A Picture Paints a Thousand Words; Well it does if you can see it!

Didn’t England do well tonight? After embarrassingly failing to qualify for Euro 2008, the enacted a vast amount of revenge by crushing Croatia 4-1, and even more sweetly, on Croatia’s home turf! A surprise Theo Walcott hatrick and Wayne Rooney gets off the mark after a prolonged goal drought that has been costing me many a few points in the good old fantasy football!

            However, maybe BBC and ITV television felt compelled to skip the action in Croatia, and instead subject anxious fanatics to either listen to the action via radio or purchase it on Setanta sports. Never has there ever been such a ludicrous decision made by not one, but two major English television companies. Although in saying that the uproar caused when ITV cut to commercial two laps for the end of a Grand Prix in the heat of a vicious battle for victory, was to say the least met with hostile reaction.

            Now I am a man of principles! I gave up on listening to football on the radio after deciding that I’d had enough of being left to imagine the action in my head, a head which frequently falls into constant daydream mode! So the radio became useless! Then there is Setanta sports. I have to say I was quite intrigued by their marketing campaign, but ultimately decided that the pub is always the best place to watch a match, with for me a pint of coke and some Sahara nuts to accompany me and my friends in front of a big screen.

            I had hoped that at the last minute Setanta would change their minds and give us the match for free due to BBC and ITV’s incompetence, but alas the action lasted 20 seconds before the channel cut itself off leaving the screen blank and unfulfilling.

            So well done to the Englandcollective, a long overdue victory against a country who we can and should beat given any opportunity. It’s just a shame the BBC and ITV didn’t think it worthy. Maybe they were scared at another desperate loss or something, but in doing so may have alienated a vast majority of football fans.