So Leicester City have won the English football's Premier League - WELL DONE !
However, this is a story which belongs on the sports' pages and perhaps, at the end of a national news broadcast. It does not belong at the head of the national and international news and does not deserve the wall-to-wall coverage afforded to it by the media, especially the BBC. As a news story, it simply isn't that important, in fact, as a news story, it isn't important at all.
Many years ago, the late Bill Shankly, a very successful manager of Liverpool FC, said something along the lines of :
"Some people believe football is a matter of life and death. I am very disappointed with that attitude. I can assure you it is much, much more important than that".
He was, of course, utterly wrong but, as a football fanatic who'd never really worked in any other sphere for his whole life, football was that important. For the vast majority of the human race, football is just a game over which some if us get excited from time to time but about which we do not obsess. The ludicrously excessive media coverage of Leicester City's triumph merely goes to show how shockingly distorted the values and priorities of our media have become.
