[TV] What is up with the host production from the Brasil

[Bladders]

No replay of the Chilean 3rd goal then.

 

[Juan Albion]

Does it? The NFL is DULL. Anyone who has ever watched it can see that. Americans don't go go watch the game, they go to eat enormous hotdogs and laze about for hours. It's shit.its totally bone. NBA? Netball for men. Shit game. Baseball? Rounders. Utter Bellend.

The games are tedious and full of commercials. Letting crews used to that dross is like asking camera men who normally shoot low budget porn movies with slow mo shots of jizz spurting all over some bird to produce an epic like Lawrence of Arabia.

There's always loads of NFL apologists and assorted liggers on who buy all that yank nonsense. They're wrong...you're wrong. Just WATCH THE COVERAGE and think on.

There's a good reason that American sports aren't p,aged anywher else...it's because they're totally pony.

Typical comments of someone who doesn't understand the sports he's talking about. Leighgull, you sound exactly like some of the yanks who say football is like watching paint dry.

Anyway, perhaps they are using their camera crews who are used to covering ice hockey, which makes football look like chess when it comes to pace.

 

[luge]

What did we expect? The TV crews are ALL Americans used to crowd shots and mass high fives on the benches because the "action" on the pitch is so ****ing dull.

Not true. Vast array of nations at HBS, mainly european. Most of whom do football week in week out.

 

[GingerBeerMan]

No replay of the Chilean 3rd goal then.

Came to post that, shambles.

 

[trueblue]

What did we expect? The TV crews are ALL Americans used to crowd shots and mass high fives on the benches because the "action" on the pitch is so ****ing dull.

If you're used to filming the NFL or the fricking rounders the pace of soccer must give them nosebleeds.

Three of the Match directors are British and among the best in the business. Two or three are German and a couple are French. The crews working on their matches are all hand-picked by them i.e the same ones they would have working with them when they, for instance, direct the Champions League Final. So you're barking up entirely the wrong tree if you don't like the coverage.

I understand the goal-line technology replay is a FIFA edict. The other stuff the OP moaned about... can't say I've noticed it but who knows, maybe it's just not that easy to televise a World Cup in an under-prepared Brazil to the standards we've become used to in Europe.

 

[Vicar!]

To clear a couple of points. Flags are not banned, but can only be displayed from your seat, not from the front of the enclosure.
At Spain v Holland today. Loads of tickets available, the difference is the locals simply cannot afford them.

 

[trueblue]

The compulsory goal-line technology replay has now been dropped, other than where it's relevant.

 

[Leighgull]

Three of the Match directors are British and among the best in the business. Two or three are German and a couple are French. The crews working on their matches are all hand-picked by them i.e the same ones they would have working with them when they, for instance, direct the Champions League Final. So you're barking up entirely the wrong tree if you don't like the coverage.

I understand the goal-line technology replay is a FIFA edict. The other stuff the OP moaned about... can't say I've noticed it but who knows, maybe it's just not that easy to televise a World Cup in an under-prepared Brazil to the standards we've become used to in Europe.

Well. If that's true then there really is no excuse. Is there.

 

[Leighgull]

Typical comments of someone who doesn't understand the sports he's talking about. Leighgull, you sound exactly like some of the yanks who say football is like watching paint dry.

Anyway, perhaps they are using their camera crews who are used to covering ice hockey, which makes football look like chess when it comes to pace.

I've read your insights over some years now and understand, against all the evidence that its shit, that you like US teamsport.

You have to believe me here. I've lived and worked in America, I was part of the huge interest wave we had in the 80s when the raiders and the patriots were uber fashionable over here. I've watched American football, the world series and NBA live and on TV and I STILL. Think it's turd.

You do me an immense disservice to assume I know nothing of these sports. I just find them INCREDIBLY dull. Always have. Even when I pretended to like them.

 

[Green Cross Code Man]

Somehow Michel Platini has become the devil incarnate for being against goal line technology. Not for me. After watching the Collinni masterclass on Sky TV I am a convert along with Graeme Souness and Jamie Carragher for the 5th official on the goal line. He gives much more assistance to the ref than a very expensive system that only tells us the ball has crossed the line.
The system is 30,000 plus pounds to install and at least 7,000 pounds PER Game to run. It was used 3 times last season only one of them was controversial.
The Premiership is the only league that is awash with money. That is the real reason that Platini is against it's implementation. You never get the truth in the English press. Platini is more than happy for us to have it he just doesn't want it imposed on the rest of Europe. Seems fair enough to me.

Why on earth would it cost 7000 pounds to run each game? Surely it only needs electricity?

 

[Acker79]

The compulsory goal-line technology replay has now been dropped, other than where it's relevant.

Thank feck for that.

 

[trueblue]

Well. If that's true then there really is no excuse. Is there.

I don't know. Apart from the goal-line technology the coverage seems fine to me.

 

[Leighgull]

I don't know. Apart from the goal-line technology the coverage seems fine to me.

It's getting better. I'll grant you that. The first three games were dire though.

 

[nwgull]

Seems fine to me too. Nothing will ever be as bad as the Dutch/Belgium coverage of Euro 2000. They were obsessed with slow mo crowd reaction replays after every incident, to the extent that you'd often miss an exciting counter attack after the keeper had made a save.