On Mon, Aug 20, 2018 at 5:32 AM Adam Bowie <[email protected]> wrote:
> While I can understand the mistaken thinking that says you have to explain > the rules, it tends to talk down to those who already know, and doesn't > really help those who don't want the condescension. Everyone has to "learn" > a sport for the first time, and you do that by just watching it a lot. > The 2010 World Cup was the first time I saw a visual for offsides on replay. They'd freeze the screen when the ball left the attacker's foot and have a white line across the field at the defender's farthest back point and you could see if a player was offsides and it didn't need the announcers to explain. The more you can introduce the new viewer to the rules that way the better. > > Arlo White used to be a good presenter on Five Live, and Lee Dixon still > does work for ITV in the UK. He does Champions' League coverage for ITV, > and international fixtures including their World Cup coverage. He was also > a pretty decent right back for Arsenal. > Dixon's alternate is Graeme Le Saux and they actually worked a three man booth on Saturday. Le Saux is also in the apology video along with White and Dixon. During the NBC broadcast they showed footage from old Arsenal-Chelsea derbies where Dixon and Le Saux fouled each other. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TVorNotTV" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
