Sky Coverage today

[Sir Tokyo Sexwale]

Nice - nearly miss the goal because you're showing a f***ing replay

[techmob]

yea, and showing 3 minutes on a board, while the commentator is saying 3 minutes added time

 

do we really need to see the figure to prove they are telling the truth..

 

missing part of the game while they show that

[Bromage]

Did you also notice the mention that Kuyt and the referee were both dutch. in respect of the disallowed penalty. On the credit side however, have Sky bowed to our fans pressure and relieved JR of his duties, at least for our games.

[Hassony]

Did you also notice the mention that Kuyt and the referee were both dutch. in respect of the disallowed penalty. On the credit side however, have Sky bowed to our fans pressure and relieved JR of his duties, at least for our games.

what fan pressure

 

and no

[Bromage]

what fan pressure

 

and no

 

Don't you just love irony.............

[BG]

yea, and showing 3 minutes on a board, while the commentator is saying 3 minutes added time

 

do we really need to see the figure to prove they are telling the truth..

 

missing part of the game while they show that

 

Depends if it's Tyler or Gray speaking.

[John am Rhein]

On the credit side however, have Sky bowed to our fans pressure and relieved JR of his duties, at least for our games.

 

 

Put him on daytime TV where he belongs!

[Guz]

Any scenes of the away crowd bouncing?

[Coyler]

The story of the game was narrated entirely from an Arsenal perspective.

[Billy Dane]

Because they were still in with a chance of winning the league? Listening to the game from that perspective must be what it's like to be an Evertoninan on a permanent basis.

[Guest Ant]

Why on earth they didn't just call it it Arsenal v Red s**** I'll never know....

 

Anti-Liverpool Agenda Ridden c****.

[Coyler]

Why on earth they didn't just call it it Arsenal v Red s**** I'll never know....

 

Anti-Liverpool Agenda Ridden c****.

Hi Anty Gray.

 

[Hightown Phil]

Andy Gray is a prize c**k.

 

'I'm no goalkeeping coach, but Reina should be coming for that.'

 

Yes Andy, yes, he's amazing and can reach over 5 men and clear the ball.

 

f***ing d****ead.

 

United away, he was criticising Reina for coming for the ball. t**.

Edited April 5, 2008 by Hightown Phil

[Kite]

And apparently Skrtel should have had a yellow card. An actual free wasn't even given for the challenge he was bleating on about but nevermind that ...

[Leroy]

Why on earth they didn't just call it it Arsenal v Red s**** I'll never know....

 

Anti-Liverpool Agenda Ridden c****.

 

Good job I had me specs on

 

Redden

[Coyler]

Yourself and Logic. Edited April 5, 2008 by Coyler

[Redkop]

Also... according to them, Skrtel is still learning the English game and is still nervy....

Edited April 5, 2008 by Redkop

[Benzo-13]

It wasn't that bad to be fair today, nowhere near as bad as Wednesday.

The main commentator said "that it's a testament to Rafa Benitez's abilities that he's been able to keep the side going even with all the pressure and upheavel around the club".

I thought that was good.

 

Gray was right about Pennant being daft for their goal scoring free too.

[Guest Ant]

Also... according to them, Skrtel is still learning the English game and is still nervy....

 

I agree he is still learning, but not that he is nervy like.

[dorgie]

The commentator today must have told us about 24 times how Arsenal are so good at scoring late goals.

[Ste M]

The commentator today must have told us about 24 times how Arsenal are so good at scoring late goals.

 

He managed to jinx it well enough.

[ali]

Look away now

Live in high definition: hairy men, chewed ears and Dirk Kuyt

 

 

Sunday April 6, 2008

The Observer

 

Never knowingly understated, Sky granted the opening fixture in the ongoing Arsenal v Liverpool saga the kind of gravitas normally reserved for state funerals or the return of a long-since departed soap character. Wednesday night's Champions League game at the Emirates could never have lived up to the giddy pre-match hyperbole, and eventually managed to cram its noteworthy moments into three first-half minutes - but Sky aren't ones to let the ever present possibility of a high-definition let-down spoil their evening.

 

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Sky are deeply proud of their high-def football coverage - after all, it's the promise of pin-sharp reproduction of every single goal, waist-high tackle or torrent of invective that's driving sales of their HD boxes. But, quite aside from the hopelessly variable quality of the actual football it's able to offer, high-definition technology has given Sky some problems of its own.

 

Poor Richard Keys in the studio, for instance. Once cruelly (though accurately) maligned as the hairiest man this side of the Pleistocene epoch, he must now be strategically plucked and depilated for fear of causing offence among fainter-hearted high-definition viewers. Other Wednesday-night sights were rendered even more traumatic than usual by the merciless high-def gaze: Kolo Touré's weird, chewed-looking ear, Nicklas Bendtner's tattoos, Martin Skrtel and Dirk Kuyt in general.

 

For all of the toil and enterprise displayed on the pitch, though, Sky saved the biggest drama of the night for after the game. In the studio, Gordon Strachan, who innocently offered the information that his Celtic side employ the same zonal marking system that let Liverpool down so badly for Arsenal's goal, found Graeme Souness in no mood to trifle. A lack of gainful employment hasn't dulled Souness's ire, and he launched into Wee Gordon and his zonal marking with verbal studs showing.

 

Keys, suddenly finding himself cast in the Peter Sissons role, managed to inflame what might have been a minor spat into a bitchy row with a series of increasingly witless questions. The programme ended with Souness theatrically rolling his eyes, Strachan mildly but determinedly defending his position and Keys unexpectedly revealing his philosophical credentials by excitedly announcing 'there's no right or wrong'. It's going to be mighty difficult for Liverpool and Arsenal to follow that on Tuesday night.

[Guest Doakes]

on wednesday night I remember sky lingering on a close up of rafa and then going to the scoreboard for what seemed like an age right in the middle of injury time. cut back to the pitch and arsenal were on the edge of our area. seriously annoying.

[DazzlaJ]

on wednesday night I remember sky lingering on a close up of rafa and then going to the scoreboard for what seemed like an age right in the middle of injury time. cut back to the pitch and arsenal were on the edge of our area. seriously annoying.

 

Is it sky who do the camera coverage though, I got that on my foreign channel.

[Maldini]

Is it sky who do the camera coverage though, I got that on my foreign channel.

 

If Sky are doing it live then it's them doing the cameras yeah.