TALK S**T (Talk Sport)

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Product:	Talk Sport
Date:	26/12/01 (178 review reads)
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Advantages: Some good comentaries

Disadvantages: Too much aimless football chat

Talk Sport is probably the most moronic radio station in Britain bar Radio One and its only use is to listen to big matches when Radio Five are covering the alternative. Its broadcasters are washed up pros or knackered hacks no longer entrusted with the proper news with a bottle in the top pocket.
If you do stumble upon the station they are almostly certainly going to a "Darren from Catford" about the pros and cons of Chelsea’s back four 24/7.

It’s a constant flow of endless football talk appealing to white van drivers and the unemployed. The radio station though proudly boasts the unlikely demographics of being the most listened to broadcaster by the thirty something male professional classes. Which doesn’t explain why all the callers seem to be forklift drivers from Wallsall.
As soon as you hear the first ten callers to Alan Brazils second soccer talk show of the day you quickly realize that that bold statement couldn’t be further from the truth.

Tommy Boyd is one of those aging washed up radio pros who is paid to wind up the hapless working classes to ring in and be ridiculed. It makes for good listening late Friday night as drunks, students and wallies get a slaughting.
The other late night slot is reserved for some tedious shock jock from America with the dead mans shift going to an even more anonymous DJ.
The reason i write about it though as that fading old mega star obvious looking to turn a few books over Christmas was given the Christmas Eve morning show.

It didn’t take long for him to get the spoons out like Chas and Dave on an East End knees up. He resorted to the old watch trick where you shout work work work at it and one in a hundred out their start ticking. Shame we cant do that to the council estate just around the corner.
But Uris star status has long since faded like a red giant as only two people called in to say that the spoon fell of the radio and they were
n’t actually in the room when it happened.

The stereotypical forty something mid life crisis im stuck in a boring job punter rang in to tell Gellar of his UFO abduction behind the Sainsburys in Dulwich.
Apparantly you are more "significant"in your dull life if you have a paranormal experience.
Then he went to a diatribe of how he was “visited” by a strange light in Cyprus as a wee kiddy and then zapped in the head with a laser!.
This of course explains the magical powers of the chosen one or international playboy conman, as he’s known by most in the trade.

Psychics like him though all around the world united on September the tenth this year and failed miserably to warn of us the atrocities of the next day. I think this is outrageous and they should all be banged up under the new terrorism laws.
Uri knew of course but forgot to tell us,well he is Jewish you know.

It’s a feasible station if they just played some comedy hours to break the monotony of wall to wall excritiating football chat. They had the cricket commentary last year i believe although they had adverts every over that proved intolerable.
Britain really is short on decent radio stations as we are over run by playlists of dance music and tired old burnt out Smashey and Niceys talking about Darlingtons chances of avoiding the drop. Very dull indeed.

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