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After the Party It's Time to Switch Off
 Damn
I enjoyed the World Cup Finals. Okay, I wasn't thrilled with
the final result, but overall I've had a sensational month
of watching soccer.
There were some real highlights for me.
- The great diving competition between Germany and almost
every South American team taking the pitch.
- The Search for Soccer Sooky of the Year (won by the Brazilian
Rivaldo who had a ball kicked into his legs and fell writhing
in pain - clutching his face).
- Watching Argentina sink faster than the General Belgrano
did in the Falklands War.
But, for me, the great moment was after the third-place playoff
game where the South Koreans - fantastic performers - were
helped up off the ground by the victorious Turks and both
teams went around the ground waving to fans. That is what
the competition is all about.
Anyway, while musing on the cup I came to the realisation
that I'd spent one heck of a lot of time over the past month
in front of the box.
Now that is pretty unusual as the offerings we get served
up by the commercial channels in Australia are absolute crap.
If you have too many braincells to watch reality shows, soapies,
American chat shows, game shows or even just low-brow lifestyle
shows then your only choice is the ABC (God Bless 'Em) or
SBS.
Speaking of SBS, how about this for a stitch-up job on them
from Channel 9.
SBS has long been known as the only decent thing in Australian
soccer and a more professional bunch of experts you could
not wish for.
Les Murray and Johnny Warren are excellent and their performances
over the World Cup Finals have been outstanding.
But Warren, seemingly not a man who usually fires up, got
very spewy when Channel 9 poached the SBS game commentator
Martin Tyler for their broadcasts of the later games.
According to sources, an irate Warren was effing and blinding
about Nine being allowed to use the SBS guy - when Nine had
refused to let one of its contracted stars - cricket captain
Steve Waugh - appear on SBS's World Cup Show.
It seems to me that the bully boys of Australian commercial
TV have done it again and made themselves out to be complete
and utter s***s.
Ah well, with the soccer over I can now get back to watching
movies, listening to the radio or surfing the Net. Look at
commercial TV? I'd rather cop a kick in the cods!
If there is something that has really got up your nose,
let Grumpy Old Coot know at grumpy@webwombat.com
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