TV Broadcasting Follow-Up
du Nord, August 8, 2006
Last week I wrote an article for the Third Carnival of American Soccer Blogs about the quality of broadcasting in soccer games.This past weekend two great examples made themselves available for me to use in my argument about what is wrong and how simply this stuff can be fixed.1) The two biggest plays in the MLS v Chelsea match were Eddie Robinson clearing the ball off the goal line & Dwayne De Rosario scoring the winning goal, but on both plays the announcers were blabbing on and on about nothing of importance when the action was happening on the field and totally missed the plays. Then they reacted with shock as something big had just gone down. It took them several minutes to even figure out which players were involved and at first glance got all the names wrong.As a matter of fact, the video production almost entirely missed the goal cuz they were busy showing us some bullshit long shot with their "happenin'" boom crane camera at the far end of the field.A complete joke both times.(As a side note, I have