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ITV Highlights


staines_rebel_Jr

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Have already made my feelings about the amount of coverage given to us known on Gary's footage thread, but on the whole I thought the whole show was extremely poor. ITV didn't see to understand/care about what getting to this stage of the competition meant for little clubs such as ourselves, Met Police, Arlesey Town or Hendon (regardless of who they were playing), preferring instead to focus on non-league "minnows" Forest Green and Hereford!

 

And the bit where they referred to Bradford Park Avenue as being a League Two side did it for me. Just what exactly are these "journalists" paid for???

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That was pitiful, you deserved a LOT more than that. Shocking commentary and what the heck was up with Matt Smith? Poor chap looked like the living dead to me!

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As Nathan says above, BPA being referred to as League Two was laughable and trying to fit in every loose police reference into the Met Police game commentary was embarassing. Still, ITV (and the BBC) have done this for years. It's all about the Prem and nothing else matters for them.

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To an extent the Mansfield programme did the same as the TV companies always do when non-league clubs are involved.....they had an obsession with what jobs the players do. It's as if they are trying to reinforce the fact they aren't really proper footballers. Sadly for them our band of electricians, financial advisors, fireman et al stopped the proper footballers from winning!

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Watching the highlights programme now after recording it last night. Not really surprising that they don't seem to care, we saw the same thing with the ESPN coverage.

Just saw the Yate game highlights - they hit the woodwork twice but they only show the goals for the bigger club. Watching the other goals before it gets to our game but having seen all these comments I'm not really looking forward to it!

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The whole eight seconds of match footage constituting of a single Mansfield shot wide can be seen on their website:

 

http://www.itv.com/sport/football/article/2012-11-04/fa-cup-first-round-highlights/

 

Really had hoped the online verison would have at least shown our chance from Smith.

 

It's a horrible page as well with every single game highlights on there so it takes an absolute age to load.

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