General Chat

I watched six o'clock news on BBC tonight and I learned of a football manager's retirement and that of Prince Philip and the 70th anniversary of the North Atlantic War. Viewers visited the war rooms underground H.Qs in Liverpool and were reminded that 5,000 merchant ships were lost and 30,000 merchant men during this time.

Other items of news were read and then the reader said to return to the main item of the news - the football manager.

I am miffed.

i Gave up on the BBC a long time ago lol

Son turned to Channel 4 news long time ago. OH appears to like BBC - perhaps he will change after tonight.

I also found it odd that football managers came first in the news today,when there were other IMO more important stories.

It was said by Martin Sorrell on BBC tonight that more tweets generated by Fergie's resignation that Lady T's death. :-)

It was "breaking news" on our Sky channel this morning :-(

That was over and above the news of the 3 young women who were abducted by 3 brothers a decade ago.

disgraceful - far more important things going on in the world than football FGS - grown men kicking a ball around a field getting paid obscene amounts of money for it and being hailed as "stars"

There was an awful piece of news on the radio:
At least six people have died and several others are missing after a ship crashed into a control tower in the Italian port of Genoa

Not mentioned on TV.

'Some people believe football is a matter of life and death, I am very disappointed with that attitude. I can assure you it is much, much more important than that.'
Bill Shankley

News is what people are interested in. Ferguson's retirement is global news yet another Italian merchant marine accident not. News has nothing to do with taste.

his retirement was mentioned on our 6 pm TV news .................... as the very last item in the sports section.

Took all of about 25 seconds

Still headline news this morning.

It didn't merit headline news yesterday - 70 year old man retires. Not news. His posible replacement is still not news - it's not as if it's an important job like running the country or brain surgery.

He organised over-paid, "entitled" adolescents running around a field chasing a ball.

and not a mention of the 3 soldiers are being re-patriated to UK to-day.

its not even made any headlines I dont think.......!

Disgusting is the word.

The BBC is just one of the many "we know what is best for you" bureaucratic organisations, funded by the taxpayer, where non-elected officials decide what policies it will follow.

They are behaving in exactly the same way as our elected "we know what is best for you" brigade that is called - The Government ;-)

Sport, football in particular is the most important thing to many people the only reason they own a telly. Sport means ratings, sponsorship and advertising revenue.
Sport is money, the new religion.
All hail the mighty sport :-P

Mayfield,
Couch potato, remote in hand to channel hop while some presenter takes 5 mins out of a 15 min news programme to waffle on an on!

it is the same with many thing
3 people die in a bombing in boston and it is all over the news for days
many more die in bombings in iraq and syria on a reguler basis but little mention
as one viewer said on points of view it implies that white lives are more important and others are not worth mentioning

A very famous preacher was sat in his front room in Sandfields in Port Talbot in 1930's about 5pm. The football match was over at Vetch Field and the fans were walking past his open window. It had been a wonderful game (Swansea had won) and they were discussing every move of the match in fine detail.

He commented the following day in his sermon about it. We have so much more reason to be excited by our God, yet how many churchgoers leave on a Sunday discussing every twist and turn of the sermon?

I would just say that news media tends to report what people are thinking and talking about. More people tweeted on Fergie's resignation than Lady T's death and funeral. Yet days were given over to Lady T - only half an hour late last night to Fergie.

Lady T was a major international brand. So is Fergie - in all countries where soccer is revered.

I absolutely adore my football and my team but there are many more important issues in life . I could not believe all the fuss about 1 manager leaving last night on TV and I don't think I'll even look at the newspapers today judging by the front page of the Sun :-| :-| :-|

The announcement was Good News for the government - coincided nicely with the Queens Speech ;-)

I hope AF can now find time to go back to school and learn how to speak english.. Can never understand what he is saying