BBC commentary

[endabob1]

Sky Sports spent the night talking about the SEVEN British teams in UEFA Cup action!

As for the BBC coverage, it started at 6.50 and went on til 9. That's as good as we could hope for. RTE would have started a couple of minutes before kick-off and stopped 5 minutes after the final whistle with copious ad breaks too. I thought the BBC gave a good flavour of the event including the bit in the Millennium Forum. In fairness, it was the biggest game in the club's history and one of the biggest events (of a positive nature) in the city in years.

The BBC did the same this morning, winds me up but sod it I'm just happy to see them getting coverage.

The bit from the Forum was probably the best bit of the coverage, the camerawork was brutal and the commentary just as bad, still happy to live with bad coverage as long as Derry are still in there.

[monzo]

The proper name of the stadium is 'Brandywell' withouth the 'The' as I'm sure some Derry fan will confirm...

See Artie's reports in The Derry Journal...

It is?! Never knew that, always assumed it was The Brandywell, as most Derry fans call it that.

[Redzer]

EuroSport were using the BBC camera's. Unfortunatly, half the time they could not name the player on the ball.

[stann]

Irish football needs to stop wanting fairytales and start wanting hard work leading to earned success, and an informed and committed media should be part of that, not selling this kind of night as some cinderella thing, where poor little Paddy team gets to dress up for the night, as long as they remember they have to be back in their lowly place by midnight, and leave real competitions to the big Irish teams like Celtic and Man U.

Post of the Year. Perfectly put.

[popmart]

I thought the commentry was terrible. I couldnt believe after 20 minutes they started saying that Derry looked tired. They are a professional team for gods sake, give them some credit. You would swear it was Derrys under 12s out there. I agree the camera work was atrocious aswell.

[passerrby]

it was full of that "ah arent they great god bless im " it was kind of a verbal pat on the head.

[Leeza]

Think most of us are so used -with justice - to dissing RTE that we automatically think anyone else will do a better job, and I just don't think that was true tonight - far too much of the commentary was of the peasant in the big city 'shucks look at us, playing with the big boys' variety, which wasn't at all warranted; add to that the ignorance on the part of commentators and presenters about the Derry team, and I think it was pretty sub- standard. RTE at least would have had Felix Healy or Dolan or even, god help us, Roddy as co- commentator who would have had some insight. what i think it illustrated was the IL attitude; the 'Europe alright for a lark, but not really for the likes of us' and 'look at these mad Derry people, aren't they mad?', rather than watching a good, committed football team handle technically better opposition pretty damn well.

I know Kenny and his team will be really disappointed if they go out of the competition - they won't be doing the 'sure wasn't it a great experience?' poor mouth routine. Irish football needs to stop wanting fairytales and start wanting hard work leading to earned success, and an informed and committed media should be part of that, not selling this kind of night as some cinderella thing, where poor little Paddy team gets to dress up for the night, as long as they remember they have to be back in their lowly place by midnight, and leave real competitions to the big Irish teams like Celtic and Man U.

Best post I've ever had the pleasure of reading on these boards.