Personal attendance versus watching on TV: the debate continues …

Having spent my normal weekend sports-watching on TV I am going to add two critical logs to this fiery debate, namely adverts and pundits.

Like many, I suspect the ad break in sports coverage is an opportunity to visit the loo, fetch a beer or a cuppa and do chores.

Yet if you stay by the TV you will receive repetitive adverts, pleas for charitable donations and funeral plans.

As for pundits, we have reached an all-time low, notwithstanding that never has more data been accessible.

Further, partisanship seems to be encouraged.

Ian Wright on ITV makes no secret of supporting Crystal Palace and Arsenal using the royal ‘we’. He often interrupts that most courteous of presenters – Mark Pougatch.

Roy Keane is dismissively grumpy. There is excessive lip service to diversity.

TNT utilises ‘faces’ who are not broadcasters

All channels endlessly promote their own programmes

I still prefer tv to attendance but I’m most unimpressed by the standard of broadcasting