Measuring your life in World Cup milestones
I really don't know how ITV continually get away with it. You know that however bad the BBC gets with its football coverage, ITV will always be there to make the Beeb look like a paragon of football broadcasting. From fatuous pundits, step forward Andy Townsend (teeth curlingly bad) and Sam Allardyce (spot the four letter word in the middle of his name that just about sums him up); to experts in hyberbole such as Clive Tyldsley (tho' admittedly even Clive's not as bad as bloody Jonathan Pearce) thru to their dreadful BBC cast off anchor men - Adrian Chiles is the lastest in a long line of er... three of these creatures. If it's populist nonsense then God help this nation of ours because if that's what the majority of people want there is only one way to go...
via When Saturday Comes on 07/06/10
7 June ~ ITV once produced an excellent trailer for their World Cup coverage – no seriously, they did – showing how a man progressed through his life via the key milestone of each World Cup. So we see him as a child celebrating England's 1966 triumph, as a youngish man looking devastated when Chris Waddle fires a penalty into orbit in 1990, all the way through to him in the modern day; watching a game in the office with work colleagues, now that he's become a middle-aged, serious person.
