Other Football (19, 20 & 21 August)

[ChesterDave]

Stick to your horses Michael.

[ChesterDave]

And capitalise your name please.

[rodo]

just saw the pen

[rodo]

Sky got loads of stick over the Friday night football build up show can see quite a few changes before the next one

[Shaggy]

It was unbelievably bad. No way will that format remain for the season, surely. Amazing they can get MNF so right and FNF so wrong.

[rodo]

It was unbelievably bad. No way will that format remain for the season, surely. Amazing they can get MNF so right and FNF so wrong.

just stick to MNF on a Friday not hard isn`t it funny how coverage of sport is actually better when they have actual experts on like the European football show on BT which is excellent

[Chris]

It was dreadful, Riley is abysmal and didnt even bother hiding how biased she is. Stelling is a cunt.

Henry, Redknapp and Giggs are bad enough on their own so they put all 3 together? It was utter ****. And they seemed to be going for some casual look and a cross between WWE and Soccer Am. God awful.

They've dropped stuff like US Open tennis coz of the costs, I wonder how much that little lot all got paid for last night?!

[Shaggy]

Agreed with both of you.

On the other hand Carra was good again. He's such a natural now, a great pundit and funny with it.

[rodo]

Easy to fix just do a normal build up **** that weapon Tubes off **** Stelling off dunno what they are going to do with Riley as that was always going to be a disaster and after the match do a weekend preview in the same vein as MNF simple

[Phoenix07]

FNF is symptomatic of the way Sky and BT are trying to Americanise our viewing experience, and it's becoming ****. Bright, flashy studios, bull**** opinions, backslapping banter, and a token totty designed to titillate the majority male audience.

Even when you're watching Sky News, the presenters and reporters chirp in with their own opinions, sometimes outright, or sometimes insidiously. We don't give a damn. Just report. BBC and ITV news are becoming are the same. I don't watch C4 or Channel 5 news, so I don't know about them.

Everything is turning into an X Factor style of programming, where everyone has a view, and it must be made known, leading to the utter chaos now on our screens.

[Gibbo]

They ain't gonna change it too much, at least for this season.

They might drop some of the Soccer Am stuff though, I'll probably end up just tuning it at 8 o'clock when the game starts, I thought it was gonna be a 7oclock kick off or something with it coming on at half 6.

[rodo]

watching manish, townsend, and giggs at the mo and that is an improvement

[RedReet]

I've never watched it as I half knew what to expect, but that clip from League of their Own was utterly horrific. I wanted to smash my TV.

[rodo]

Fella playing for Stoke has gloves on in August

[Muddled]

just stick to MNF on a Friday not hard isn`t it funny how coverage of sport is actually better when they have actual experts on like the European football show on BT which is excellent

I don't think they can replicate MNF as it's reliant on analysis of the weekend's football. With Friday being the first game they can only preview upcoming fixtures which steps on the toes of their (and others') shows.

Sky have tried to justify their switching of a game to Friday night by making it an evening of 'entertainment'; in reality they've ****ed over the ordinary fan (imagine travelling up from Southampton when you finish work on the Friday) and no amount of bright lights and bantz is going to change that.

Start the program at 1930 and equally build up both teams. Don't turn it into a Mourinho, Pogba, Ibrahimovic jizzfest.