BBC Stupidity 1 Common Sense 0

[NigelJ]

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-62397375

So, how are you supposed to check online, when you are driving home? 

[Chris Black come back]

A terrible decision as any real football supporter could have told them if they had been asked. Will be reversed by the weekend.

[Bollinger]

They seem to have a remit to cheese off the people who pay for the service.

I can go to the BBC Football page and get all the news I want from the Premier League, Scottish Football, Welsh football, Women’s Football and Irish football but there’s no direct link to League One or League Two.

[wing commander]

 It's a typical bbc decision isn't it reflecting there wokeness policy.

They are quick to flood there presentation teams to reflect the topics of racism and sexism,they cant do enough for that. However because people who are visually impaired are not the flavour of the month,the fact they rely on this service as they cant surf the internet means they dont count and can go whistle.

[Chris the Rover]

The BBC seem to believe that football outside the premier league doesn’t exist any more. They have no interest whatsoever in EFL games.

[Wiltshire Exile]

I was appalled by this decision! I’ve been listening to Sports’ Report since the early ‘50’s., with wonderful presenters such as the late Raymond Glendenning, Alan Parry and Peter Jones. Not to mention JAG., aka as James Alexander Gordon., the classified football results’ reader. 

Surely, with two channels, 5 Live and 5 Live Extra, they should be able to accommodate Sports’ Report for just 1 hour on a Saturday evening?

Perhaps the royalties payable for the famous theme tune are now too costly? 

Saturdays will never be the same.   

[mugnapper]

FFS. How to make yourself even more unpopular with the General Public. Well done BBC.
Sleepwalking their way into being defunded.

[Wiltshire Exile]

They seem to have a remit to cheese off the people who pay for the service.

I can go to the BBC Football page and get all the news I want from the Premier League, Scottish Football, Welsh football, Women’s Football and Irish football but there’s no direct link to League One or League Two.

Try these links, Bolly:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/league-one and

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/league-two

[Bollinger]

They seem to have a remit to cheese off the people who pay for the service.

I can go to the BBC Football page and get all the news I want from the Premier League, Scottish Football, Welsh football, Women’s Football and Irish football but there’s no direct link to League One or League Two.

Try these links, Bolly:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/league-one and

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/league-two

Thanks, but you take my point!

[Wiltshire Exile]

They seem to have a remit to cheese off the people who pay for the service.

I can go to the BBC Football page and get all the news I want from the Premier League, Scottish Football, Welsh football, Women’s Football and Irish football but there’s no direct link to League One or League Two.

Try these links, Bolly:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/league-one and

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/league-two

Thanks, but you take my point!

Point taken, Sir!

[Branton Rover]

Probably can’t get a box ticker to do it without cocking it up.

[Wiltshire Exile]

Probably can’t get a box ticker to do it without cocking it up.

Too right, Nick!

[Wiltshire Exile]

The fight back has begun!:

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/sportsnews/article-11091675/Des-Lynam-slams-BBCs-decision-axe-classified-results-reading.html

[sf9944]

Sorry probably just being a bit thick but what exactly is a ‘box ticker’?

[Wiltshire Exile]

Sorry probably just being a bit thick but what exactly is a ‘box ticker’?

Google:
A derogatory term for:
A person who is excessively concerned with following rules or punctiliously carrying out a set of tasks, typically at the expense of initiative, enterprise, or originality.

[sf9944]

Thank you. Are you sure this is what our fellow poster meant though?

I asked because I initially interpreted a box ticker as meaning someone from a minority group and the implication being that someone from a minority group would be somehow less capable of reading the football results. Which seemed a bit strange.

[Wiltshire Exile]

Thank you. Are you sure this is what our fellow poster meant though?

I asked because I initially interpreted a box ticker as meaning someone from a minority group and the implication being that someone from a minority group would be somehow less capable of reading the football results. Which seemed a bit strange.

No way is a box ticker related to a minority group. See here:

https://english.stackexchange.com/questions/341704/what-does-box-ticker-mean-when-applied-to-a-person/341705#341705

[Ronnie Dovers]

It's a typical bbc decision isn't it reflecting there wokeness policy.

They are quick to flood there presentation teams to reflect the topics of racism and sexism,they cant do enough for that. However because people who are visually impaired are not the flavour of the month,the fact they rely on this service as they cant surf the internet means they dont count and can go whistle.

Wouldn't the BBC making a decision that discriminates against a minority (in this case, as you suggest, the visually impaired) be the complete opposite of any kind of 'wokeness'? I'm really baffled by your decision to bring the made up concept of 'wokeness' into this.

[MachoMadness]

It's f**k all to do with wokeness unless you're one of the cry babies who complains everything is woke.

They've done it to leave more room for build up to the 5:30 premier league kick off. Simple as that. It's a nonsense decision. Pandering to the privileged few while mugging off everyone else. Which is about as un-woke as it gets, really.

[Chris Black come back]

They’ll end up reversing in some face-saving form.

[Filo]

Away games, back in the day, getting back on the Yorkshire Traction coach, just in time for the tune and the results, the memory’s

[Goole Rover]

It's a typical bbc decision isn't it reflecting there wokeness policy.

They are quick to flood there presentation teams to reflect the topics of racism and sexism,they cant do enough for that. However because people who are visually impaired are not the flavour of the month,the fact they rely on this service as they cant surf the internet means they dont count and can go whistle.

Wouldn't the BBC making a decision that discriminates against a minority (in this case, as you suggest, the visually impaired) be the complete opposite of any kind of 'wokeness'? I'm really baffled by your decision to bring the made up concept of 'wokeness' into this.

I'm afraid the BBC have gone unnecessarily over the top with PC and sadly this will cause a reaction.

[coventryrover]

It's a typical bbc decision isn't it reflecting there wokeness policy.

They are quick to flood there presentation teams to reflect the topics of racism and sexism,they cant do enough for that. However because people who are visually impaired are not the flavour of the month,the fact they rely on this service as they cant surf the internet means they dont count and can go whistle.

  Doesn't reflect woke at all.    Ps gonlook at the proper definition of that word rather than the Daily Mail ...the last bastian of utter b*llocks

[Sammy Chung was King]

Sick of hearing this woke crap, a new buzz word comes out and everybody is repeating it.

[DonnyOsmond]

It's a typical bbc decision isn't it reflecting there wokeness policy.

They are quick to flood there presentation teams to reflect the topics of racism and sexism,they cant do enough for that. However because people who are visually impaired are not the flavour of the month,the fact they rely on this service as they cant surf the internet means they dont count and can go whistle.

Wouldn't the BBC making a decision that discriminates against a minority (in this case, as you suggest, the visually impaired) be the complete opposite of any kind of 'wokeness'? I'm really baffled by your decision to bring the made up concept of 'wokeness' into this.

I'm afraid the BBC have gone unnecessarily over the top with PC and sadly this will cause a reaction.

How is dropping this politically correct?

It's cringeworthy people calling this decision or any decision to change something "woke".

Feel free to say it's a decision where they only care about the Premier League and not the lower leagues, because they had the opportunity to drop a clichéd manager interview instead to keep in line with the timings but chose against it. Woke though is something it is not and shows anyone using that word doesn't know it's meaning.

[sedwardsdrfc]

Funny how Woke and Snowflake are always used to express outrage at easily offended people. But the people using Woke and Snowflake are always offended by everything!

Tried explaining to my day that he is a snowflake because any change to life as he knows it is met with outrage and offence. But sadly my explaining was deemed Woke preaching because i'm a Millennial so what else could it be!

Learnt my lesson we'll just keep our talks to rovers only in future

[The Beast]

The fight back has begun!:

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/sportsnews/article-11091675/Des-Lynam-slams-BBCs-decision-axe-classified-results-reading.html

Daily Mail criticising the BBC, didn't see that one coming!

[Glyn_Wigley]

Sick of hearing this woke crap, a new buzz word comes out and everybody is repeating it.

Bloody snowflake!