Six Nations: BBC Celebrates 10,000 French Dead At England V France Match
THE BBC’s Berlin correspondent Steve Rosenberg says that “in the run-up to crucial England-Germany football matches, tabloid paper articles sometimes read more like despatches from the front than from a football tournament.”
Those sad tabloids, eh. They’re not like the noble BBC.
Going into the England v France Six Nations rubber, both sides have won one match apiece, but John Inverdale calls it a “Grand Slam decider”. (A Grand Slam, for anyone not au fait with rugby, is when one side beats the other five.)
But this is a passing burp in the biased bilge pouring from Inverdale’s mouth. Inverdale compares a rugby match between two allies to the battle of Agincourt. Inverdale gives a potted history of death and war in which the “French lost 10,000”.
And lest you suppose that the death of 10,000 people is irrelevant
to a sporting event, Invedsdale observes:
The fight lasted “barely longer than rugby match”.
Still, it’s not football, so no harm done…
Posted: 26th, February 2011 | In: Sports Comment | TrackBack | Permalink
