Today's Outrage: Outraged Football Fans are Outraged

The other day I was banging on about how useless the BBC is when it comes to getting opinions from the general public through it's "Have your Say" section on BBC Online due to the moronic comments is attracts.






Well it seems that BBC Radio Five Live isn't just as bad, it's even worse. Rather than asking a suitable question and letting it get taken over by idiots, Five Live start with a stupid question and then take the results of that to get comments from one of their multitude of 'experts'.

In this instance, they devised a poll asking if England manager Steve McLaren was suitable for the job. Nothing wrong with that at first glance. But then you learn that the poll was started immediately after England's loss to Croatia.
The result? A host of disgruntled England fans phoning / texting / clicking about how disgruntled they the Sun had told them to be about England's performance.

Ignoring the fact that this happened to be a very tough game against a very good side, one which England were probably going to lose anyway before you consider that England had players missing through injury and suspension , what were the Beeb actually trying to achieve? They most likely knew that asking a group full of football fans after a defeat would get a reaction and so, in a typical act of lazy, poor quality journalism, they exploited that to give them a story to run a few days later.

Next weeks poll - We go into a packed council estate pub at 11:00pm on Friday and ask "Who wants a fight?". Find out the results next week.