Not Exactly Appropriate

It should be a routine for me to watch Mio tv's Goals on Sunday, basically their highlights show featuring a run-down of the Saturday games in the Premier League. In fact, whilst I do watch it fairly regularly, I find doing so close to torture. Not because of the anguish the Mighty Reds are capable of inflicting on their ardent supporters, even in a season when they've gone 15 points clear. Such suffering is very much part of the live experience, of course. No, the torture comes about as a result of being subjected to two of the most painfully inept introducers of a television programme I've seen for years. Stick them on MTV and there might be just be some kind of logic behind putting them on screen. But this is about football, for goodness sake! You don't need eye-candy to talk about Harry Redknapp. You don't need bad jokes and continual smirking and too much of the girl's legs when all you want to see is just how good Rafael's strike actually was.

Besides, there's way too much stultifyingly cliched gabbing and not enough of the game.

I assume the producers have some kind of odd justification of all this in mind, like trying to attract a wider audience. But surely the crucial thing about about putting footie on the box is to have people talking about it who have some basic knowledge of and insight into the game?