Media Whores or Pimp My Match

Listening to the BBC panel after the Paraguay match you would have though we had lost the match rather than won it. Yes, we didn't play well, yes, the heat got to us, yes, Michael Owen isn't fit but hey - Sven changed to a 4-1-4-1 with Owen Hargreaves playing the anchor role and it worked.

At least Terry Butcher told it as it was on 5Live when he said "Who cares about the tactics in the last game, we got three points and have to move on." Butcher did get one thing wrong, as did many pundits except Adrian Durham, it wasn't England fans booing Hargreaves it was German fans booing a Bayern Munich player.

Gabrielle Marcotti made the point onTalkSport last week when he said it was the medias job and duty to stir up interest before and during the World Cup even if there wasn't anything to report. The BBC must have been listening and trying to justify the huge expense and sheer numbers involved in their coverage by constantly recycling the same debate. Incidentally I have to say Martin Jol was brilliant for the Holland game, I used the BBC interactive button and choose 5Live's commentary instead of the T.V and it was refreshing to hear somebody so honest and forthright.