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RTE obsession with english soccer?

  • 11-03-2009 11:53pm
    #1
    acontadino
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    The panelists do a terrible job at doing neutral analysis on games. they may not be neccessarily pro-english clubs but they completely over analyse them and i have no reason why.

    an example was on tuesday scottish great graham souness claiming 'foreigners' aren't able for the style of play of English clubs despite the fact liverpool had more spaniards on their team than Real Madrid had.


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  • #2
    Jip
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    It's not just RTE that are obessed with English soccer, all Irish boradcast media seem to be but Today FM are the worse. It really bugs me when they go through the results of every English soccer game at the start of a sports bulleting but then only briefly go through sports events that actually happened in Ireland on the same day.


  • #3
    mike65
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    The obssession merely reflects the Irish sporting public, in the summer the sports reports are dominated by GAA and if there is a big meeting, the nags.

    In the winter its soccer, and as the domestic game is a rubbish and b inbernation the ELP and SLP will get alot of coverage at the top of the sports news.


  • #4
    heyjude
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    Jip wrote: »
    It's not just RTE that are obessed with English soccer, all Irish boradcast media seem to be but Today FM are the worse. It really bugs me when they go through the results of every English soccer game at the start of a sports bulleting but then only briefly go through sports events that actually happened in Ireland on the same day.

    But it doesn't just apply to English Soccer, what about their blanket coverage of English racing(Cheltenham) all this week ? :rolleyes: Its just a reflection of what the sporting public are interested in. If huge numbers of the Irish public were interested in baseball then presumably we'd have much more coverage of baseball games in the press and on RTE. As for TodayFM being the worst, well you have to remember that they don't get a licence fee, so they have to cover sports that are most popular with the general public in order to attract listeners and therefore advertisers, RTE with their public service mandate and licence fee income would have a greater obligation to cover minority sports.


  • #5
    thusspakeblixa
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    I see this in the Tribune a lot too.
    Calling non-English people foreign and the like. Also- last week I saw the League of Ireland referred to as the "Eircom League". The LOI is no longer primarily sponsered by Eircom, I wish they'd do a bit of research.


  • #6
    ah,sure
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    thusspakeblixa wrote: »
    I see this in the Tribune a lot too.
    Calling non-English people foreign and the like. Also- last week I saw the League of Ireland referred to as the "Eircom League". The LOI is no longer primarily sponsered by Eircom, I wish they'd do a bit of research.

    That 'foreign' thing is simply an accident. A lot of the copy comes from England and is written by English hacks in PA AP or Reuters, and needs an Irish sub to take that stuff out. Sometimes they leave it and that's why it reads like it does.
    There's no agenda in that.


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  • #7
    thusspakeblixa
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    ah,sure wrote: »
    That 'foreign' thing is simply an accident. A lot of the copy comes from England and is written by English hacks in PA AP or Reuters, and needs an Irish sub to take that stuff out. Sometimes they leave it and that's why it reads like it does.
    There's no agenda in that.
    The Tribune's League of Ireland tables don't come from England though, there's no excuse for that.
    I understand how newspapers take copy from various agencies (just look at "World News" in the IT or Indo) but Irish soccer coverage isn't covered in any major British or European newspaper as far as I know.


  • #8
    mike65
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    heyjude wrote: »
    , what about their blanket coverage of English racing(Cheltenham) all this week ? :rolleyes:

    Methinks you have no real idea about what you are talking about.


  • #9
    acontadino
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    further examples in herald am yesterday, a ****ing match reprot on some ****ty english league match fulham vs someone else, and not a mention of barcas 5-2 demolition of lyon. we really live in a weird country.


  • #10
    Aidric
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    They are merely servicing a huge appetite for it in this country, makes sense really.


  • #11
    mike65
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    acontadino wrote: »
    T
    an example was on tuesday scottish great graham souness claiming 'foreigners' aren't able for the style of play of English clubs despite the fact liverpool had more spaniards on their team than Real Madrid had.

    This is feck all to do with News/Media but the continental lads toughen up no end after a season in the Prem that why they are able to see off teams from Italy, Spain etc dispite being from those countries.


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