Lineker's team go for the comic gags on punditry (Image: BBC) Stacey Dooley shares her love for Micah Richards during the Euros Welcome to the summer TV schedule, as sparsely populated as the England front line. If you don’t like politics or football, your personal ITV3 consumption will already have skyrocketed. We now must scour this TV desert for many weeks for any scraps that the TV schedulers happen to have forgotten about which they can toss our way.
Yes, feel free to make the joke. The real pinch point, for non-sports fans, will arrive when strawberries and cream sweeten the offering with Wimbledon. I was once told that the BBC receives more complaints about the tennis tournament than anything else.
If that’s you, just ask BBC Verify if anyone is watching. Then it’s just the Olympics to trundle through. A significant horde of us is watching the Euros Football (BBC1/ITV), around 10m for one England match.
Who wouldn’t? International football served up just after tea-time with quality players on offer. In a surprising move, the BBC have unofficially dropped political correctness so they can ‘bloke up’ this event with a free-for-all on mispronouncing foreign players’ names for comedy value. The best/worst example happened in a pre-match discussion of Albania’s match against Italy, and the player, Jasir Asani.
Pundit Alan Shearer quipped to fellow commentator Micah Richards, ‘You like A-Sarnie, don’t you?!’ Richards laughed, thankfully. He could have c.
