Maybe a bit off topic, but I once watched a match from MLS and I swear to God that at one point the commentator startet to promote some sort of Burger-chain 
Show the bloody game!
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I like when nothing is happening in a game, so they start to show slow motion shots of players walking and/or gesturing.
There seems to be an odd tradition in coverage of Spanish football (I've mainly noticed it on Revista de La Liga on Sky) of showing a sequence of slow-mo shots of the faces of every player on one team one after another.
Mainly it seems to happen in games featuring one of the big two. As soon as there's a pause for injury or something, you get a shot of every single Madrid/Barca player's expression in the aftermath of a goal for or against them, or some other incident. It's bizarre.
...I don't even...
All we see is, Shinji Kagawa!
That was.... amazing....must have bren even better in hd
Any time Andy Murray played I screamed this. Shots of his girlfriend, his mother, his trainer, every time he scratches his arse.
Funnily enough they almost missed showing his only shot in the game by cutting to someone in the stands. I've not seen a worse coverage of a football match in my life.
They need to bring in split screen on the replays
Pathetic.
Showing him when he was on the bench was understandable (even if was overdone). But Frequently cutting to his mug when the ball is still in play...
Showing him when he was on the bench was understandable (even if was overdone). But Frequently cutting to his mug when the ball is still in play...
TBH it was a pre-season friendly and the club were more concerned with marketing their Japanese superstar than the few fans who are sad enough (me included) to sit watching this shite on a Tuesday morning. This tour is as much about money as football and Kagawa is a huge part of that for the club in Asia. As irritating as it was it made sense for them to do it.
That was cringeworthy broadcasting but at least it detracted from us struggling on the pitch slightly!
I'm pretty sure it didn't have anything to do with the club. It was more a case of the Japanese producer being a bit of a wanker I think.
I sometimes wonder what the heck goes on in the minds of these camera directors. I mean don't they have any brains to know that it gets really annoying? I even hate it that when the ball goes out of play they cut to someone's face. Just leave the camera to focus on where the feck the ball is even if it is just De Gea running to get it from the ballboy!
Possibly, but I'd be surprised if the club didn't have some input into it. Either way it didn't overly bother me. If it was a League game it would be a different matter.
Was nothing to do with the Club. Stewart Gardner even said so in his commentary.
Wouldn't the directors have their qualifications in film directing before anything football related?
I was talking about the football camera directors. You know, the ones that sit in the room and decide which camera to go 'live' at which moment. Those cnuts.
Two completely different styles of directing. I doubt there are very many sporting event/film directors out there. Sports is a completely different entity to film.
Yeah, but I'd assume a sports director will have his qualifications in film directing, and not film as in Hollywood, before any qualifications in sport?
It was pathetic IMHO, I'd be so embarrassed if I were Kagawa. Never mind all the close up when he is on the field but the ones when he's on the bench drinking a juice, scratching his head 
It was pathetic IMHO, I'd be so embarrassed if I were Kagawa. Never mind all the close up when he is on the field but the ones when he's on the bench drinking a juice, scratching his head
His goal today is by far the goal I've now watched the most in footballing history.
fecking Japanese.
It's a meaningless pre-season friendly in Kagawa's home country, who cares?
Me.
I like Shinji, but by the end of the game, I wanted him to fall down a hole and never be seen again.
Obviously some of us do.
Didn't see Kagawa's goal during the game, does anyone have a link for it?
So many images of that goal are floating around, I reckon if you raise your right forefinger in the air you're bound to pick one up.
You must be the only person in the world who didn't see it, I have had nightmares ever since.
Everytime I go to sleep all I see is Kagawa.
whats with BT Sport every minute showing some pop up square in the bottom corner of somebody doing absolute feck all
Don't like the score being in the bottom corner. Didn't like it when Sky tried it, don't like it now.
At least you still get to see the action, with Kagawa it's a thousand time worse.
Yeah I didn't mind it. Far better than them cutting away.
Funny, I just posted about this in the Hargreaves thread. Had a feeling some of you would like this mini cam.
Just got 15 seconds of Jermain Defoe tying his shoes.
Highlights from today's game:
Pardew phone cam
Shearer cam
Fat man behind Shearer cam
Keegan cam
Pardew empty seat cam
Pardew phone cam
Shearer cam
Fat man behind Shearer cam
Keegan cam
Pardew empty seat cam
You forgot the cam on every single person that left the stadium the last 30 minutes.
The Shearer-Beardsley-Shearer again sequence in the first half was majestic - probably the highlight of the match from Newcastle's POV.
Ridiculous tonight!