Substituted players set to be interviewed DURING games

[tonyhorne]

Great. Let's hope they stop the game and conduct the interviews in the centre circle. Modern football could do with a few more lengthy pauses several times during the match ...

 

[Papa Shango]

This works in yank sports that have loads of breaks in play. When the footy is in play there shouldn't be anything discussed beyond what's happening on the pitch at the time.

I still remember going ballistic at the coverage we got from the US Setanta and the other networks that had the EPL rights when I moved over the water. They got arsey over the fact that the footy would run for 45-50 minutes without them being able to ram an advert into you so they would either minimize the footy into a small corner and cut off the commentary while an advert played or worse still insert one over the footy on the pitch.

American sports genuinely take the piss with scheduling. A baseball or NFL game goes ages, the hockey never starts at the time listed because there's always a billion announcements and anthems.

Footy is great because it is uninterrupted.

American sports tend to have loads more character too.

Footballers are generally pretty dull to listen to.

 

[Gwladys St. Glory]

FFS. A someone who lives in the US, the Americanisation of footy is really destroying my soul

Cast your gaze to rugby, they seem to have their together from what I've witnessed so far... I've been wrapping my noggin' around it ever since I saw the CWC farcical player pitch intros. I went with Rugy Union, which is apparently tougher for newbs to get to grips with, but oh well I'm not one to go with the norm, hence why I started watching football in the first place

 

[chrismpw]

Given everyone has media training to day nothing with lots of words, I really really don't see the point of this. Leave the players to have some mystery rather than proving they're utterly dull and characterless.

 

[Taifi gorm]

"So, Michael you have just... 'Sorry, we'll just let the crowd quiet down, there's some kids here' ("he's shittteee, she swallows donkey..., boo urns") ... as I was saying, you had a 10 mins spell before being re-substituted, how do you think that affected the game? Talk us through the goals".

 

[Rita_Poon]

The subbed player has mercedes cap passed to them with purpose
The music starts up
"This interview is brought to you in association with some airline"
Then...

 

[Benicetoourboys]

How are they going to "police" what players say? Will they just pick bores with vanilla opinions like James Milner?

Gives Pundits the chance to criticise a players opinions now as well as their football.
What a mess football is becoming.

 

[Walken]

As a sport we seem to be hitting new lows faster and faster

 

[Rita_Poon]

As a sport we seem to be hitting new lows faster and faster

now hold on there a second...

 

[Tipp blue]

They could get it in while VAR is spending 10 minutes on an obvious offside decision.

 

[toffee82]

What do you ask them?

"Are you happy to be subbed off?"
"Do you agree you were playing a bit $h!t?"


It will either be boring or players will get themselves in trouble.

 

[Tipp blue]

What do you ask them?

"Are you happy to be subbed off?"
"Do you agree you were playing a bit $h!t?"


It will either be boring or players will get themselves in trouble.

Could get binned as fast as they got rid of deadline day reporters reporting from areas accessible to the public.

 

[Rita_Poon]

They could get it in while VAR is spending 10 minutes on an obvious offside decision.

This opens a rather dark door. Brands sponsoring the var time out, guaranteed two per half...

 

[ArtetaMoney]

The game’s gone, la

 

[BainesontoastNEW]

This opens a rather dark door. Brands sponsoring the var time out, guaranteed two per half...

Even more so for us considering we won the VAR league.