How shit was that? Nov. 22, 2006

… the coverage by ITV television on terrestrial tv for everybody to see of one of our showcase British football games in memory. Even more shit than usual. Complete and utter shit and not just a bit shit. They do shit as an art form. Just as, when the crowd broke into an unbelievable chorus and visual spectacle of scarves held high to Never Walk Alone, ITV cut to the adverts. They should have held this special moment – held it on their screens for all football fans to savour. Something beautiful, historic …a remarkable moment trashed … not even time given to postmatch reaction from the two managers Ferguson and Strachan who would have been highly emotional at such a moment.

And the match as a whole, like all their matches, treated as if an interruption in the adverts.

Manchester United as usual had thrilled and Celtic had overcome, somehow. Brilliant brilliant stuff.