Archive from June, 2010

I’d rather have listened to James Corden

28 Jun 2010: Those who can, do. Those who can’t get a cushy job in the TV studio. Isn’t it odd that Danny Baker’s few minutes on Match of the Day became for some people one of the most abiding memories of the World Cup? It wasn’t as if we didn’t already know what a strange, detached bubble the TV people live in, but to see them thrown into such stark relief was jaw-dropping. They were so uncomfortable to be made to look so inarticulate. And it matters. David Hepworth writes that: “Obviously MOTD was not responsible for yesterday’s mugging [by Germany] but it does set the critical climate in which football is judged in this country. In this it has been responsible [...]

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