This is an opus. We have JohnnyTheNic on Laura Woods, Clive Tyldesley, Micah Richards' giant arms and a whole lot of food and drink over the first week of the World Cup on TV and radio.
This the first offering of the day on the BBC. I watch as I eat black pudding and beans on toast. Mark Chapman is mein host with Mark Schwarzer, Alex and Rushy. The Welshman is wearing a vibrant two-tone fuchsia floral shirt, his hair platinum white and his eyes as blue as robins’ eggs. It’s hard not to imagine he’s wearing a strap-on comedy nose, so smooth, rubbery and substantial is the beak.
The post-game interview with coach Graham Arnold was tremendous in its unreconstructed maleness, so gruff and unfiltered, like something from a bygone age. All ‘mate’ and ‘the boys’ and, of course, ‘the beers’.Postie is back at work and delivers a box of screws, two wooden knobs and 23 records, some early 70s hard rock and some 80s metal 12”ers.
There’s been a story in the Telegraph about 80-year-old Des Lynam thinking Laura’s use of ‘Wrighty’ was over informal. Whether that was why she called Wrighty ‘Ian’ this evening, I don’t know. Wrighty’s response was “You know what Lozza, it doesn’t matter, you don’t have to call me Ian. Look, how long we’ve known each other. Call me Wrighty like you normally do.”They roll some 1998 World Cup footage. Hard to believe it was 20 years ago and all those players are retired now.
Half time on ITV is time for Roy, Joe C and GNev. Pougers, who I’ve loved for many years, lays back in his chair and looks a bit tired. If I was a betting man, I’d lay odds that Laura W will replace him as the head honcho when contracts allow. It’s a great win for Morocco in a thoroughly enjoyable game. I see the second half on World Cup Extra to get the radio comm with the pictures. In the TV studio it is Chappers with Pablo Z, Didier and Laura Georges who is a welcome force of real energy and is the Secretary General of the French Football Federation. I bet the English FA Secretary General isn’t as cool, nor as articulate.
I enjoyed that game and Matt U summed it up well saying they’re short of goalscorers outside of Davies but have a lot of promise for four years’ time when they’re co-host.Before the game, I take time out to look at all the records that were delivered yesterday. The Lizzy Borden double live looks very interesting. Never seen that before. I put them all on my ‘to be filed’ shelves. The 7 & 12” singles are in a terrible mess.
Rafa also says how a lot of the ultra groups are left-leaning and very concerned with human rights and women’s rights and that this is at the core of the national response. I hope TV has similar insight as this. It was important information, concisely delivered by one of the most thoughtful in the business.
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