They seemed to love that really annoying "from the touchline" viewpoint.
Show the bloody game!
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Don't know why they love the "player waiting to get back on the pitch" while the game is still running.
Lingering. It's their new thing. They have become obsessed with lingering on players decades after they've released the ball.
It was absolutely ridiculous again today. The amount of times we got a 10 second close-up of a player while the ball was in play... Idiots!
It was absolutely ridiculous again today. The amount of times we got a 10 second close-up of a player while the ball was in play... Idiots!
I mentioned this today. They were very good at managing to not show the game whilst the ball was in play.
thought the same thing, all you saw was De Gea watching his kick and then the crowd reacting...ridiculous.
So yeah, watching their manager try to zip up his coat for about 30 seconds is always better than watching football.
Thought exactly the same. Also don't forget watching their manager walking on the touchline for 15 seconds or watching Rio warming up from 3 different camera angles.
I wouldn't mind but that footage of him zipping up his coat even led to Taylor to start commentating on it! Just show the fecking game.
We don't want to see anything but the match unless there is a stunning naked woman in the stands or similar. Why don't the producers realize this?
Nooo, theyve started doing the continental: "Lets give you a small picture to watch them game whilst showing Mancini walking down a tunnel 100 miles away"
This is beyond ridiculous now. They're showing more of people's faces than the game itself
They kept the cameras on DDG whereas the match was still on 
I want to download this match and see how much of the game was actually shown. I swear we only saw about 30 minutes of football.
What the feck! Seriously! This has never pissed me off as much as tonight. ARGH! Idiots!
I wish they wouldn't keep cutting to the football during the Roberto Martinez show
Was beyond a joke tonight, 4.30 into stoppage time and they are showing fecking martinez bawling incoherently at players...fecking hell, so annoying!
It was fecking shit tonight, I've never been so pissed off at a producer, horrible cretin.
I lost count of the times we had to see one of the following: 10 Wigan fans who bothered to show up, Martinez doing weird hand gestures presumeably no one understand, Maloney sitting on the bench or Sir Alex's weirdly red nose (It was really bad tonight) only to find out the ball had been in play 5 seconds.
Really shit tonight, on the basis of that I hope Wigan go down so we never have to have their producer control another premier league game against us.
I lost count of the times we had to see one of the following: 10 Wigan fans who bothered to show up, Martinez doing weird hand gestures presumeably no one understand, Maloney sitting on the bench or Sir Alex's weirdly red nose (It was really bad tonight) only to find out the ball had been in play 5 seconds.
Really shit tonight, on the basis of that I hope Wigan go down so we never have to have their producer control another premier league game against us.
Who was in charge of the broadcast? Re. who do I send a complain mail to?
It's getting worse each week and I have no idea how someone, anyone hasn't put a stop to it yet. Seriously, how is this allowed to still happen?
It's getting worse each week and I have no idea how someone, anyone hasn't put a stop to it yet. Seriously, how is this allowed to still happen?
Probably the worst its been all season this one, I've seen more of Martinez's face than actual football. The worst thing is because we were shite tonight everytime they cut back to the game Wigan had the ball, every single time.
today was terrible..I swear I saw Roberto Martinez more times than i did for my whole life.
Fergies nose was acutally blue for some reason.
I think I saw a pimple in SAF's face, dancing with maracas and sporting a respectable moustache.
Seriously though, stop it. Stop the zooming in, stop the 20 sec stand still on the scoreboard and stop showing Martinez's gestures each and every second.
Seriously though, stop it. Stop the zooming in, stop the 20 sec stand still on the scoreboard and stop showing Martinez's gestures each and every second.
Thought of this thread every time it cut to Martinez. The best bits were showing replays of replays of Martinez.
I thought it was just me going fecking mental at this. Unbelievable the amount of time it spent fixed on Martinez and Maloneythe worst was that my stupid russian stream kept having bints with rifles and some cocknose with a scorecard with some sminky words coming up on the screen and covering the bottom third.... Every 10 minutes or something, it was annoying as feck!
Never seen anything as bad as Wigan-Utd tonight for camera cutaways, even compared to those frankly bizarre champions league and la liga production choices. Every single fecking time the ball went out of play, we got some forced sub-plot bullshit which made the whole game seem like a highlights package. Awful. The scary thing is someone somewhere must think this is the future.
I was watching a Russian stream, every 10 minutes or so they'd do one of those overlay ads for upcoming programs which took over a third of the screen. The girl with the gun in the winter sport biathlon gear was cute but the 1980's style cool kid that dominated the screen whilst we were counter attacking was annoying as hell. I expect Pogue to confirm this.
If you do find out, do let me know as well. I'm seriously pissed off with this bullshit and someone needs to be at the end of my e-anger.
The only way we can put a lid on this madness of aspiring auteurs among those editing games choosing to show e.g. a kit-man's tapping foot, the scoreboard, then back to the foot, then an abrupt zoom on a distraught child, then back to the foot again while the ball is in play is giving negative feedback.
I'm not quite at the 'I wish to complain in the strongest possible terms...' letter-writing stage yet, but it's fast approaching. Last night was truly abysmal.
This just rubbed salt in the wounds. Absolutely ridiculous.
Same here, at one point the girl pointed the gun towards moses and he hit the floor, made me proper
So, Sir Alex has trainers on. Whatever next.
One thing that has been bugging me for ages...
It's one thing that they insist on showing a replay when the ball is still in play, but why do they first zoom in on the player in question before showing the replay of an incident?
We know who the bloody player is and how he looks, and if we don't, I am sure we'll find out in 2 seconds when you show the replay a billion times. It makes no sense, and just takes valuable seconds away from the actual play.
It's one thing that they insist on showing a replay when the ball is still in play, but why do they first zoom in on the player in question before showing the replay of an incident?
We know who the bloody player is and how he looks, and if we don't, I am sure we'll find out in 2 seconds when you show the replay a billion times. It makes no sense, and just takes valuable seconds away from the actual play.
Let it go, Top.
Never!
Nah, this rant is always one worth having. The 'HD era' has really exacerbated the problem. Seeing Fergie doing very little in HD is no more interesting than seeing him do very little in SD. Meanwhile, we're missing the actual football.
It's not worth it, mate.
Nothing about TV coverage really bothers me; I think Sky do a fantastic job of depicting a football game. What bothers me is my dad thinking he's the third eye off Soccer AM and rewinding the game ten times every half. I go to his to watch United, but nevertheless I'm the boss of the controller these days; I've banned him from going near it.
I would prefer they focus on the game or even replays of technical stuff like difficult ball controls, back heels etc etc ...