Fox Soccer Report glitch 10 May 09

Nice of Jeremy St. Louis http://msn.foxsports.com/other/story/3710376/Jeremy-St.-Louis to greet the moms watching on Mother’s Day.
But -oh dear! – the guys who do the graphics have fouled up again: the report showed video of Manchester United apparently scoring two goals against cross-town rivals Manchester City.
The Setanta Sports Channel graphic showed the score as Manchester United 2 Manchester City 0.
The Fox Soccer Channel graphics, however, gave the score as … Manchester United 0 Manchester City 2.

Which team won the game? Who knows? I am deaf, so cannot hear the commentary. I think I cannot rely on Fox Soccer Channel.

Fox Soccer Report mess up … again! Sat April 18, 09.

So we are shown Chelsea scoring two goals, and Arsenal scoring only one goal in the FA CUp semi-final game held at the new Wembley, but announcer Terry Leigh (who is she exactly – and what credentials does she have to mispronounce players’ names?) misreads the autocue and says “Arsenal win this – um, Chelsea win this 2-1.” Is she confused? Because we certainly are: the gigantic graphic informs us of the score: Arsenal 2 – 1 Chelsea.
We will look forward to the FA Cup final, then – can Chelsea, or Arsenal, or whoever the finalist might be, beat Manchester United or Everton or Matlock Town FC or Kyoto Purple Sanga or whoever their opponents might be?
Moral of the story: don’t rely on Fox Soccer Report for, er, anything factual.

Fox Soccer Report gaffe 9 April 09

Yet another typo on the Fox Soccer Report graphics:

PSG 0 – 0 Dyanmo Kiev

Don’t they have simple spell-checker software? Like Microsoft Word? C’mon guys, not even Gmail?

New-Look Fox Soccer Report

Changes in the look of the Fox Soccer Report program. The new background showing a stadium full of fans is better, and having the two main commentators facing fewer cameras is also an improvement. Why another announcer is separated frpm these two, and why s/he has to stand, we don’t know. A demotion for those guys?

One of the weakest areas of the program – the graphics – remains, however:
- the graphics are huge. Even if the producers feel the titling has to be large to cater to the visually-challenged viewer, the graphic extends above and below the writing. These large graphics cover up the video of the action on the pitch!
-even worse, the graphics are rarely accurate. It’s as if the person responsible for them has some sort of beef with the channel and deliberately messes them up. Is it true?

Because the commentators, most of whom appear to new to the sport of association football, also make mistakes on a regular basis, we cannot be sure if the information we are given is correct.

Today’s problem: can you work it out? The graphic tells us that this weekend’s game is Houston Dynamo v New York Red Bulls. Great! I’m booking my flight to Houston right now. Oh, hang on, the commentator (Carlos Machado) tells us New York are at home to Houston! Twice! While the graphic remains on the screen informing us that Houston are playing at home.

What Fox Soccer Channel have to do:
1. Sack the commentators, apart from Bobby McMahon. Replace them with people like Bobby who know the game.
2. Revamp the style of the graphics, and have some sort of quality control of the text.

Bobby McMahon

Kudos to Bobby for predicting a Liverpool victory away at Real Madrid (R. Madrid 0 – 1 Liverpool) in the Champions League. (Shouldn’t that be Champions’ League?). If Real haven’t been on top form this term, then neither have Liverpool. We’ll see on Fox Soccer Report on Friday 27 Feb 09 if this correct prediction will lead to any crowing on Bobby’s part .. or fawning on the part of his colleagues. Whether this would be natural to all people/TV programs I don’t know, but when Bobby makes wrong predictions, these are never brought up on subsequent shows for some reason.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bobby_McMahon

Who will win the English Championship?

Any predictions out there on who’ll win the Championship in 08-09? And which other 2 teams will be promoted?

For me:

Champions: Birmingham

Second: Reading

Third: Wolves

Olympic Soccer.

“Hooray!” We can watch the Prem instead of that watered-down version of the World Cup called the Olympics. Does anyone agree with me that that FIFA should pull soccer from the Olympics entirely?

Not so “Super” Sunday 20 April.

Aston Villa 5 – 1 Birmingham City

Why doesn’t Fox Soccer Channel show all of the goals? For example, we see all of Aston Villa’s five goals against Birmingham City, but we are not shown City’s goal. We don’t know if it was a defensive breakdown, an the goalkeeper throwing the ball in his own net, or brilliant goal of the year. Who scored the goal? Does FSC pay for the rights to show the goals of only one team?

FYI: the scorers were (Villa) – Young (2), Carew (2), Agbonlahor; (B’ham) – Forssell

Blackburn Rovers 1 – 1 Manchester United. 19th April 2008

A game of two halves as the home team edged the first 45 minutes with santa Cruz scoring and Manchester United pourng forward in the second the find the equaliser that eventually came in the form of a header by Tevez. The game was notable for the number of penalty appeals igored by ref Rob Stiles. The lack of fear shown by the Blackburn players was something that other teams might learn from.

Guinness “Brilliant” Play of the Day

Oh dear! The “analysts” choosing the Guinness Brilliant Play of the Day for each live game seem to be choosing any play by the bigger of the two clubs involved in the game yet again. First off we had the Liverpool v Reading game that FSC’s Bobby McMahon correctly identified on yesterday’s (15 Mar 08) preview show as being a tougher job for Liverpool to win than many were predicting. This was apparent after the brilliantly-executed first-time rocket shot by Marek Matejovsky put the Royals 1-0 up early on. Mascherano equalised with a similarly powerful shot, but as any player or coach in the world will tell you a first-time shot is much harder to execute correctly than a shot such as that by Mascherano who teed the shot up for himself before striking it.An even worse decision came when FSC decided to award the “Brilliant” Play to Arsenal’s scrappy equalising goal – a header by Kolo Toure that may have been an own goal – rather than to Middlesbrough’s genuinely quality goal: a quick counter-attack by Boro saw Tuncay’s brilliantly struck half-volley cross converted on the volley by Jeremie Aladiere. There can be no excuse for not giving this play to the Middlesbrough pair outside of corruption or complete incompetence.Viewers! Please keep monitoring the number of the so-called “Brilliant” plays awarded by FSC to the big teams. Feel aggrieved? Complain to Guinness or stop buying their beer.