Analysing football analysis

Jonny Brick looks at how the modern game is portrayed and suggests we need more than just 'Bantz'

Last September, Times writer Alyson Rudd hit the nail on the head with her comments that focussed on the audience of football media. Although BBC 5 Live seeks to ‘draw in a new, younger audience’, such people are ‘busy with You-Tube and social media’. Why, when TV serves an older audience, is radio trending young, and why are they so interested in appointing various Archbishops of Banterbury?
Bantz, which Aly notes is ‘not even a proper Scrabble word’, lowers football analysis to an appreciati...

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