Category: Sport

A couple of Olympic blogs that are making fascinating reading: Stuart Hughes and Scott Goldblatt.

This week’s Broadcast magazine has a double-page spread on something very close to my heart – those fancy camera techniques that are used in sport. Since Broadcast’s website is totally subscription only, here are their top ten: 1. Virtual Spectator – Basically all the graphics tricks used in coverage of the WRC. It all involves…

Looking forward to this Panorama, whenever it gets broadcast. No real surprises that votes can effectively be bought – the whole regime stinks in my opinion. This being an Olympic year, Andrew Jennings normally has another book out on this subject. It doesn’t seem to be the case this time around sadly. It’s always seemed…

It may be unlucky for some, but Stage 13 in the Pyranees yesterday kept me watching. The stage covered many mountains, finishing at the Plateau de Beille. Lance Armstrong, chasing his sixth consecutive tour win was once again left with a sole real rival in Ivan Basso. Everyone else was losing time or even getting…

Well that was a built of a shambles wasn’t it? I work right next to Regent Street where several Formula One cars were effectively parading up and down doing around 80mph last night. Since all the tube stations were closed, I was involved like it or not. As a matter of interest, despite my overall…

Once again the Tour De France is upon us, and amazinhgly, ITV2 are still giving it reasonable amounts of airtime (undoubtedly helped by the fact that it has a sponsor in Michelob Ultra). Live coverage seems to be limited to occassional transmissions at the weekend when Phil Liggett and Paul Sherwin manage the very clever…

Guess who had a pair of tickets to Wimbledon yesterday? We stayed until around 4ish before deciding that there was unlikely to be any play and headed off home. Once we’d made that decision, you begin to hope that all play really will be cancelled, because you’d hate to think that as you’re getting on…

So this article from Media Week has the findings of some research that says that fans don’t mind company-sponsored stadia. What a load of nonsense. This research was conducted for Arsenal, and is obviously paving the way for some blue-chip company to pay many millions for the right to call the new Arsenal stadium something…

Well if the plaudits for Wayne Rooney weren’t enough the other day, the papers are going to go mad tomorrow. Rooney helped England to a 4-2 win over Croatia, taking us through to a massive quarter-final match against the host nation tomorrow. Come on England!

The best thing has got to be the press ads they’re running that use old logos from The Avengers (Beckham, Owen and Gerrard) and The Saint (featuring Michael Owen). [Sorry, can’t find online versions of them]

I mean – really! So the old Fourth Division now becomes the Coca Cola League Two. What a load of nonsense. So you’ve got a new sponsor and a new logo – leave it at that. I think I may have to go back to calling everything Divisions 1 to 4.

So Porto beat Monaco in a pretty average Champions’ League final last night, in what was Mourinho’s last match before he joins Chelsea. But much more entertaining for the home viewer was the “matrix-stylee” bullet time effects. Known as “Eye-vision“, it was first used, I believe, for the 2001 Superbowl (The Matrix was released in…

Isn’t 3.11pm a little early for tea? That’s the time that tea’s coming in the first test between England and New Zealand.