Monday 29 June 2009

Today At Wimbledon

Oi, BBC. Stop changing channels
It messes with Sky+ and some of us like to record the tennis to watch when we get home. Are you saying that no one will tune in to the Murray match unless it's on BBC1? Don't be stupid - the viewers aren't; you expect us to work the red button with the skill of a great lover, we can find the word Wimbledon on the EPG, thank you.

Oi, BBC. Shut up about the British
Precious minutes wasted all last week on Today At Wimbledon on the "debate" about the state of British tennis. When the pundits are clearly fed up with answering questions about it and Inverdale can't even muster any enthusiasm for talking about it, don't you think that maybe the viewer might be bored shitless? At one point Tim Henman had his head in his hands, crying "No, no!" for crissakes.

Actually... Oi, BBC. Shut up about a lot of stuff
The roof; Cliff Richard; grunting; talking endlessly about how nobody's talking about Federer (course they bloody are); and non-specialists saying that if Murray wins, it'll be devalued by the absence of Nadal (it's not like he's never beaten him - and he has beaten him this year).

In fact... BBC, just shut up
Mark Petchey: "It's not only Safina. There's been a bit of a trend of players asking people to pronounce their names in new ways recently." No, Petchey, they're asking you to pronounce it properly, you dick.

Except for Pat Cash
I switched over to the Lleyton Hewitt match just as Cash was saying "leaner and fitter this year". Presumably he was talking about his compatriot, but he was speaking over a shot of a Beth Ditto lookalike draped in an Aussie flag.

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