Is There No Escape?

The television schedules are still going to be butchered, for a football tournament in which these islands literally have no interest.

It is within my recollection that the media decided that a complete obsession with football should replace the actual culture of this country, to the ruin of both. Uneducated, drunken, drug-addled, obscenely overpaid wife-beaters and gang-rapists are now held up as national heroes, despite not even being any good at their "jobs", as the failure to qualify for this competition amply demonstrates.

And did you see that extraordinary event in Portsmouth yesterday? At least half of the people there looked like they had decided to spend a nice Sunday afternoon at the park, and were somewhere between thoroughly disconcerted and simply bored stiff to find this thing going on instead. The compere kept trying to get the crowd to engage in football chanting, but almost nobody joined in.

Television schedulers (among others), take note.