Unless you’re watching SBS, one of the best things – always – about the FA Cup Final is the jubilant scenes of celebration of the winners and the unconfined misery of the losers.
It is classic football footage – the whole season’s joy, frustrations, realised ambitions and shattered dreams finally given vent and played out in the faces of players.
The post-whistle relief, the pride of the presentation, the lap of honour, the tears of the losers, the release of pent-up emotions – it’s vintage TV.
This is what the FA Cup Final is about. Rarely is it about the match itself which is often – and was again at the weekend – turgid, tight-fought borefests with neither side willing to give an inch for fear of losing.
But not if you’re watching SBS’s coverage. No, no, they reckoned cutting away from that to some washed up has-beens were more interesting than the best bit of the FA Cup Final. And Damien Lovelock. Give us a [vulgar swearword] break.
Craig ‘[even more vulgar swearword]’ Foster admits he never watches Premiership matches because it’s not ‘technically’ good enough for him. It was of course hilarious to see him then slam the final for being dull when both teams played a classic European defend-then-counter tactic.
And why the hell was Les Murray even there in London? All that way to interview Stan ‘Dogging’ Collymore? Yeah, that was money well spent...
Even Dwight Yorke didn’t hang around to watch the match with SBS. He was off as soon as he could, probably to Hugo’s and a neon-lit champagne bucket, delivered by a babe in a short skirt. Which must have beat the hell out of Skeletor destroying "Love Will Tear Us Apart".
I can understand why SBS hosted the show from Star City Casino in Sydney to put an Aussie slant on an intrinsically English FA Cup Final. But they forgot why people were actually watching.
They want to see all the joy and heartbreak of the FA Cup Final.
Not some twat still trying to be a rock star long after he’s old enough to realise it’s not going to happen. Or the opinions of Craig Foster whose 13 games with Crystal Palace somehow make him an expert.
They are not more important than the match, no matter how self-important they think they are.
Thanks SBS. You wrecked the FA Cup Final. Good work... [multiple vulgar swearwords].
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So Roar have missed out on bringing yet another Socceroo home to play in the side. First Aloisi, now Moore – both because the club can't afford them.
The press release making the latest announcement contained a telling Freudian typo – Farina was quoted saying: “We still have that marquis spot open...”
As teary-faced Farina’s attempts to bolster the side have so far repeatedly ended in disappointment, that must make him the Marquis De Sad, I guess.
Or maybe the club is just looking for a sex-obsessed, sado-masochistic French legend to fill the slot. [Insert your own hugely libellous player name here] would probably want more money than Moore and Aloisi combined though...
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There’s a new definition of ironic going into the Macquarie Dictionary: it’s a picture of the FFA logo. Just to recap, the Argentina match against the Socceroos was cancelled because the Argies wouldn’t be fielding a first choice team and that would have been unfair on fans. Apparently.
But the Socceroos not fielding a first choice team against Uruguay is absolutely fine. Apparently. Hmmm.
It is classic football footage – the whole season’s joy, frustrations, realised ambitions and shattered dreams finally given vent and played out in the faces of players.
The post-whistle relief, the pride of the presentation, the lap of honour, the tears of the losers, the release of pent-up emotions – it’s vintage TV.
This is what the FA Cup Final is about. Rarely is it about the match itself which is often – and was again at the weekend – turgid, tight-fought borefests with neither side willing to give an inch for fear of losing.
But not if you’re watching SBS’s coverage. No, no, they reckoned cutting away from that to some washed up has-beens were more interesting than the best bit of the FA Cup Final. And Damien Lovelock. Give us a [vulgar swearword] break.
Craig ‘[even more vulgar swearword]’ Foster admits he never watches Premiership matches because it’s not ‘technically’ good enough for him. It was of course hilarious to see him then slam the final for being dull when both teams played a classic European defend-then-counter tactic.
And why the hell was Les Murray even there in London? All that way to interview Stan ‘Dogging’ Collymore? Yeah, that was money well spent...
Even Dwight Yorke didn’t hang around to watch the match with SBS. He was off as soon as he could, probably to Hugo’s and a neon-lit champagne bucket, delivered by a babe in a short skirt. Which must have beat the hell out of Skeletor destroying "Love Will Tear Us Apart".
I can understand why SBS hosted the show from Star City Casino in Sydney to put an Aussie slant on an intrinsically English FA Cup Final. But they forgot why people were actually watching.
They want to see all the joy and heartbreak of the FA Cup Final.
Not some twat still trying to be a rock star long after he’s old enough to realise it’s not going to happen. Or the opinions of Craig Foster whose 13 games with Crystal Palace somehow make him an expert.
They are not more important than the match, no matter how self-important they think they are.
Thanks SBS. You wrecked the FA Cup Final. Good work... [multiple vulgar swearwords].
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So Roar have missed out on bringing yet another Socceroo home to play in the side. First Aloisi, now Moore – both because the club can't afford them.
The press release making the latest announcement contained a telling Freudian typo – Farina was quoted saying: “We still have that marquis spot open...”
As teary-faced Farina’s attempts to bolster the side have so far repeatedly ended in disappointment, that must make him the Marquis De Sad, I guess.
Or maybe the club is just looking for a sex-obsessed, sado-masochistic French legend to fill the slot. [Insert your own hugely libellous player name here] would probably want more money than Moore and Aloisi combined though...
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There’s a new definition of ironic going into the Macquarie Dictionary: it’s a picture of the FFA logo. Just to recap, the Argentina match against the Socceroos was cancelled because the Argies wouldn’t be fielding a first choice team and that would have been unfair on fans. Apparently.
But the Socceroos not fielding a first choice team against Uruguay is absolutely fine. Apparently. Hmmm.
