The foreign comparison

The reporting in this country is consistently portrayed as extremely bad. Since positive approaches, ideas for improvement and not pure nagging should prevail, the question arises whether it could be done better and if so, how it could be done. This leads to the idea of taking a look around at how things are done…

Calls to the reporters

Football is booming, no question about it. Full stadiums, especially in Germany, practically every child will kick the ball at some point, many join clubs. It’s the number one sport, so all is well?Well, one is allowed to express some concerns about his future? The framework on which he is built seems quite stable. Perhaps…

Pretensions

“Here the spectators rightly applauded” “The coach rightly praised his team after the match” Commenting on a substitution. after the substitute is named, comes the player’s analysis: “Yes, he didn’t have a good day today. That didn’t work and that didn’t work and in general.” Why only after the substitution? A true expert would perhaps…

Sawn Chairs

Yes, the tiresome coach discussions. Or are they the “found food” for the media, in the absence of the ability to make the game itself palatable to the viewer? Skilful commentary on exciting scenes? Maybe that used to be the case. Today, all that is heard is a standardised mish-mash with a negative slant, live…

Popular Positions

You could just as well call it “generalisations”. The point here, unlike with the phrases, is that the commentators are constantly looking for opportunities to summarise two or three match scenes and use them to try to explain the running game. One example looks like this: A team attacks twice on the left. Then they…

Report Rules

Reporting in the “ideal world” Of course, since there is a lot of badmouthing about the reporters, there should be some more general guidelines somewhere on what good reporting should look like. In addition, this one essential aspect should be said in advance: should you ever get the idea in this country – which you…

FC Basel – AS Rom

This game took place in the Champions League group phase of the 2010/2011 season on the evening of November 3, 2010. The game was selected by the author as a live game from the Sky offer for 90-minute, i.e. complete, observation, including commentary. There were a few good reasons for this:If there is a following…

Bochum – 1860 Munich

On the evening of August 23, 2010, the 2010/2011 second division season also began for these two teams. The second division has gained a permanent place in the weekly coverage by being granted an exclusive game played without any (domestic) football competition. Now something like that always represents a great opportunity to present football, to…

Annoyances Week 30b-17, July 30, 2017

You can explain almost everything that goes wrong in football with a scene picked out at will. An important requirement: you watch football games WITHOUT a fan passion with one of the two teams. Whereby the annoyance tends to get even bigger if you are a supporter and are currently being disadvantaged. However, you are…

Annoyances week 34

If you watch a single football game, selected at random, then you can basically show almost everything that is said about statements in the room and provide the evidence for it. If you take the entire weekend, which was also randomly selected, then you can almost guarantee that everything will be there. Above all, it…