Football results on Sky

[Leicesterbaggie]

This afternoon I listened to the football results being read on Sky Sports, by a woman. Actually, I don’t have a problem with that per se but it was the total lack of any feeling or interest in her voice that made it a difficult listen. The real annoyance, though, was her failure to properly read out the names of the teams, for example, she read ‘Colchester’ instead of ‘Colchester United’, and ‘Burton’ instead of ‘Burton Albion’. Totally disrespectful. How do such useless people manage to land these jobs?

Then there is Gary Neville, it’s ‘Liverpool’, not ‘Liverpewel’ you tw@t!

Thought exactly the same. It’s not because it was a woman but the way that she did it. For a start she rushed through the results as if she needed to get somewhere else in a hurry. Secondly, the intonation in her voice whatever the result was.We are used to knowing the result by the reader’s intonation who had won or if it was draw even if no numbers were involved.