ITV going for the hat trick!

God two posts with football related titles one after another! Well this one concerns ITV's coverage of the UEFA champions league final. We only have digital TV so I had to watch the final on ITV. Judging by ITV's cock up earlier this year with the Everton Liverpool match where they cut to the adverts during the game at pretty much the point where Everton scored you would have thought they would learn the lesson regarding technical issues, but oh no! The coverage on Wednesday night was littered with technical issues! Firstly the sound levels kept changing constantly, and when interviews where taking place there were echos. Secondly and more importantly they lost the score and clock from the match up until about the 70th minute, which was a right pain in the arse!! Mainly because I had no idea what time was left but also because people arriving late had no idea of the score. My brother came home during the middle of the first half thinking it was still 0-0 as there was no score on the screen! Also images kept freezing and you could only tell what was happening as the commentary was still in time. Maybe these issues where out of their control but hearing people who watched sky say there was no such problem, which makes me think it was ITV up to its old tricks. Anyway ITV go for the hat trick of major match cock ups this weekend with the FA cup final! I wonder what kind of issue they can come up with! Maybe they could just show the crowd for the full 90 minutes and not the match, therefore having to let the viewer guess what is going on from just the reaction of the fans? We'll just have to wait and see!

Another thing that annoys me is ITV bias! On Wednesday night for the duration of the match ITV was quickly swapped with MUTV, its the only way you can explain the man u cheer leading squad that was on! Sheringham is possibly the worst for this! They usually try to make out that everyone in Britain will support the British team, this is a nice idea but it isn't the reality, which was even said once during the commentary, so at least they have realised! The thing that was the worst was in the build up they only concentrated on Man U, like they were the only ones that could win it and it was their destiny, not giving Barcelona any time at all! I'm not stupid enough to say this only happens with Man U matches as it happens with Liverpool matches all the time as well and as a Liverpool fan some of the stuff they say makes me feel nauseous! Things like "the kop are like one mind" and all that bulls**t, we know you are trying to build up the British team but come on give us a break!