Football Focus Watch

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[Pete3206]

I like FF

[paulcomben]

I like FF

OK. But for what reasons?

[eamonn]

The presenter Dan has no spunk about him at all.

[Hillbilly]

It used to be part of the long ago and far away Saturday experience - watch football focus, grab a bacon sarnie, head off for the bus and away you go. Now that the least likely time for a match is 3pm on Saturday, it has no place.

[Chinchilla Bathhouse]

I think it would have a place if it wasn't unmitigated drivel.  Haven't watched it in ages, for a long time I've considered it the most inane and insipid football programme on the box, it's sort of like watching Newsround or an episode of Blue Peter where they get the UK keepy-uppy champion on to show us all how to kick.   It's even more Top Four obsessed than MOTD.  Anyway, I'm glad we never feature on it, it's always the kiss of death when we do - you can guarantee that the day they do a feature on one of our players he'll get sent off/break his leg and we'll lose about six-nil. 

I would like to see an intelligent Saturday morning programme previewing the weekend fixtures though, I think there is a place for that.  I'd have a panel of journalists and broadcasters (ie. people who speak in sentences as opposed to ex-footballers), even coverage of every game, and then there'd be a whimsical piece at the end (eg. one of the panel smashing Alan Green's teeth down his throat with the Simod Cup, or breaking into David O'Leary's house and shitting in his bed.  Something heart-warming. A bit like That's Life used to do).

[Pete3206]

I like FF

OK. But for what reasons?

Firstly, it's a Saturday lunchtime comfort blanket. It's always there for football news and highlights from the previous week. Plus, they always seem to hold the programme at different grounds and you get info on what's going on at that particular stadium (they did an excellent one at VP last season). They also do features on lower league teams as well which I find interesting.
There will always be a concentrated focus on the leading teams, because the top of the Premier League is where the interest is from a mass TV audience perspective.

[PeterWithesShin]

Essential viewing as a kid as it was one of the very few football programmes on TV. Last few times i've watched it has been pretty crap. Maybe it always was though, we just didn't care as there was sod all else to watch.

[cdward]

This week the show was in Camp Bastion, Afghanistan. David Cameron was there and was asked how he thought Villa were doing. He gave a simple assessment that we had probably expected to win at Fulham,  Man U was always a difficult game,  but he was hoping that we would get something from Stoke and went on to predict a 2-0 Villa win. He also said that with Prince William as a Villa fan we ought to be ok. He spoke as a normal Villa fan as he referred to Villa as "we". 
He came across as a genuine fan.
So we got a mention this week.

[paulcomben]

@AVFCOfficial: Fabian Delph's strike against Southampton  is up for BBC Goal of the Month for December. You can vote tonight on MOTD2 from 10.25pm. #AVFC

Possibly wrong thread, but stunned with surprise.

[eamonn]

Did Fowler and Savage shuffle uneasily in their seats and try and excuse their homophobic actions from yesteryear on this weekend's programme? Something online I read seems to suggest that they did but FF isn't available on the i-player unfortunately.

[FrankyH]

Fowler looked like he was going to start laughing.

[lovejoy]

Did Fowler and Savage shuffle uneasily in their seats and try and excuse their homophobic actions from yesteryear on this weekend's programme? Something online I read seems to suggest that they did but FF isn't available on the i-player unfortunately.

Yes I caught it and you couldn't ask for a better week for these two to be on. Both tried to sweep their apparent homophobic traits in the dim and distant past. Worth a watch if you can get to see it.
Savage was referring to someone's book (I missed whose) but claimed to not recollect the incident although he didn't deny it. Draw your own conclusions.

[eamonn]

Only going from a report on the FF programme but Savage seemed to attribute the negative quote on him to a book by Le Saux when it's from the actual Times article he wrote this week where he named Savage.

Ironic that Savage should downplay the remark as being sensationalist-fodder by an ex-pro to sell his book when in his article Le Saux mentions how Fowler brushes off his horrible actions towards Le Saux in his (Fowler's) own book.

[Clampy]

Robbie Savage is just what he is, an absolute twat. A limited footballer and now it seems a limited pundit.