Latest Scott Murray Stories

• No News Is Bad News For the Likes of Sky Sports News
• By Scott Murray 25/7/2010 8:51 AM GMT
• With the World Cup over and the season still a few weeks away, it's a fallow period for football. Not that you'd know it tuning in to Sky Sports News, where breaking nonsense never stops. ALEX ... More »
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• Enough Clough Already: Ten Old-School Managers Who Deserve Documentaries
• By Scott Murray 20/7/2010 10:26 AM GMT
• Brian Clough was the best manager England never had. We know this because BBC2 have just spent an hour telling us. Twice. Using the same documentary. Over two nights. Along with a screening of ... More »
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• World Cup 2010 Cynic's Guide: 10 Reasons Why the Whole Shebang Was a Waste of Time
• By Scott Murray 13/7/2010 6:18 AM GMT
• 1. We had to watch it all on television, for an effing start. The BBC – the national broadcaster, let's not forget – was an egregious disgrace. Ahead of Algeria v Slovenia, the Alans ... More »
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• Why No One Should Blame Luis Suarez for His Instinctive Hand-to-Ball Act
• By Scott Murray 06/7/2010 9:36 AM GMT
• Where were you when Luis Suarez handled the ball? It's a question that'll be asked through the ages, one to add to a list containing: "where were you when Diana died?", "where were you when the twin ... More »
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• Whisper It but Sepp Blatter Was Right to Oppose Introduction of Video Technology
• By Scott Murray 29/6/2010 6:12 AM GMT
• The footage is never shown along with the contemporary real-time commentary these days, because it doesn't quite fit in with the narrative that has built up over time, the received wisdom. But when ... More »
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• Lineker, Hansen and Shearer Know Exactly How Much They Don't Know About What
• By Scott Murray 20/6/2010 10:32 AM GMT
• It's taken some going for the BBC to have proved themselves more inept than ITV at this World Cup; to be No. 2 in a field of two behind a broadcaster that missed England's opening goal at the ... More »
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• In Defence of Vuvuzelas: They're Not Half as Bad as Bellowing James 'Effing' Corden
• By Scott Murray 13/6/2010 5:46 AM GMT
• So the party's started. And no doubt you'll already be sick to the back teeth of that constant noise, the never-ending drone, that elongated whine guaranteed to set the teeth on edge. Yes, the ... More »
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• Sky Sports News Sets New Standard for Breaking Stories One Step at a Time
• By Scott Murray 05/6/2010 1:01 PM GMT
• So it's been a busy week in Purgatory, the 24-7, 365 days a year enterprise otherwise known as Sky Sports News, where recently the stories have been coming thick and fast. Sky, as is their wont, have ... More »
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• Another ITV Shocker Has Some Hoping for a Swift Change of Tone
• By Scott Murray 29/5/2010 10:07 AM GMT
• How long does it take to lose your patience? Before you consider toe-poking your boot through the television screen, a delicious mix of Pauline Kael and David Narey? An average of five seconds, ... More »
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• TV Blackout of Looming European Cup Final Reminiscent of 1980s Approach
• By Scott Murray 22/5/2010 10:20 AM GMT
• On Wednesday 27 May 1987, the line-up on ITV – Britain's then most-watched television station – was as follows: 7.00 Victorian Values with Bamber Gascoigne 7.30 Coronation Street 8.00 ... More »
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• Nothing Like a Blazing Row to Brighten Up an Otherwise Dull Programme
• By Scott Murray 15/5/2010 10:47 AM GMT
• Yann Kermogant tried his utmost, but television's comedic highlight of the week had nothing whatsoever to do with football. It did at least involve a football columnist, mind you: FanHouse UK's very ... More »
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• Only on ESPN: 'What Do You Think I Am Doing Here, Wolfgang? ... Now Sod Off'
• By Scott Murray 08/5/2010 8:49 AM GMT
• In a world already blessed with Tim Lovejoy, the 2 Good 2 Bad segment on Match of the Day 2, the cartoons of Kerber and Black, and Tim Lovejoy, it takes a special kind of talent to stand out as a ... More »
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• Hard to Imagine These Days But ITV Football Was Once Really Rather Good
• By Scott Murray 01/5/2010 10:07 AM GMT
• Upon reading the following statement, anyone under the age of 25 may consider punching themselves square in the face, just to check they're still living in the real world. It's true, nonetheless: ITV ... More »
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• Departure of Adrian Chiles Presents MOTD2 Producers With Unlikely Chance
• By Scott Murray 24/4/2010 10:21 AM GMT
• It was the most impressive display of distance throwing seen in Britain since the glory decade of Tessa Sanderson, Geoff Capes and Fatima Whitbread, the toys coming out of Adrian Chiles's pram like ... More »
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• Let Them Blurt: Who's the Best-Looking of All Worth Debating In Some Quarters
• By Scott Murray 17/4/2010 12:38 PM GMT
• Without any shadow of a doubt, the best interviews in the history of All Football were conducted by Chelsea's in-house television station, Pravda TV, back in 2007. In case you didn't see them at the ... More »
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• Commentators Up in Arms Over What Typical Germans Are Really Like
• By Scott Murray 10/4/2010 9:48 AM GMT
• It was a great week for English football in the Champions League. This is not admittedly apparent if you're just looking at the bottom line: Arsenal suffered their latest annual humiliation, ritually ... More »
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• That's Gotta Hurt: Wayne Rooney Twists an Ankle and the Nation Holds Its Breath
• By Scott Murray 04/4/2010 10:46 AM GMT
• When Wayne Rooney limped off in the dying seconds of Manchester United's capitulation at Bayern Munich the other night, a nation took a sharp intake of breath and feared the worst. Because it looked ... More »
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• Rediscovering the Lost Art of Baying For a Struggling Manager's Head
• By Scott Murray 28/3/2010 10:15 AM GMT
• Back in the 1990s, around a third of the Premier League's managers would be ousted from their jobs by the turn of the year. More often than not, at least two or three would have bitten the dust before ... More »
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• Footballing Scribes as the Saving Graces of the Modern Game
• By Scott Murray 21/3/2010 10:48 AM GMT
• Unless you've spent the last fortnight living under a rock in a damp cave on the southernmost tip of Bouvet Island, where it's a bugger to pick up any reception on your dongle, you should by now be ... More »
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• The Big Match Was One Football Highlights Programme Worth Revisiting
• By Scott Murray 14/3/2010 10:03 AM GMT
• Hidden away on the farthest reaches of your EPG – your Sky box's Electronic Programme Guide (that name never really caught on, did it?) – is a channel called Men & Motors. As you'd ... More »
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