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Sky Sports pundits sacked

Discussion in 'General Football' started by Tony Wilkinson, Aug 26, 2020.

  1. Damo

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    Some people say Diversity, others say much needed change. Let’s be brutally honest. Sue Barker and Dawson have done remarkably well to eke out that long. The programme reminds me of a Sunday afternoon stroll in middle England after church. What if we had someone like Chris Akabusi?
     
  2. Tony Wilkinson

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    It's had it's day for sure but it's the brazen way that they are doing it, noticed our lads (sheep) took the knee yesterday....FFS STAND UP
     
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    Admittedly, I have not watched for years. But you can be sure that when the new line up is announced, it will be a very diverse one. It is just the way tv companies are going about it that irks me. They are going out of their way now to make sure they are seen to be banishing middle aged white people in favour of a more diverse set up to appease the woke brigade
     
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    I'd say its also to do with audience numbers. Soccer Saturday might have had its own little niche with middle aged white men but did it really appeal to anybody else other than the stone island/adidas wearing i was a casual 25 years ago mob? Theres a lot of shows i don't listen to as much these days such as Test Match Special or talksport due to changin faces of their presenters but i can see why they are doing it. Aiming for a different audience and advertising demographic, not me unfortunately.
     
  5. Get Rid Of It

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    In our household the younger adults prefer Soccer Saturday as they never got the chance to watch their teams(with City a very,very distant second), so that programme does have a broad appeal age-wise.
    Myself, i was down at the valley watching the Hopkin horror and Bowyerball every other week so didnt follow it that much.
     
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    I don't know if someone is having a laugh but the reports are saying Alex Scott and Jemaine Jenas. Alex Scott may be prepared as a pundit but she lacks charisma and Jenas makes Shearer look to have an amazing personality. Unless the revamp is to turn the show into something to stick on iPlayer to send you to sleep I'm not sure how those two are the basis for a significant revamp that makes it more relevant to the viewing audience.
     
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    Smashing bloke (unless your ST is directly behind him) one season was enough
     
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    I'm only guessing but how about Gareth Thomas as an outside bet
     
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    They might struggle to get a show done with him. When I was back at School in the 90's there was this national sports things where you would have an sports activity day for the whole school and part of that is some sports stars would come in, give a talk, have photo & autograph sessions and just hang out and help with the sporting activities put on that day. It would happen every year and over the years we had the likes of Roger Black, Sharon Davies and And Kris Akabusi. What was supposed to be an hour talk ended up being around 2 hours with Akabusi as he would suddenly just go off on a tangents, including acting out all of Derek Redmond's 400metre final at the Barcelona Olympics in SLOW MOTION just as an example of how you shouldn't ever quit (This being the one where his hamstring went in the back straight and he got up and with the help of his dad completed the race by hopping. So a 40 second event took about 4 minutes, when done in slow motion just the re-enactment took about 10)
     
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    He might not be too bad. I'm not the biggest rugby fan so mostly seen him on non-sporting things but he comes across ok on camera with some personality. And he certainly fulfils the 'Woke quota' as he is part of a group who gets discriminated against.....










    The Welsh :)
     
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    Thought you meant Gingers!
     
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    The Stenhousemuir FC Ultras are called the Kris Akabusi Loyals.
     
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  14. Nottsy

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    Why?
     
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    No idea.

    Great chatting, must do it again sometime.
     
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    Hope that comes up on a pub quiz after Covid. Could be the tie break question.
     
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