Today JOE is feeling… suicidal##
Famed for its unrivalled ability to stretch meaningless twaddle into 15-minute bulletins, Sky Sports News is the occasionally useful answer to whether sports news can be stretched and reported ad infinitum by increasingly insincere newscasters – just because it can, doesn’t mean it should.
A regular fixture in the JOE office, Sky Sports News can be a great tool of the journalism trade – it even cuts to Cricket news to remind you to stop staring at the TV and do some work. As football fans can attest though, SSN goes right into overdrive on the days of transfer deadlines or World Cup squad announcements, with today being no exception. Cutting to adverts with cheery anchormen shouting – “WHO WILL GO? WHO WILL GO FABIO??†the station devoted hours of airtime to the eternal head-scratcher of our time – Leighton Baines or Stephen Warnock for back-up left-back?
Once the squad was finally announced (a bloody hour late), it was time to cease the endless speculation of who would make it onto the plane to endlessly speculate over what shape the newly-fangled side would take in the coming weeks. Bah, give us Cricket any day.
