Re: Commentary for winning drop-goal online

On Wed, 3 Dec 2003 9:23:26 +0000, Nigel Evans wrote
(in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>):

> 
> "Jack Sais" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
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>> Not sure about the rugby commentators in Wales being OK, though - during
> the
>> 60-something destruction of Wales at Twickenham in 1998 there was a
> desperate
>> moment during the second half where one of the appallingly biased pair at
> the
>> microphone said something along the lines of "if we get a couple more
> balls
>> off the top of the lineout we're in with a good chance"
>> 
>> Objectivity? Balance?
> 
> I think that we can expect bias with regional commentators. Huw Llewellyn
> Davies is always biased but knows his rugby and is very funny. Some of the
> Welsh club rugby has been so bad this season that a commentator who is a
> comedian raises the standard of viewing to "acceptable". The Welsh soccer
> commentators are nothing more than soccer hooligans who shout and whinge
> their way through games.
> 
> 

Fair comment, but this thread began with a pathetic whine about Rob Andrew's 
exultation at the end of the RWC final being an example of the BBC's 
pro-English bias. For some unfathomable reason the only part of the UK that 
isn't entitled to 'regional commentary' is England, nonetheless we get 
subjected to such moronic outbursts. Ah well, guess we can't all be winners 
:-)

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Jack Sais

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