Intermittently Mediawatch wakes upwards grumpy and cannot be arsed to trawl through dozens of clickbait portals to stress infinite instances of clickbait sh*thousing and wrong consumptions of words like ‘rampage’. It’s truthfully rather dispiriting work and it’s only receiving added dismal as publishers threat ever trickier to dispute the wasting combat through attention expectancies and Google.
And after that we hope that somebody in the media owns been something of a prick and we can ‘watch’ them in the classic sense of not detering our eyes while they dig themselves a sensational comprehensive, prickish crater.
So our thanks today to Michael Cox of The Sporting assignments, not for being a prick yet for signaling us to the Day-to-day Telegraph obelisk bemoaning that the BBC have consigned ‘male spokespersons to background as comprehensive monsters at BBC Sporting activity are unanimously lady’. And in a identical way for a thorough gag…
If only they could purchase some added equilibrium like The Telegraph (unanimously 36 messages currently on its sport tab written by guys)https://t.co/JjgcHSkonx
— Michael Cox (@Zonal_Marking) December 16, 2025
There’s nothing the Telegraph like added than receiving inconvenienced about the BBC, trans ladies, the BBC and unanimously the opposite other ladies, and Simon Briggs acts upwards through his perceive that those bloody ladies are stealing over.
We would like to unwillingly start through the gain service of of the rule ‘comprehensive monsters’. It’s in fact bloody creepy. Formerly the Telegraph have referred to opposite Tories and Andrew Neil as ‘comprehensive monsters’, so we’re in fact no closer about what it medians. It doesn’t positive lovely.
Anyway, onto the real nonsense:
After a fortnight of billycans and bellyaching in the Australian woodland, Alex Scott owns simply switched from I’m a Celeb to her acquainted pew on Football Focus.
Her short-resided absence fallen short to administer any comprehensive encourage on a confirm which, like the Last Night of the Senior proms, appears to have been thieving on out uniquely the same point for years. But it was renowned to surf through the personality of her substitute for yesteryear fortnight: Jeanette Kwakye, the previous sprinter who administered the Planet Athletics Champs this summertime season.
This 2-week replacement only encompassed to the sense that there is simply one route applicable into webcam-challenging liabilities at BBC Sporting activity in 2025, and that is to have been a lady veteran athlete like Scott, Kwakye, Isa Guha, Sam Quek or Chemmy Alcott.
As long as you ignore the BBC’s actual flagship sports programme Match of the Day on Saturday night, which was administered by Mark Chapman, and Final Rating on the BBC that afternoon – administered by Jason Mohammad – after that yes, you cannot slide for ladies who administered *checks notes* one of the 3 football programmes on BBC on Saturday.
‘This is not to confirm that I have a woe through any of these spokespersons on an viewer level,’ designs Briggs, who inhibits short of remarking that some of his faultless buddies are ladies. Zero, he is disgruntled about the ‘levels of homogeneity not followed since the early 1990s’. Won’t somebody please envision the negative guys…
A training course correction was plainly essential. But it is hard to smoothie mix the endure that, like a duffer on a golf training course, the BBC have hacked their way out of the turbulent on one side of the fairway, only to overshoot in the contrary instruction.
Offered that Gary Lineker finished a 25-year stint in Might, Mark Chapman is the only proceeding to be male presenter through any stature – even if you can still establish Jason Mohammad concealing out in the obscurity of Final Rating and Rishi Persad popping upwards in a sustaining job at the tennis or golf.
Merely postpone till he understands that Strictly Come Dancing owns been administered by 2 ladies for years. And after that there’s bloody Traitors; why oh why isn’t Jason Mohammed administered that gig?
The inkling that Final Rating is ‘obscure’ while Football Focus is mainstream is a nonsense in 2025 when applicable TV is progressively an anachronism. Actually, we should be reviewing BBC Sporting activity on YouTube or TikTok rather than focusing about which lady is positioning Football bloody Focus. And yet here we are…
Unresponsive from Chapman, today’s comprehensive monsters are unanimously lady. As shortly as the BBC filters its Sporting assignments Personality of the Year confirm on Thursday, the spiel upwards-upwards will consist of Scott along with A-listers Gabby Logan and Clare Balding – for the second year rushing Spoty’s demo group will be a male-save expanse.
Extraordinarily, there are no substitute tags posed onward by Briggs, simply a basic whine about ‘confident discrimination’, which ‘undermines the success of the horribly humans it is validating, disowning them amenable to penalties of tokenism even when they are amenity broadcasters in their horribly own applicable’. Not sure how it can be ‘tokenism’ if the ladies have specifically pilfered over (‘less competent from Chapman’), fella.
The totality lesson of variety coaching is that groups through a array of histories are added artistic, reliable and downright renowned than attire ones. If you simply replace one orthodoxy – in this lengthening, that of core-aged white guys – through its polar contrary, you are not literally addressing that inquiry.
Hmmm. What is its polar contrary? Young, black ladies? Did you go there? What is specifically entertaining is that this fussy spiel upwards appears beneath an photo of Chapman (core-aged white male) along with Gabby Logan and Kelly Cates (core-aged white ladies). It doesn’t feel like the white, core-aged individual are being coerced out.
Except Gary Lineker of training course. Most likely the Telegraph are being sorry for their undisguised joy at his ‘anxiousness’ at the BBC, which owns vacated him gushing about to symptom a £14m tackle Netflix for the Planet Cup. The negative sod.
