| There was widespread relief
throughout Scotland this week on the news that UK TV companies had secured terrestrial
rights for next year's World Cup. A joint spokeslens for ITV and BBC
broke the good news to the world's press, "It’s a great day for British
football, now fans the length and breadth of the country can really get behind England's
world cup campaign." He said without any apparent sense of irony.
Footie fans north of Berwick echoed the enthusiasm of their English cousins.
Barely able to contain his excitement, one ecstatic punter told the JT: "This is
really good news. Wall to wall coverage 24/7 on every channel of the brave struggle of the
English lads to emulate the soccer success of their country sometime in the last century.
Christ all bloody mighty, I can hardly wait…"
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There was however a potential
problem looming as worried Scottish TV chiefs warned fans that the Scottish media may have
to opt out of the UK deal. "For technical reasons that I've just
made up, all Scottish based TV stations may have to be off the air for most of June 2002.
Which would unfortunately mean that we'd lose transmission of some World Cup matches -
more specifically those games involving England where there's an outside chance they might
scrape a win," a not at all worried looking spokeschurl told the JT.
There was a glimmer of hope however that, should England's progress come down to
a penalty shoot out, transmission would be miraculously restored as the nation waits to
find out the identity of the hapless player responsible for skying the kick and consigning
England to the dustbin of soccer history. |
