AKCJ Posted 28 July 2014 Share Posted 28 July 2014 Is there really any better television on a Saturday morning? It's just something to put on while you get sorted for the Leicester game. Have to laugh at those pretending they don't know it still runs though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Unabomber Posted 28 July 2014 Share Posted 28 July 2014 Wow this still going? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jamesmilner Posted 28 July 2014 Share Posted 28 July 2014 we have some sad fans . just cus you will never be on it , its crap. you must be the ones watching the cooking programs then !! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jace Posted 28 July 2014 Share Posted 28 July 2014 I would rather watch Soccer AM any day than that cheesy bullshit cooking program that Lovejoys on now Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Unabomber Posted 28 July 2014 Share Posted 28 July 2014 I love cooking programs. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HitchinFox Posted 28 July 2014 Share Posted 28 July 2014 So glad that most of us think Soccer AM is wank. Because it is. Of course it is. Having said that, it's the perfect braindead hangover cure if consumed alongside a full English, Lucozade and painkillers.It used to be even better in the days when Helen Chamberlain was still a "definitely would" and you found yourself home alone.Now the Chamberlain factor depends entirely on the level of hangover. Sometimes my eyes are still blurry from the night before... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fez of Mahrez Posted 28 July 2014 Share Posted 28 July 2014 It's a shame it's not on anymore. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Out Foxed Posted 28 July 2014 Share Posted 28 July 2014 still don't get how people like lovejoy. the man is a ****. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Langston Posted 28 July 2014 Share Posted 28 July 2014 still don't get how people like lovejoy. the man is a ****. That's fantastic. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alexikokopops Posted 28 July 2014 Share Posted 28 July 2014 Is there really any better television on a Saturday morning? It's just something to put on while you get sorted for the Leicester game. **** Soccer AM, Saturday Kitchen is the business. Countryfile (pre-prime time back in its Sunday morning slot) was the ultimate hangover watching mind. I would rather watch Soccer AM any day than that cheesy bullshit cooking program that Lovejoys on now Something For The Weekend is it? What a travesty that is. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ronnup Posted 28 July 2014 Share Posted 28 July 2014 You'd be better off listening to Johnny Vaughan on talksport. His Saturday morning show is brilliant. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
65RosesFox Posted 28 July 2014 Share Posted 28 July 2014 If I'm up I watch it, mostly because it p!sses the Mrs off. She can't stand Tubes or Frankie Fryers and gets annoyed when they're on the screen. I mist admit I love watching 'The Showboat' as Knockaert is on it quite a bit, and third eye is still a classic. But overall it's crap TV to watch when your feeling crap. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Voll Blau Posted 28 July 2014 Share Posted 28 July 2014 Still my favourite review of a book ever... Helen Chamberlain’s former sidekick has celebrated leaving Soccer AM for 6.06with a book. Taylor Parkes wants to know why anyone – anyone – thought it was a good idea to expose the presenter’s ego and prejudices across 288 smugly written pages Soccer AM is a bad memory: hungover mornings in other people’s flats, disturbed by a crew of whooping simpletons, the slurping of pro and ex-pro rectums, cobbled-together comedy that made me long for the glory days of Skinner and Baddiel’s old shit. Yet Tim Lovejoy himself, with his fashionably receding hair and voice oddly reminiscent of Rod Hull’s, I remember only as an averagely blokey TV presenter – in fact, one of the few averagely blokey TV presenters to make me clack my tongue in irritation, rather than buff my Gurkha knife. Other than as a namesake of The Simpsons’ self-serving man of the cloth, he barely registered; just a bland, blond ringmaster in a cocky circus of crap. Almost a surprise, then, to find that his new book is not just tedious in the extreme, it is utterly vile. Chopped into “chapters” that barely fill a page, in a font size usually associated with books for the partially sighted, Lovejoy on Football is part autobiography, part witless musing, and one more triumph for the crass stupidity rapidly replacing culture in this country. Hopelessly banal and nauseatingly self-assured, smirkingly unfunny, it’s a £300 T-shirt, a piss-you-off ringtone, a YouTube clip of someone drinking their mate’s vomit. Its smugness is a corollary of its vacuity. I hope it makes you sick. First, it’s clear that being Tim Lovejoy requires a very special blend of arrogance and ignorance. When he’s not listing his media achievements with a breathtaking lack of guile, he’s sneering at those “sad” enough to take an interest in football history, revealing his utter cluelessness about life outside the Premier League (in a section called “Know Your Silverware”, he refers to “League Three”) and making sundry gaffes, major and minor. He names Johan Cruyff as his all-time favourite player, then admits he’s only seen that five-second World Cup clip of the Cruyff turn. Grumbling about footballers’ musical tastes, he complains that “all you’ll hear blasting out of the team dressing room is R&B, rather than what the rest of the country is listening to” – by which he means indie bands. Everywhere there are jaw-dropping illustrations of insularity, self-satisfaction and a startlingly small mind.There’s something sinister here, too: beamingly positive, thrilled by wealth, too pleased with himself to ask awkward questions, Tim Lovejoy is the football fan Sepp Blatter has been waiting for. Roman Abramovich’s darling young one. Not least for his complacency: his lack of understanding of how football works (and doesn’t work) is best illustrated in a section called “Give Your Chairman A Break”, in which he defends “that Thai bloke at Man City”, and implores us to “look at the Glazers... you would have thought they were nothing but a bunch of Americans intent on buying the club and selling off Old Trafford to Tesco judging by the howl of protests from the fans. Within two seasons though, they had won the title and built a squad the envy of Europe.” Bang your head off the wall at such unreviewable stupidity – Tim’s infantile ideas of shunning “negativity” prod him into precisely the kind of thinking that has had such hugely negative influence on the game. “Look across our national team” – he means England, by the way – “and there isn’t one player who wouldn’t walk into any side in Europe... why is it, before every tournament, we start believing we’re overrated?”And, surprise: Lovejoy is as wretched a star****er as could be inferred from his television shows. Everyone in football is Tim’s mate (and here we have pictures to prove it, stars looking confused in his grinning, over-familiar presence, frozen by an arm around the shoulders). He’ll “even watch the occasional game of rugby now, because I’m friends with a lot of the players like Will Greenwood, Matt Dawson, Lawrence Dallaglio and Austin Healy”.It’s perhaps telling that among the many anecdotes offered here, the most heartwarming (and least surprising) involves Tim getting clattered hard by Neil Ruddock in a charity game; even in this version of the story, there’s nothing to suggest Razor meant it affectionately. Still, our man is blinded by quite astonishing hubris, reprinting a photo of a banner at Anfield reading “LOVEJOY SUCKS BIG FAT COCKS” with a glee that is nothing like self-deprecation. “The hardest thing about leaving Soccer AM,” he says regretfully, “is the thought that I might no longer be influencing the game.” True, it’ll be tough. But who knows? Perhaps the game will struggle on.It’s not that there was ever a time when football on telly wasn’t in the hands of dimwits, poseurs and blowhards. It’s not that Lovejoy is significantly more objectionable than TV shits of ages past. The point is, in his own mind and that of the powers that be, he’s one of us. He is us. Savour that. God help us. http://www.wsc.co.uk/the-archive/42-Media/145-no-love-no-joy Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MattGamble92 Posted 29 July 2014 Share Posted 29 July 2014 As mentioned Fenners was the star. What's more annoying about Lovejoy is that he left and did shit like cooking programmes with that bald twonk. Didn't exactly go on to better things anyway. Soccer AM threads are always the same. Someone pretends to not know its still on, most say its shit and then someone defends it by saying like Danny Dyer WHAT ELSE YA GONNA DO ON A SATURDAY? It's true that its probably better than watching Nigel Slater cook a bit of lamb, but that's no excusing it could be so much better and it's dying a long death and has done for about 10 years Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ash79 Posted 29 July 2014 Share Posted 29 July 2014 If I'm not wrestling the tv remote off the daughter it generally goes on in the background and as a rule I only really pay attention when there's football highlights or a player being interviewed... Other than that I'm not too bothered. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marmite Posted 29 July 2014 Share Posted 29 July 2014 Who ever goes on will get criticized and slated by everyone on here you just know it Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Beliall Posted 30 July 2014 Share Posted 30 July 2014 I like it. Its stupid but entertaining. away days usually makes me laugh, but I dont like tubes. Hes a ****ing idiot. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
broughtonblue Posted 30 July 2014 Share Posted 30 July 2014 I quite like it, passes the time. Would I rather watch a cooking programme on the other side? Only if Nigella Lawson was presenting it!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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