h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

I came in one evening, saw that England v Germany was on the TV. It was THAT match! England 5, Germany 1! Luckily I had the presence of mind to turn over to something interesting instead. I think it was the weather forecast. A narrow escape, if you ask me.

By switching over you were probably lucky enough to miss yet another rerun of England winning the World Cup in 1966 as well.

Ha, England creamed Germany!!! :P Owen had a hat trick too.

For me the best football moment of 2002 was when ITV Digital went down the toilet because they had paid too much for football rights.

cute!

well you say that, but it does really screw everything up for those of us wo like football.

You expect sympathy? When at one point during the last World Cup there was exactly the same picture on three channels at once?

And when the footie overruns, you *still* get the twenty minutes of vacuous guff afterwards!

so?

the world cup has nothing to do with domestic football, which never clutters up terrestial TV.

ITV Digital going down the pan could be the worst thing if you don't like footy on telly.

All the clubs that depended on that money are the teams who have fans that actually watch the games in stadiums - that's why they went bust, no-one needed to see them on telly.

What you'll be left with if these clubs all go out of business is a mass football audience who can only see their favourite sport on the telly. Hence - even more football on televsion.

Bad news all round then

Interesting philosophical question: would trading an hour of Unreality TV for an hour of blokes kicking a bladder round a muddy field be an improvement?