Heroes & Villains, the Aston Villa fanzine
Heroes & Villains => Heroes Discussion => Topic started by: Holtenderinthesky on January 08, 2011, 11:14:28 PM
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Once again after being forced to watch ITV I am disillusioned with the paucity of their football highlights.
How can they get it so wrong? The punditry is so basic it'd make Joe Cole look insightful and the analysis is rushed, the games are cut too short and the commentary sounds like it has been super imposed after the event. How long is their contact with the FA for?
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Biggest match of day, real giantkilling, gets about 5 minutes, then 5 more of inane punditry.
It really is crap from start to finish. They're even using the same shit graphics as last season.
There should be legislation to stop them covering football.
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I just don't like it. Appreciate they've got a lot of games to get through so probably have to shorten the highlights of each game.
Still don't like it though.
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Hate the graphics. Really cheapen the cup.
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my 11 yr old who came with us sitting here gutted that they hav egiven us fuck all coverage, fuck em great atmosphere and a gritty win!
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I find it very ammusing. The highlight for me was when the commentator said "Neil Mellor headed in Wednesday's 2nd. But you'll just have to take my word for it as the camera man missed it."
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Its a terrible programme... dont look like its in HD neither
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That clown Tyldesley kept saying A'brighton during our game too!.
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WTF? It's just got worse. NO post match analysis on Villa? Tossers.
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Its a terrible programme... dont look like its in HD neither
Was just thinking the same - no way that is HD compared to the clarity you get on Sky
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Some of the camera angles made my eyes hurt
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Its a terrible programme... dont look like its in HD neither
Was just thinking the same - no way that is HD compared to the clarity you get on Sky
Its a terrible programme... dont look like its in HD neither
Was just thinking the same - no way that is HD compared to the clarity you get on Sky
It looked no better than my crappy Internet stream earlier
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They're even using the same shit graphics as last season.
What on earth...
I'm not even going to ask how you remember stuff like that...
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They're even using the same shit graphics as last season.
What on earth...
I'm not even going to ask how you remember stuff like that...
Because it was mentioned enough about the shitty comic strip looks last year. They obviously can't afford to change them yearly any more.
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as bad as the bbc covering the bdo darts... "i know what would be a great camera angle, lets take a camera shot of a black background as the player lifts the dart and just about catch the flight, and then show nothing of where the dart actually hit the board!"...
genius...
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I didn't think it would be worth starting a new thread about it, but whilst we are discussing crap coverage this is the match report from the BBC -
Aston Villa safely negotiated a testing FA Cup tie against Sheffield United.
New signing Kyle Walker ran from just inside the United half before side-stepping Rob Kozluk and slotting past Blades goalkeeper Steve Simonsen.
Just past the half hour Ashley Young's dinked cross was expertly volleyed in by Marc Albrighton to make it 2-0.
In the second half Carlos Cuellar gave away a penalty - converted by Jamie Ward - but Stiliyan Petrov's injury-time goal made the game safe for Villa.
Walker was making his debut after joining Villa on loan from Spurs and he took only nine minutes to make an impact as he galloped away from a series of tackles before wrong-footing Simonsen with his shot.
Villa slipped into the bottom three after a home defeat by Sunderland in midweek, but the visitors showed no sign of their Premier League malaise when Albrighton extended their lead.
Young burst down the left before crossing to the far post and Albrighton crashed in his volley.
The early stages of the second half brought some hope for the Blades when Lee Williamson was fouled by Cuellar inside the box and Ward thumped his penalty down the middle of the goal.
Walker's trick on the edge of his own area almost proved costly when he was hurried into a pass which ended up at Daniel Bogdanovic's feet but Villa goalkeeper Brad Friedel came to the rescue.
With 25 minutes left Villa manager Houllier made a double substitution, introducing Petrov and Stewart Downing for Barry Bannan and Robert Pires.
Petrov should have extended Villa's lead with two chances in two minutes.
He was first put through by Downing only to be denied by Simonsen, before the Bulgarian's header from a corner bounced just the wrong side of the post.
But Petrov made amends for his earlier miss with a fine finish following a one-two with the impressive Albrighton in injury time.
Spot what important bit of information is missing.
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Jeez, I know Ash huffed off down the tunnel in a hurry but surely even the BBC spotted it?
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Can they not use the same gantry positions for the cameras as the Beeb/Sky do? A lot of the games seemed to be at shit angles or on zoom-cam.
I thought Damon would have sorted this out by now.
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I noticed that error in the Beeb report, piss poor.
But, of course, never as bad as ITV.
I tuned in yesterday to watch the big kick off to their 3rd round coverage, the Arse/Leeds tie. No surprise that they used the same titles as last year and equally no surprise that they stalled 20 seconds in and had to be restarted. Cut to the Albion gonk looking utterly bereft. From Daybreak to ITV football coverage, surely this sort of cruelty is against the Geneva convention?
I laughed like a drain.
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Don't like Chiles. Too light hearted and not serious enough with my football coverage.
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No i must say it wasn't very good ITV coverage of the FA Cup MOTD and Sky give far better service.
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I rarely complain about MoTD purely because I remember how bad ITV's coverage can be.
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Is it me or does Andy Townsend look thinner now than when he played for us. Looks a bit ill.
Shocking coverage as usual too
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To cover the 3rd round in 1.5 hours of highlights is always going to be difficult however ITV get it wrong everytime. I honestly don't know why they bother with football. They have the first call , in England, on FA Cup and CL games and they make a piss poor job of both.
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ITV have always been useless with football coverage.
I mean Gary Newbon actually built a career at ITV, after being made to look stupid on more than one occasion by the likes of Jimmy Greaves & Brian Clough.
ITVs most memorable coverage for me, May 82 apart
was the Dancing Footballers compilation they used to put together, which I think they started at the 1970 World Cup, to the tune of Gimme Dat Ting, by The Pipkins???
Someone might have footage of that .
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They commented on Diouf's taunting of Jamie Mackie without showing it. Remarkable.
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ITV's usual bumper big bag of bollocks.
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They commented on Diouf's taunting of Jamie Mackie without showing it. Remarkable.
[/quoteThey commented on Diouf's taunting of Jamie Mackie without showing it. Remarkable.
And when they did they exonerated the little word removed and blamed Warnock instead for his reaction! They said that Diouf "liked to wind people up" and that Warnock shouldn't rise to the bait. If spitting in people's faces and attacking people who are lying on the ground with a broken leg is "winding people up then my goodness what next? I suppose that Hitler bloke was a bit of a wind up merchant too. I hate the way footballers get away with EVERYTHING. ITV should have had the balls to slam the horriblepiece of scum for what he did but they didn't. I hate ITV. Rubbish coverage.
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I recorded it and watched it this morning. Took about half an hour having FF'd through the adverts and tedious post mortems.
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ITV's coverage was very poor last night. I was expecting them to analyse our game given that our last captain to lift a trophy was on the panel but no, that was too much to ask. I also picked up on how Townsend looked. I hope he isn't ill.
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I also picked up on how Townsend looked. I hope he isn't ill.
Are you sure it wasn't just John Hartson making him look thin?
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Three ad breaks in the 30 minute intro to the game today. That's another thing the BBC has over this load of muppets.
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And also...is anyone else sick and tired of those KIA Kevin, Ian & Andrew sponsor bumpers already? Not a bad basic idea, but clearly by a copywriter who knows nothing about lads' footy banter.
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Same old Mancs always cheating. Berbatov dives for pen 30 secs in.
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ITV cameraman switched away from referee in real time just as he was about to show card to Gerrard.
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I wish Clive Twatsley would just describe the action on the pitch instead of talking about players as though he was best mates with them.
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I also picked up on how Townsend looked. I hope he isn't ill.
Are you sure it wasn't just John Hartson making him look thin?
Well that's a good point though it was good to see Hartson looking shall we say like he's 'eating heartily' given the health problems he's had.
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Nice to see Townsend thought Diouf having a go at a QPR player with a double fractured leg on a stretcher was something to joke about. :o
Sure if it was ManYoo or Chelsea he'd have a black armband on.
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I also picked up on how Townsend looked. I hope he isn't ill.
Are you sure it wasn't just John Hartson making him look thin?
Well that's a good point though it was good to see Hartson looking shall we say like he's 'eating heartily' given the health problems he's had.
That's true enough. Brain, testicular and another organ cancer, wasn't it?
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I also picked up on how Townsend looked. I hope he isn't ill.
Are you sure it wasn't just John Hartson making him look thin?
Well that's a good point though it was good to see Hartson looking shall we say like he's 'eating heartily' given the health problems he's had.
That's true enough. Brain, testicular and another organ cancer, wasn't it?
Brain and testicular anyway, not sure about the third organ. I was amazed to see him on the show and talking about taking up management! Fair play to him, can't have been an easy few years.
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Co commentator (Jim Beglin?), "well here's Ryan Babel with a chance to show the new manager what he can do.") WTF? As if Dalglish has just landed from another planet and not just stepped down from the Anfield directors box from where he has seen EVERYTHING. Him and Tyldsley really are a couple of tits.
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There was a renegade hair hanging from King Kenny's left nostril in the pre- match interview.
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"Just to spice things up, Michael Owen is imminent......"
Sod off, Clive.
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I also picked up on how Townsend looked. I hope he isn't ill.
Are you sure it wasn't just John Hartson making him look thin?
Well that's a good point though it was good to see Hartson looking shall we say like he's 'eating heartily' given the health problems he's had.
That's true enough. Brain, testicular and another organ cancer, wasn't it?
Brain and testicular anyway, not sure about the third organ. I was amazed to see him on the show and talking about taking up management! Fair play to him, can't have been an easy few years.
his lungs aswell, i think it was similar to what lance armstrong had, which i think was mentioned at the time.
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And who the fuck is "Alec" Ferguson? ???
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and what is a quarter back pass? FFS this is football. Association football that has enough phrases to describe a pass or two!
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Surprised that when the Liverpool fans were singing to Owen "Where were you Istanbul?", Tyldesley didn't take the opportunity to mention that he was there That Night.
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I was particularly unimpressed with the highlights of one game last night where the cameraman couldn't keep up with the action as the ball was moved slowly forward and missed the resulting goal. Pathetic.
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Dalghish looked like he had aged 15 years after that match.. ;-@
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And who the fuck is "Alec" Ferguson? ???
Aaargh, this gets on my tits like you wouldn't believe! He's got a fucking x at the end of it! It's Alex! Alex Alex Alex Alex Alex! Not Alec!
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Leeds Untied was listed as one of the teams in the draw, apparently.
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Leeds Untied was listed as one of the teams in the draw, apparently.
Sohcking!!! :-)
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Missed the goals yesterday. Has anybody got a link to the highlights?? Cheers
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Missed the goals yesterday. Has anybody got a link to the highlights?? Cheers
http://www.itv.com/sport/football/facup/matchhighlights/
They can't even get the fecking score right.
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I was particularly unimpressed with the highlights of one game last night where the cameraman couldn't keep up with the action as the ball was moved slowly forward and missed the resulting goal. Pathetic.
In the goals round up of the highlights, they actually missed a goal in one of the games, as the cross came in from the wing, saying
'The camera man couldn't keep up.'
Amateurish.
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While we are having a good moan about what is served up to us on screens', what was that FA Cup promotion advert which was put on the screen before the Sheffield game?
I estimate the images to be as follows Alec Ferguson six times Trevor Brookin five times Charlie George four times Sir Stanley Matthews three times a huge fat fucker claiming to be Neville Southall three times copper on a white horse three times Matteo three times old bloke who either was or was doubling for the bald bloke Benny Hill used to pat on the head three times old lady with white hair included for PC reasons twice Ricky Villa once. Aston Villa? Not a glimpse.
That and the Star Wars music making my ears bleed tested my love of the game to the limit.
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In the latter stages of today's draw I thought they had all the team's numbers up.
When Villa were drawn out against number 15 this was nowhere to be seen.
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accorind to that site we only won 2-1 lol
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just noticed that as well.
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And who the fuck is "Alec" Ferguson? ???
It's the preferred pronunciation.
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At least they didn't include any commercials half way through the game or maybe they did?