Whatever happened to "A Question of Sport" ?
Years ago, this was a genuinely good and interesting sporting quiz, albeit compered by some right idiots in David Coleman and David Vine, surely 2 of the worst sports presenters in television history. However, the teams were good with a degree of intelligence thrown in alongside the occasional knockabout humour. In recent times, all this has changed.
Since the introduction of team captains such as Ally McCoist, Matt Dawson and, most notably Phil Tufnell, the programme has descended into puerile farce though, despite its puerile nature, it's also been scheduled later and later, possibly due to the doubtful nature of much of its content. Team members now seem to be chosen more on the basis of their connection to the BBC or on grounds of political correctness rather than anything else. The boringly regular inanity of the chit-chat allied to the general stupidity exhibited by the current captains has made this programme, once unmissable, now one to be avoided at all costs.
No doubt the BBC would say that all they've done is to 'update' the programme's format to meet the expectations of a modern audience. Well, if that's so, then one despairs for the 'modern audience'. For this viewer, all they've done is to drive him far, far away.
