So many football matches these days are spoiled by the never ending drivel spouted by the needless commentators. A constant flow of words, few of which are relevant to the game in front of them, block the screen as the fans attempt to watch the game.
Add to this the constant desire of the director to ensure the camera is fixed on a man who does not have the ball, had it five minutes ago and does not have it now. All the while, the commentator tells us needless information about the man's football history. Either that, or the camera is on a celebrity in the stand while the game is happening 50 yards away.
However, today I found a club that does football TV properly, Pars TV!
Dunfermline Athletic has always been a club I was fond off, mainly because of an aunt who lived there and a cousin who once was their physio. I always see it as a club that ought to be amongst the big boys. I first went there in 1964, just after the bridge opened, and a good healthy crowd followed from Tynecastle that day. Many times we have played there in enthralling games.
Pars TV, one of the many TV organisations set up by clubs these days to cover their own games, little chance of large TV donations from the main TV companies, that's for sure. I first used them a few years ago, now they have established an excellent offering for followers of their team.
Here we see them having a lucky 0-5 win over Arbroath, no commentator spoils the game with biased, meaningless drivel, words do not endlessly flow, instead we are given the impression we are at the game itself, it is wonderful! We hear the cries of fans, always interesting, the home and away support, and the players and referees as they, er, debate decisions. Watching this was like being at the game, so unlike most TV coverage today. Of course, I did not experience the fresh wind off the North Sea right behind the camera, and of that I am glad, I have been there before!
I'm probably breaking copyright to post this, but it is worth it as this coverage so realistic is to be encouraged. Well done Pars TV.
Who is this, you might well ask? This is Danny Kruger who you and I have never heard off. Danny, a Christian, he says, was until today a staunch member of the Conservative Party. Now, however, he says it is dying and will not recover, so he has hopped onto the Reform UK bandwagon to save his £91,000 and more a year.
While few of us know him, he has been going the rounds within the party, writing speeches for David Cameron, then Prime Minister, Ian Duncan Smith, the mental Tory, and along with his wife, creating a charity called 'Only Connect, a youth crime preventing charity. He has had various jobs in the DWP and does appear to have an attitude that rings true. He supports marriage, opposes the individual worshipping society, as he sees it, and refers to himself as 'communitarian.'
A brief read leaves the impression he may not be as bad as some Eton educated MPs, (his parents are South African, his mother Pru Leith) he also read History at Edinburgh and Oxford, so he cannot be all bad. Yet in spite of his intelligence, his knowledge, his experience of life, he has fallen for the lie that is Reform UK! How?
Reform are led by a liar, Reform have no policies, unless he has been brought in to provide some, Reform cannot be trusted on anything, and Farage is a liar, so how can a man like Kruger mix with him?
I wonder what Badenoch makes of it all?
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