Censorship Of The BBC?

The way we watch football highlights has changed. The on-set of numerous highlight sites and those who have the licenses giving you the option of just watching them on-line without the fixture and fittings.

It’s almost as if the powers at be are admitting that no-one is interested in punditry anymore and we just want the money shots. This means that when you watch the flagship highlights programs in ‘real-time’ you gag at how poor they are.

Sportscene has become such unwatchable rubbish. The set looks like a dentists waiting room with some upturned IKEA beds lit up like a poor Amsterdam Brothel.

We have Rob McLean who sounds like he is announcing special offers at B&Q and a succession of guests that make you pine for Pat Nevin due to him owning Trivial Pursuit, a few cardigans and every Echo and The Bunnymen record ever made.

The other night saw either a message being conveyed to the masses or an instance when a production assistant was so bored that he decided stick a censored sign over certain incidents in the programs end montage, to a needle-in-your-eye pain educing ‘popular tune’ giving it an edgy and arty look.

Most bored art students just take LSD and piss on Winston Churchill’s statue not mess with the mind of the paranoid.

Incidents ‘censored’ include a Hearts fan(nie) with his top off, a pushing match between a few players and Fat James Beattie diving like a rhino being shot with a tranquiliser dart. The final scene is pictured below.

Though mention of the dubious penalty was made during the commentary, Rob McLean and his guest Kevin Kyle made no reference to the incident. Of course that was maybe because Kyle is as wooden as a fire door or of an underlying editorial policy, seen in all the media this week, to protect another blundering honest mistaker.

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