BBC Announce First Four Live TV Dates: Derby County vs QPR is on the list.
The 2009/10 season sees live domestic league football returning to the BBC, albeit only 10 matches throughout the season. Auntie Beeb has today announced the first 4 games that she will be showing which includes QPRs visit to Pride Park Stadium. Here is the list in full:
- West Brom v Newcastle, Saturday 8th August BBC1 5:30pm
- Ipswich v Newcastle, Saturday 26th September, 5:30pm (channel tbc)
- Derby County v QPR, Saturday 24th October, BBC2 5:30pm
- Cardiff City v Forest (booooo!) Sunday 1st November BBC1 2pm
The first thing you might realise from looking at that list is the appearance of a certain team twice. Yes, that’s right, the geordies make it into the first two live tv games which seems grossly unfair. Given that the BBC only have 10 games, I think it is reasonable to expect them to show a different two clubs each time. We’ve waited years for league football to be shown on the terrestrial stations, even longer for it to be on the Beeb, yet they couldn’t even be bothered to think of another team from the Championship that they could show instead of Newcastle.
And so it begins….the medias love affair with Newcastle being the mighty team in crisis. Can Alan “yet another geordie messiah” Shearer save them from their Coca-cola nightmare? I for one hope not.
