Simpo Posted October 13, 2012 Share Posted October 13, 2012 Lots of attention on our match today as you may have noticed. A full crew televised it overseas, and it will also be a featured match on tonight's Football League Show. The walk was featured on Granada news. And Radio 5 also broadcast our game live. Listen to the aftermath of the goal here! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
oafc-latics Posted October 13, 2012 Share Posted October 13, 2012 watched the first half hour on a stream - we looked good and were all over them! i went out, came back and saw we were 1-0 down, before turning 5Live on and hearing the goal! Looking forward to the FLS to see what they think, hopefully we've done a good account of ourselves Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
peanuts Posted October 13, 2012 Share Posted October 13, 2012 all we will here about is the croft incident for sure Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
astottie Posted October 13, 2012 Share Posted October 13, 2012 the words 'Matt Smith' and 'very good technique' in the same sentence. Wooohooo!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
oafcmetty Posted October 13, 2012 Share Posted October 13, 2012 Phil Brown was very complimentary towards us throughout the commentary. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NewBlue Posted October 13, 2012 Share Posted October 13, 2012 So was Sean Dyche on Sky Sports News. He praised us even when Jeff Stelling asked bias questions like, "are Sheffield United dominating yet?" etc. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
oafcprozac Posted October 13, 2012 Share Posted October 13, 2012 Stelling's of a long line of Sky :censored:-houses that seem to have a problem with Latics. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tangerinedreams Posted October 13, 2012 Share Posted October 13, 2012 I concur Hallam, cheers BBC, you made it looked like we were lucky to get an equaliser, didnt show montano being hacked to pieces or anything like our umpteen shots on target. Tut.. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
steveoafc Posted October 13, 2012 Share Posted October 13, 2012 They wouldn't want to show little Oldham bossing the mighty blades.......shocking editing! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
laticsmarra Posted October 13, 2012 Share Posted October 13, 2012 Football league show disgraceful journalism,no more than we should expect ,propaganda sucked in to bigger clubs just like the ref today Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
marhar Posted October 13, 2012 Share Posted October 13, 2012 They're really on the ball - did you see how young and slim Gary Johnson is looking these days Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
oafc-latics Posted October 13, 2012 Share Posted October 13, 2012 on the plus side, at least Claridge wasn't on tonight... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andyt84 Posted October 14, 2012 Share Posted October 14, 2012 The coverage was crap, is it just my imagination or do they usually spend longer than 5 minutes on the featured game usually? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
keep_the_faith Posted October 14, 2012 Share Posted October 14, 2012 Dissapointing result/game.for bbc, were obvs expecting a comfy 3 nil home win with nice goals, though to be fair there was a few cracking games and plenty of goals elsewhere to show Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tommy_Fent Posted October 14, 2012 Share Posted October 14, 2012 I never thought it was going to be perfect but Clucking Bell!!!! They completely missed out Smith's header and the chance Simpson had. Like has been mentioned they can't possibly show ikkle Owdam play well, I mean they're not a real Football club they only get 3000 at home Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Roger Ritchie Posted October 14, 2012 Share Posted October 14, 2012 Matt Smith - Shintendo! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IceStationLatic Posted October 14, 2012 Share Posted October 14, 2012 And didn't they say Derbyshire scored, and then said he was our main threat all game, even though it was Grounds that stuck it in ?! and Derbyshire was relatively quiet (although his movement was still excellent) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rosa Posted October 14, 2012 Share Posted October 14, 2012 on the plus side, at least Claridge wasn't on tonight... I was gutted, I was looking forward to him having a face like a slapped arse like he always does if Paul Dickov's in danger of getting any credit. (did something go on with them two when they were at Leicester? He really seems to hate him.) But if he had been on he probably would have just seized on the Croft incident. Or maybe I'm being harsh on him, maybe he would have defended him like he defended Millwall last week after the Bolton game - "I can tell you, that will only have been one or two people shouting abuse" - really, Steve? Were you there? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LeylandLatic Posted October 14, 2012 Share Posted October 14, 2012 I never thought it was going to be perfect but Clucking Bell!!!! They completely missed out Smith's header and the chance Simpson had. Like has been mentioned they can't possibly show ikkle Owdam play well, I mean they're not a real Football club they only get 3000 at home Write to the BBC, hopefully they will get the message if enough people complain, here's what I just sent (i'm aware there are probably a load of mistakes but it was already 20 minutes of my life I won't be getting back!) I would like to draw your attention to The Football League Show aired 13/10/2013 and specifically the Sheffield United vs Oldham Athletic “featured” game. I have a number of issues with the programme – notably bias and the quality of the programme itself in relation to previous weeks (basically when the championship teams are in action). Firstly looking at the “featured” game itself, footage of the game lasted for just short of 7 minutes, of which nearly an entire minute was spent babbling about a nothing incident between Oldham’s Lee Croft and a ball boy who kicks the ball away. Regarding this I think it’s fairly obvious that Lee Croft said something to the ball boy (although highly unlikely to be racist to anyone other than a complete moron) who was basically doing the complete opposite of the job he is paid to do. So in summary we have around 6 minutes of action for a “featured” game which to me seems hardly substantial. In fact it wouldn’t be a surprise to see 6 minutes of footage in standard online highlights. Moving on to the content there seems a clear imbalance when viewing the 6 minutes of footage in context of the stats (produced by the BBC) for the game. Taken from the BBC’s stats Oldham have 14 shots on target to Sheffield United’s 5 and 19 shots in total to 7. From this you would clearly expect that the majority of chances shown are from Oldham. Unfortunately it appears that this didn’t fit the brief for the game. The chances shown in the order in which they happened are as follows: First Half Oldham - Simpson long range drive with Derbyshire follow up Second Half Sheffield United – Williams over hit cross Sheffield United – Doyle long range shot Sheffield United – Penalty award and goal Oldham – Derbyshire chance Sheffield United – Flynn chance Oldham – Smith goal Looking first at the opening 45 minutes, the action has been surmised by one chance a disallowed goal for offside (which from the footage you can actually see is onside - a fact that the BBC commentator decides to ignore or just not understand which would be quite worrying). The first half actually had 2 shots on target from Sheffield United to Oldham’s 8(eight). This is clearly not reflected in the footage. It actually makes it look like very little happened in the first half (something reinforced by the BBC commentator in the second half when he exclaims “a much better start to this second half” with no mention of specifically towards Sheffield United after they finally manage a shot on goal) whilst in fact Oldham had a number of chances, notably almost scoring in the opening minute through a Simpson header and having 7 other shots on target. Although already a picture of how the footage has been edited is becoming clear, the second half to me is even more damning. I mean, how can you edit a half of football to make one team appear to be dominating when they’ve barely been able to get out of their own half? In the second half by use of mathematics(!) I have deduced that the shot count on target is Sheffield United 3 to Oldham’s 6, at least some way to being respectable. Somehow out of 3 shots on target however the BBC has managed to get 4 pieces of footage for Sheffield United. By all accounts this is at best absolutely pathetic and clear bias as an over hit cross is somehow regarded as a better chance than real clear cut chances such as a second chance for Derbyshire, a header by Smith that was well saved and earlier in the half a couple of strikes by Montano all of which were far more note-worthy than an over hit cross that you can clearly see from the replay the goalkeeper is comfortable with. From the stats and from actually watching the game you it’s obvious that Oldham dominated the game in both halves, instead we have a poorly edited highlights footage which somehow gives the complete opposite impression. From Oldham’s 14 shots on target to Sheffield United’s 5 we somehow end up with highlights that show 3 Oldham Chances to Sheffield United’s 4, please explain how this could possibly happen? It seems that because Sheffield United is a big club the BBC has gone all out to appease their fans and to pander to and reinforce the uninformed perceptions of the average armchair fan. A truly poor effort. Moving on to my second point, the coverage was much less comprehensive than it normally would be for a featured game. I understand there is less interest in League One than the Championship, but this week there are no Championship games and so League One and League Two take centre stage and it is a chance for clubs who wouldn’t normally be in the limelight to get some decent media coverage. Instead it was almost like the BBC had been begrudgingly forced to cover Leagues One and Two, a token gesture of support to the lower leagues. In normal circumstances, featured games get much longer highlights and then some analysis from Leroy Rosenoir or Steve Claridge or both. On this occasion, you couldn’t even be bothered having the programme in the studio, a pathetic attempt at a subtle disguise for the fact you didn’t want to pay Steve to waffle on about big clubs being massive. Instead we had Manish wandering around Prenton Park an hour before kick off. So purely because the Championship weren’t playing the BBC put out an appalling excuse for the football league show. Whilst we’re talking about the shows general poor quality I would also like to point out that the guy you interviewed after the Tranmere v Yeovil game was not Gary Johnson as stated, it was Tony Skiverton. I’m not a Yeovil fan, I don’t follow Yeovil with any great enthusiasm but even I as a casual onlooker of the football league knew that wasn’t Gary Johnson. That is just plain lazy. Here you had a chance to give League One and League Two some proper coverage with the Championship not playing. Instead it seems to have been seen as a chance to save some money. One featured game in which the whole focus appears to have been on making the ‘big team’ look big… and no attempt at any analysis of either division or game other than the bias comments of the commentator. I expect this from Sky where they have an ulterior motive to do this but the BBC has shown itself here; that was atrocious. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NewBlue Posted October 14, 2012 Share Posted October 14, 2012 Give us the email to send it to and I'll send it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LeylandLatic Posted October 14, 2012 Share Posted October 14, 2012 (edited) Give us the email to send it to and I'll send it. Unfortunately the BBC are even more useless than i first thought and can't deal with a complaint that's more than 1500 characters long, so i had to split it up into 4 separate complaints each time quoting my previous complaints reference number, in all it took 10 mins to send it all and get each ref (which the email you). They will receive it all but they don;t make things easy. You're best condensing it down to save yourself the hassle, here's where you complain http://www.bbc.co.uk...omplain-online/ Or you can mail to BBC Complaints, PO Box 1922, Darlington DL3 0UR Edited October 14, 2012 by LeylandLatic Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lincoln_latic Posted October 14, 2012 Share Posted October 14, 2012 The BBC website is no better. The match report states that Christian Montano went close for the Blades. More crap attention to detail. Maybe we employ the same writers on our official site! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Forte_Baby Posted October 14, 2012 Share Posted October 14, 2012 I give up watching the football league show, the first season was ok but like the rest of the footie shows became to obessed with the bigger clubs etc. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sykelatic1 Posted October 14, 2012 Share Posted October 14, 2012 Don't want to be pedantic. But the yeovil guy is terry skiverton not tony. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LeylandLatic Posted October 14, 2012 Share Posted October 14, 2012 Don't want to be pedantic. But the yeovil guy is terry skiverton not tony. haha it's ok they won't research it ;) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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