Carling Cup Highlights starting NOW on ITV1

[See-Goals]

Dunno if we will feature but worth a look...

 

[Horton's halftime iceberg]

Get Newcastle of now, this is the Souwth of England

 

[SNOOBS]

And main game looks like the fascinating affair between Spurs and Newcastle

great

 

[Ice Man]

Pathetic isn't it? Even Sky Sports News have this game as the main headline. Total joke.

 

[Bluejuice]

This programme is an hour long. If this match is STILL on in the second half of the programme I will be KICKING OFF

 

[footychick]

They mentioned two upsets though.

 

[Horton's halftime iceberg]

They mentioned two upsets though.

Yes Chelsea managed to beat the mighty Portsmouth, what the hell can Meridian put on the local news now

 

[Dawsey]

What a joke, even tonight when we cause the upset of the night we STILL only get about 30 seconds.

 

[mattb]

cvnts

 

[trueblue]

What a joke, even tonight when we cause the upset of the night we STILL only get about 30 seconds.

The problem is they have to choose one game to cover for full highlights. No-one (ITV/Sky/BBC) in that situation will choose a League One side against a Premier League team because, 99 times out of a hundred, the PL club will walk it, which nobody wants to watch.

In the Carling Cup the TV companies tend to go with matches between the bigger clubs. The only people to buck this trend have been the BBC - who don't have to worry anywhere near so much about viewing figures - in the FA Cup. And even then they'd usually have had a glamour tie to go along with the potential upset, that more often than not is a massive switch-off 5 minutes in.