Quite a concerted effort by the BBC to remove some of those “hideously white” faces that so offend bleeding liberal hearts. First this…
Match Of The Day needs to become more diverse with fewer white men on its panel of pundits, the BBC has said. Days after announcing its dramas would include more black and gay actors to reflect modern Britain, the corporation turned its sights on sports shows. Danny Cohen, the BBC’s director of television, singled out BBC1’s Saturday football highlights programme for fresh criticism. He said: ‘If we have five people on a panel show, it shouldn’t be five white men. I think the same thing of Match Of The Day. It’s a very diverse sport and it shouldn’t be like that.’
Sol Campbell has claimed he would have been “England captain for more than 10 years” had he been born white.
Institutional racism everywhere…
Funny how many nonwhite players there are, how few managers or pundits. Of course only the master race should be allowed to comment or manage. People like David who represent all that we hold dear.
There is really no point entering into a sensible debate about this subject with a person who posts a stupid bit of abuse like that.
And having seen your next post (on Something for the Weekend) I have to conclude you are little but a trolling bigot. You really must learn not to criticise others when you are a damn site worse.
The rebranded trolls are best ignored, quite right.
Point out that racism exists, get called racist. Such a myopic, childish mentality from the likes of Demonseed (aka The Men in White Coats, Doris, Conspiracy Theory Central, KingStupid, and countless others).
Best not to humour him, as he’s proven repeatedly to be incapable of constructing cogent arguments and resorting instead to straw man ones as well as name-calling. A bit like Scott, in fact. Hmm…
The BBC – so institutionally racist it’s never even given a mention to ’12 Years a Slave’.
Sick to death of having slavery shoved down my throat when there’s so much ignored history of whites also having been enslaved – especially by followers of the bBC’s beloved “religion of peace”, surprise surprise!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barbary_Slave_Trade
So, the BBC are saying that people should be selected, specifically, because of their race, sexual preferences and gender. Correct me if I am wrong, but isn’t that ‘racism’, ‘sexisim’ and ‘homophilia’. However, as we all know, in the new orthodoyx only WASPS are racist, sexist or homophobic.
Next week I am expecting a drama about Nelson Mandella – played by a ginger haired Scottish woman with a broad Aberdeen accent – because she is best for the role of course.
Positive discrimination = discrimination.
If I want to employ someone I want to get the best person for the job. I certain do not want the BBC or Harriet Dromey (nee Hateman aka the Nonce’s Friend) to tell me whom.
After all shouldn’t one judge a person by their character not their skin colour – or religion….
I understand that Mr Dromey is quite enthusiastic about more black, gay drama.
He’s very keen on the BBC, in more ways than one!
Haha, is the word big one of the words you might want to use? As in Bigbc?
I actually agree with him in one respect.
The whole MOTD format requires a complete revamp and they could do with dragging in some more contemporary ex-players and managers to contribute. It is very dated. Compare what that programme does with what goes on on Sky for instance, where the format has been adjusted consistently over time for the better.
Who they actually get on to comment feeds off that re-vamp in my view, and should be based on merit.
As an aside, I seem to recall that they do get Clarke Carlisle and Garth Crooks on from time to time anyway, and they seem pretty good and articulate. Haven’t they also got Thierry Henri coming too, at huge expense I dare say?
.. and why limit it to the actual programme, why not have more black commentators around the grounds too? Just out of interest, I wonder how many black sporting journalists there are out there as a whole (print media as well as TV)? To be honest I can’t think of very many.
Some fair points there Nofan. I seldom watch MotD these days to be honest. When I have done there is an air of complacency and staleness about the whole thing. There is also a BBC house style of liberal smugness that permeates the show and afflicts Gary Lineker and particularly Garth Crooks.
If they really want to tick several minority boxes how about a violent, lefty, ethnic with mental health problems like Stan Collymore?
On second thoughts no thanks.
I tend to agree – but isn’t the fact that the majority of pundits are retired players and commentators – as this generation of ethnic minority footballers move on to managership and ‘meejah’ post footbal careers won’t they be rambling on illiterately and incoherently just like the present crowd of quarter wits who pontificate without end on TV now.
Pundits and journalists are a product of the overall sports-economy. Parchuting people in to meet race quotas is doomed, if they are crap people will notice, but since when has that bothered the BBC with its ‘unique funding’ .
Anyway, on a similar line of reasoning – have the BBC been complaining that there are too many black people represented in the music industry? Shouldn’t we have a few token Burt Bacharach fans and James Last adherents in safari-suits crowbarred into MOBO ceremonies.
I have always enjoyed Match of the Day on a Saturday night and I still do. I’m neither black or gay but I clearly must be suffering from acute sadomasochistic tendencies.
I’m a Fulham supporter…
Personally I think MOTD should be scrapped altogether as personally, I think football is pile of kack.
In the old days programme announcers and co-ordinators were selected on that politically incorrect method of talent or competence.
I see no reason why this method should not be continued.
Absolutely, anything else is pure PC tokenism, be it homosexuals, women, the disabled or ethnic minorities. Absolutely no one has any problem with any individual getting anywhere on merit and merit alone.
Can those who have attained such positions through such tokenism not see that they have been ‘used’ ?
I re-post this as an example of such bBC tokenism.
And regardless of what the bbc might say, we are still a white country and I personally want to watch programmes with white people in them. If I wanted to watch ethnics, I’d go and live elsewhere, so why can’t those who want such things do as such?
Sport show panels should be and I think already are roughly proportionate to the amount of black Brits that there are. No more, no less. Simple! Nothing to fix.
This is just another heap of bBC PC cobblers, as everyone knows.
The BBC have three main football shows: MOTD, Final Score and The Football League show. Final Score invariably has a female presenter and Garth Crooks is usually in attendance, plus there is often another black player i.e. not a white man in sight. The Football League show is presented by Manish Bhasin, who is what the BBC term “Asian” (and, incidentally, has a diploma in Broadcast Journalism from Cardiff University, that perennial friend of the BBC). That looks like 2 out of 3 football programmes that are not “hideously white”. Sol Campbell’s claims are ludicrous – one can only presume that a racialiser has been winding him up. The reality is that during his international career there were 12 England captains. He was one of them, as was Paul Ince (who captained for quite a while). That makes 2 black captains out of 12 or 16.7%; the general black population is a little over 3%, meaning an over-representation by a factor of five.
Facts eh, Ian – aren’t they a bugger.
Match Of The Day needs as serious revamp. This whole chummy, giggling BS we have had to endure under Lineker is unwatchable, regardless of the guests, and would be if the guests were black, white or Venusian.
I was never a Gary Neville fan when he was playing but he’s been a revelation as a Sky pundit. His experience means he can tell the audience not only what has happened, but why it has happened. MotD has rarely given such real insights into the game. Jamie Carragher is OK too, but the “boookch, loookch, coookch” accent is hard to concentrate on.
Surely though the main problem is too many of our footballers of all colours are as dumb as a rock. I remember seeing an interview with Thierry Henry and Sol Campbell after an Arsenal match years ago. One couldn’t string a sentence together, failed to make a coherent point, and barely had a grasp of English whatsoever, and the other one was Thierry Henry.
I doubt he’s black enough for the race industry but with Rio Ferdinand coming to the end of his career perhaps he could be media trained to perform a similar role for the BBC. He’s not the sharpest knife in the box, but perhaps his experience could bring insights.
Failing that Clarence Seedorf was very good during recent BBC tournament appearances, and I doubt he’ll be Milan manager very long. Would he be prepared to travel to Salford once a week, when for the rest of us once in a lifetime seems excessive?
Rio Ferdinand has already been signed up by the BBC for their World Cup coverage (see http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/football/25250691). Alan Hansen is due to leave MOTD at the end of the season – one can imagine that the BBC press release has already been prepared: “Fresh from his success at Brazil 2014, the BBC is proud to announce the appointment of Rio Ferdinand as the new face of MOTD”. Incidentally, in the link above note the reference to “Greg Dyke’s Football Association Commission” – former BBC Chairman, progenitor of the deeply offensive “hideously white” phrase and one time generous financial benefactor of the BBC’s political wing (aka “The Labour Party”). Funny how the same couple of dozen names keep coming up over and over again.
Replacing Alan Hansen with Rio Ferdinand? What a joke!
But then again, Ferdinand’s as sneakily racist as Diane Abbott, so no wonder the bBC want him aboard!
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/football/article-2173794/Rio-Ferdinand-denies-racist-Twitter-attack-Ashley-Cole.html
Thanks for uploading this post David. I am sick to death with putting the TV on and hearing ‘not enough black, gay, Muslim, Cling-ons or lesbians on TV’ etc. It’s time that this blatant Marxist propaganda behemoth is dismantled.
I’m afraid Sol Campbell simply wasn’t good enough to captain England. Get over it you big baby and stop playing the race card!
I think we can all look back at stages in our life when we didn’t get what we felt we deserved: “If it was not for [x] then I would have been [y]”. Most of us just get over it.
Of course in the post Macpherson age if you are black (or a “minority”) you have an off the peg, ready to wear explanation for not getting what you feel entitled to: “I am black and this is a racist country”.
This will always produce nods of approval from chin stroking progressives in the BBC, publically financed think tanks and Guardian readers.
It brings together three of the strands of modern progressive (sic) values: the presence of racism in whites, a sense of grievance and a belief in entitlement.
If you dismiss it as childish sulking you are labelled a racist. And so it goes…
But they`ll be entitled to head coverings…imagine playing in a full burqa?
Should be fun…but the half-time executions and floggings might be “disappointing”.
Hope they all turn out in flatcaps and bobble hats, and refuse to head that horrid muddy ball!
Way to go Moyes….might win if we insist on headscarves and turbans for the opposition.
Not , that I watch any Bbc TV PC drama`s , but you know what`s going to be so predictable & ramped up 200% from now on.The good guys ,n black boyz, from the hood , baddies evil white racists ,the police detective , a sort of Julian Clary type , & the hero will always get the (white ) girl .There I have written all their drama for the next 10 years or so .Wouldn`t happen in Russia though .
At least Campbell was selected for the team a lot. Matt LeTissier, considered by many as one of the best pure goalscorers in English football history, only earned a handful of caps probably because he played for Southampton instead of one of the ‘big’ sides. Did he ever cry about this, or attempt to claim the FA was prejudiced against Southampton or his homeland of Guernsey? No, because he wasn’t a massive crybaby unlike Campbell.
Been the lament of many gifted individuals (Tony Currie. Frank Worthington, Stan Bowles, etc.). It’s a great shame for Matt “Le God” was a class act and deserved better(and this is coming form a Pompey supporter).
Still, I’ll have to carry on the rant on the Biased FA website….
I agree-and can I add Duncan McKenzie,
Glenn Hoddle too whilst we`re at it?
I`m afraid that the likes of Keegan and Bryan Robson started the rot…and Keane , Suarez have finished the game in my opinion.
By all means.
Then there were the mercurial talents of Alan Hudson…..
Or even Steve Bull.
Sol has a book coming out, I think that’s the main reason for his comments. The BBC are only too happy to publicize him.
So aren’t they allowed to ask Garth Crooks “What did you think of that Rummenigge?”
IIRC Campbell was never the captain at Arsenal neither even though he was one of the ‘Invincibles.’
Perhaps Arsène Wenger is a racist too? Or perhaps Campbell was unfortunate to play for a team where better candidates were available? Like Vieira, Henri and Gallas.
Bbc breakfast has shown an extract of a Sol Campbell interview, which is rather revealing.
In his own words, he was so brilliant as a player, had such a wonderful charisma, I was left in awe, waiting for him to walk on water!
If I gave my own version upon myself, to be broadcast to the nation, I’d never get over the shame of it.
In a way I’m sure Cambell never intended, that interview totally destroys any shred of credibility he ever had.
Even the idiots at albbeba must surely see that too?
The Great God Sport is dying on its arse.
Hardly any lads who don`t play at some level give a toss about football any more…the Team GB bollox ends up in loads of bored disaffected kids(especially girls) keeping well clear of the drugs, the roasts and the addled competitions that seem more like Rollerball than any likeness to what once was a fine thing to watch.
The BBC need to send it out to subscription-and put the likes of Shearer and Lineker off the payroll, and let the sadsacks and gutbuckets pay to piss it all up the wall in their ever-expanding branded shirts.
Sport has to go…go and play, support your local pub team…but leave the likes of Rooney with IOUs, for they`re leaching the nations economy with their parasitic antics.
In what other line of work would a Suarez or a Fergie be regarded as “role models”?
Football was buried with Tom Finney!
well i was going tom have a long rant about this topic but i wont,this is all i have to say,the bbc should put a logo on all there premises and job adverts from now on saying= no dogs,no whites,no christians.
Having read this I believed it was very enlightening.
I appreciate you finding the time and energy to put this information together.
I once again find myself spending a significant amount of
time both reading and commenting. But so what, it was still worthwhile!
I don’t care who the football pundits are ,as long as they are articulate , entertaining and know their football .
A vast improvement on what we have now !!