All posts tagged Beeb

Shoreditch: a Footballing Hotbed

Thus far, The Two Unfortunates has passed on the opportunity to appraise the primary source for most Championship fans’ weekly fix, BBC Television’s The Football League Show; its first airing back in August being met with some engaging reviews elsewhere. We may well cast the microscope on the antics of Lizzie, Clem, Manish and company once a full campaign is completed, but for now, I’d like to put …

Pillaging the lower reaches

Yesterday’s entertaining share of Midlands spoils at the Walkers will have been seen only by an anti-Murdoch few, pitted as it was against the Manchester Ship Canal derby. That’s a pity. Leicester and Coventry served up a textbook example of what’s good about this league. The Foxes purred in the first period, adroit passing in and around the penalty box handing them a 2-0 lead in no way devalued …

Sunday Blues

Just a quick nod in the direction of the BBC’s live coverage of Leicester Vs Coventry this Sunday. With Gabby Logan otherwise engaged with the egg-chasing, Jake Humphrey will host the show. I think that might be it for live games until the final day of the season, although this web page indicates that the Forest Vs Cardiff game will receive attention, for the second time this season, on …

New Lows in Advertising

This post hasn’t got too much to do with the Cocaleague, but two advertising campaigns caught my attention at the weekend, and not in a good way. First, leafing through my copy of The Guardian’s Guide magazine on a train to England’s Northwest, I was flabbergasted by a two page spread proclaiming the christening of the new England away kit by Kasabian, live in Paris. Our’s is a free country …

Lights and Bushels

My other half would vouch that I spend a disproportionate amount of time keeping an eye on this group of 24 teams. If anything’s worth knowing, she’d say, then I’d probably find out within a day or two unless I’m on a self-prescribed football diet which for the good of our relationship I have to impose on myself every few months.

As such, I raised an eyebrow earlier this …