Comments on: ESPN Coverage Hits New Low With West Ham vs MLS All-Stars

By: Footballer

Footballer — Fri, 13 Mar 2009 10:40:34 +0000

Listen to you guys. Whining and complaining like a bunch of little girls. You don’t deserve to be a part of football culture.

Rule #1 for being a football fan: Acknowledge which sport (this one) is the true one and only Football.

Then, and only then, can you proceed with a life in football. But you can’t skip rule #1.

But you people are stubborn about respecting Football. So I hope it gets taken away from you permanently

By: Mookie

Mookie — Mon, 28 Jul 2008 02:16:47 +0000

Hate to break it to ya Gaffer, but ESPN does most of this for MLS games, much less an exhibition.

I watched the game on ESPN, then watched it again on CBC.

Nigel Reed and Jason DeVos were in the booth, with Mitch Peacock from FSC on the touchline for some useful tidbits. Never cut to his face, while he was talking, they stuck to game footage.

CBC, after the pre-game, were in no way enamored with Beckham like JP and Harkes were. Beckham could’ve been 10 yards away from the goal and not done a thing and they would say “Beckham is happy”…….not so with the CBC.

Sadly, they also did in-booth interviews with Nash and Don Garber, but they never cut away from the game to show a stupid hawk at the top of the stadium. That doesn’t annoy me as much as cutting away from the game.

On a side note, if you want some sneaks at the CBC coverage of games, please go to azorean10, a Youtube user who has a string of Toronto FC game videos.

If you guys expect anything competent from ESPN then you’re delusional. Euro 2008 was good, but notice, and I hate to bring it up, they made it as British of a telecast as possible to the point where it could rank with the BBC (minus Julie Foudy). Other than that and the Champions League, American “soccer” telecasts are dreadful, and yes, I am an American.

By: Ryan

Ryan — Sat, 26 Jul 2008 13:16:20 +0000

Yeah I mean if you have watched other American sports, that stuff seems pretty par for the course, all star games are usually just opportunities for all the stars to hang out and have some fun. As for Rob Stone, the bitchy the hawk thing was hilarious, and he has been one of the leading crusaders for soccer on ESPN and conversely in America, every chance he gets he rips on Jim Rome and other soccer haters, listen to his podcast with Bill Simmons if you don’t believe me.

By: Jon

Jon — Sat, 26 Jul 2008 06:26:53 +0000

Wasn’t it an exhibition all-star game? These things don’t bother me as much in an exhibition game… it’s all for fun so throw in some stupid stuff with Rob Stone (that was pretty funnny).

By: mele419

mele419 — Sat, 26 Jul 2008 03:34:47 +0000

sorry but no one really gives two shits about the MLS allstar team playing west ham. that’s about it.
Oh, and most of america doesnt give two shits about football to begin with, so that didnt help.