I used to like the BBC sport football website as it was a good place to go to get footy news that was both true and meaningful. But over the last year or two it has stooped to tabloid levels. The main headline articles over this period seem to mainly feature some ex player thinking about something. Just recently we have had a succession of headlines about how someone we'd forgotten existed thinks that Gareth Bale should or shouldn't go to Madrid.

 

This is a follow on from last years relentless headlines about someone we'd never even heard thinking that John Terry should or shouldn't be punished for something.

 

It's just very disappointing that the one site where you thought you could avoid pointless sh*t is now pedaling mainly pointless sh*t.

The app is the same, difficult to find anything worth looking at! There seems to be a lowering of the standards generally; Lineker aside, the MoTD cast is abominable!

Went to sh*t when they got rid of 606. 

 

To expand further, that's where the rumours and such were posted to avoid clogging up the main pages with nonsense.

Edited August 2, 201312 yr by Remodez

The app is the same, difficult to find anything worth looking at! There seems to be a lowering of the standards generally; Lineker aside, the MoTD cast is abominable!

 

The worst of the MOTD cast,- Mark Lawrenson- is having a severely reduced role in this season's MOTD, thankfully. About time! Can't stand his deadpan delivery and ridiculous 'observations'!

 

In terms of the BBC sport pages, you're right Snedger, it's pretty bad at the moment. The Wayne Rooney stories about him being linked to us could have been taken straight from The Sun's pages. And don't get me started on Phil McNulty...

I used to look forward to MOTD, even taping it or setting my alarm for the Sunday (way too early) repeat. For the last 2-3 years I don't bother anymore. The Lawrenson-Hansen duo is sickening, the old mates "haha you're wonderful, no you are" mutual admiration society nauseates me. Only sporadically a compliment to other players than Liverfool ones - never mind Chelsea players - come out. Bah.

Edited August 2, 201312 yr by Valerie

The haven't even updated the score for the Milan match.  I know it's only a friendly, but they've kept abreast of all other big friendlies - but not even on the Chelsea page does it say we won.  I was just interested to see what neutrals said about the match but nada!

I used to look forward to MOTD, even taping it or setting my alarm for the Sunday (way too early) repeat. For the last 2-3 years I don't bother anymore. The Lawrenson-Hansen duo is sickening, the old mates "haha you're wonderful, no you are" mutual admiration society nauseates me. Only sporadically a compliment to other players than Liverfool ones - never mind Chelsea players - come out. Bah.

 

There is only one man that can make MOTD great again................and that is Pat Nevin

So glad I am not the only one who has noticed their slide.

 

Used to be BBC was the last (and by far MOST TRUSTWORTHY) place to publish signings. They had sources and didnt go to press with anything unless it was a done deal.

 

Now, there is a new lead football story every day, and to make that happen they have enlisted these idiots like Ben Smith (had never heard of him until a few weeks ago, going with this mata for Rooney story) who basically take the heat for the lack of credibility with their pieces. Makes me yearn for their writers who I grew tired of, like Phil McNulty.

 

Soccernet went the same way. Faceless drones with fake sounding names like Harry Harris and David Hershey started with all sensationalism all the time. Sadly this model is winning because of the page clicks. Just another part of the death of real journalism.

What about SkySports? I find them quite good and reliable.

There is only one man that can make MOTD great again................and that is Pat Nevin

Why go for Wee Pat when you can give Carjacker a job? Looks like it's one COSCH* out and one in. Must be BBC policy.

 

 

 

 

*Clapped-out Scouse centre-half.

Its pathetic isnt it? I preferred it when they wrote less when they had little to say, rather than rehash tabloid horse sh*t just to get a few hits.

Edited August 3, 201312 yr by Zola

They're at it again today. Now it's what Paul Ince thinks about Rooney. It does seem as if this is a deliberate policy change at the BBC and that they have decided that competing with the tabloid websites is the way forward. And as usual, by pandering to the lowest common denominator it is those of us who prefer to read some facts in the sea of fiction that lose out.

 

And really, who the f**k cares if Paul Ince thinks that Rooney needs to curl one out on to Moyes' desk in order to get a transfer or whatever ludicrous rubbish the article contains.

They're at it again today. Now it's what Paul Ince thinks about Rooney. It does seem as if this is a deliberate policy change at the BBC and that they have decided that competing with the tabloid websites is the way forward. And as usual, by pandering to the lowest common denominator it is those of us who prefer to read some facts in the sea of fiction that lose out.

 

And really, who the f**k cares if Paul Ince thinks that Rooney needs to curl one out on to Moyes' desk in order to get a transfer or whatever ludicrous rubbish the article contains.

 

I said it in a previous thread. These types of articles are just "click bait", article of no substance what so ever but designed to get high traffic volumes, especially by opening them up to comments which is uncalled for because what is there to actually comment on?

 

The BBC Sports pages are funded by the license fee so I see no reason to constantly regurgitate the same story over and over, for about a month now the lead stories have been about Rooney, Suarez and Bale nearly all the time. 

 

If there isn't a big story to run with, they don't have to make something up, why Remy joining Newcastle on loan (actual Premier League signing, not speculation) can't be the lead story is lost on me.

 

Instead it's an ex-player talking about his club maybe selling someone. 

 

Bah!

Totally agree with OP.

 

Is it a coincidence that the Manchester love in and strange speculative articles started to appear once they had moved the sport offices up to Manchester??

 

I would bet they employed loads of mancs and that is a large part of it all.

 

I use sky more than the bbc now, Even if they do over report practically everything!