Two of the most newsworthy clubs in the country at the moment.. as the back pages of most of the papers this morning would also show. Newcastle v Spurs, sadly, is a guaranteed audience. Brighton 2 Man City 2 (5-3 aet) is possibly a better one, but Brighton 0 Man City 2 as a main game would have been an absolute switch-off.. and let's face it, pre-match, that seemed a lot more likely. The TV companies have to play the percentages according to likely results.. they don't have the luxury of sending one man and a laptop like the papers.
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ITV Highlights - pathetic with a capital PAH
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Two of the most newsworthy clubs in the country at the moment.. as the back pages of most of the papers this morning would also show. Newcastle v Spurs, sadly, is a guaranteed audience. Brighton 2 Man City 2 (5-3 aet) is possibly a better one, but Brighton 0 Man City 2 as a main game would have been an absolute switch-off.. and let's face it, pre-match, that seemed a lot more likely. The TV companies have to play the percentages according to likely results.. they don't have the luxury of sending one man and a laptop like the papers.
pasty
A different kind of pasty
The London Metro had "Brighton 1 Man City 1 (extra time being played)"
I mean what's the point in that eh? eh? eh?
maffew
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it was so so bad was really pissed off. Couldnt go to the match listened to it on the radio then sat through 2 predictable extended highlights games waiting up for our turn.
utterly useless
utterly useless
formerdutchmarine
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- Sep 25, 2008
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Sky Sports news coverage was pretty good, they showed highlights every half hour or so last night, hopefully after last night the Derby game will get a bit more coverage
London Calling
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As it happens I gather the Portsmouth Chelsea match was so predictable as to be boring.
Brixtaan
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Bearing in mind the viewing figures would be higher for Brighton v Man City (due to combined support figures)the ONLY explanation for ITV showing extended highlights of Parmpy v Yawnski over our game is that they are unimaginative,unromantic numbnuts.And that is unforgiveable in the entertainment business.How are these people still employed?
Easy 10
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Actually, thinking about it, its probably more to do with pre-booked advertising revenue. I would guess ITV have to tell their advertisers in advance which game(s) they will be giving top billing to in their highlights package, and set a price according to that. They can't then chop the Newcastle v Spurs down to the goals roundup and make our game the main feature instead, on the basis that it turned out to be a shock result. In hindsight our match was obviously FAR more interesting to the neutral than Newcastles, but had we slipped to a comfortable defeat, nobody would have bothered with ours either.
Damn, I think I've just bollocksed up my own BITCHFEST.
Horton's halftime iceberg
Blooming Marvellous
Drives me round the bend , ITV see us as some outpost of football, perhaps when we get Falmer and offer them padded seats and free prawn sandwiches they may change their view, however I doubt it....
Mendoza
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Sky SPorts News has given us loads of coverage, and the after math, following us through training today, and filming the team pissing about in an outdoor swimming pool
Braders
Abi Fletchers Gimpboy
fairly reasonable effort by Meridian , we got more airtime then Pompey 
Bluejuice
Lazy as a rug on Valium
I couldn't find any paper that had the final result in today, other than the Argus obviously.
The Metro, Mirror and The Mail (not my choice, just papers that were lying around) all reported the match went into extra time and that was it.
Lazy bastards.
And now it's yesterdays news it's not going to get into any of tomorrow's papers is it?
Our big time moment of glory and none of the nationals have run the story
The Metro, Mirror and The Mail (not my choice, just papers that were lying around) all reported the match went into extra time and that was it.
Lazy bastards.
And now it's yesterdays news it's not going to get into any of tomorrow's papers is it?
Our big time moment of glory and none of the nationals have run the story
Braders
Abi Fletchers Gimpboy
South East Today did a good job on it too 
If there'd been more cameras there, they'd have made it the lead match without a doubt. But you can't put a commentary on single camera coverage even for a short edit - let alone the main game. Put it this way, if someone could have said with certainty that League One Brighton would beat Man City, they'd have chosen the game for sure... it's not a personal vendetta...
champion7
fast and furious
i picked up a current bun at 6.30 this morning and the full result was in that
Tummy Burger
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I am so glad someone started this thread. My first thought watching ITV last night was how utterly dull it was to be watching Newcastle Spurs. Not only was I enraged by not showing more than 20 seconds of our game, I felt bloody awful for QPR, beating a decent Villa side away from home and gettin about the same coverage. Total garbage... at least the BBC would normally try and cover smaller teams in the FA Cup. GETS ON MY TITS
Cheshire Cat
The most curious thing..
ITV even managed to make the highlights of their "main" games desperately tedious. The Newcastle game was like watching a pre-season friendly in an empty stadium. Neither of the teams were interested, none of the players showed any particular skill, and there appeared to be nobody watching (and I know there was supposed to be c19,000 there but in a ground that holds over 52,000 it looked almost completely empty). The Portsmouth game was just a waste of everyone's time. And as for the supposed "expert analysis" in between games, I have heard more profoundity coming from a bowl of rice-crispies.
That's....because...Matt Smith...is...a...f***ing...chisla...who...is...incapable...of...finishing..a...sentence...in...under...5...MINUTES
city boy lee
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- Sep 25, 2008
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It's the same but higher up over here in Oz. City are currently the least shown side in the premiership and after putting 6 past Pompey while Oz watched (myself included) the dire Man U Chelsea match, the sports roundup on pay tv here had highlights of their game and just showed our score. Unbeleivable. Thought it would be better in Engalnd, obviously not.
Nottseagull
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Sky might even cover it live if there's not much footie the night it is played.