Watching back the goals against Huddersfield on the Official IG account, which have no commentary, only crowd noise, the truly dreadful (at times bordering on adversarial) quality of commentating in the match was put in especially ugly contrast to the immersive energy of hearing fellow blues in the stands as we dismantled the cloggers… err, I mean “proper footballers from the EFL”.
Many of us have been saying this for awhile, but the major broadcasters (including BBC, ITV, NBC, Amazon, and ESPN) need to offer an ‘only crowd noise’ viewing option for all league, cup, and European games. At this point, with the way production is handled for the matches, they already have the “clean” audio channel, and creating an alternative stream on their online platforms (or audio option for their digital broadcasts) would cost next to nothing. We are all already paying an arm, leg, and right bollock to watch our club’s matches across many different services, the least they could do is provide a way to watch that let’s us feel more like we are there in the stadium, rather than say listening to a sermon from two disgruntled buffoons.
by TheConstantCynic
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Amazon actually offers this already but is the only broadcaster I know of doing it
I like watching the Spanish language feed when available.
Some would say that was a terrible challenge but I see nothing wrong with it all.
Akanji has been limping heavily and now has to come off
Can’t control the narrative.
The ESPN announcers yesterday were awful. Not biased, just plain awful. What they were saying most of the match made no sense or they made statements that immediately got proven wrong. Case in point when Gomez was getting treatment for his nose they said “he will be thoroughly checked out before he is let back on the field” as the camera pans to Gomez coming back onto the pitch.
The Scottish colour commentator was truly terrible. One of the worst I have ever heard.