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Reports of FIA pressure on BBC not hire Martin Brundle ?
britishtrident - 23/10/08 at 07:22 AM

Reports of possible Herr Flick & Von Smallhausen witch-hunt (?) against Brundle's Beeb Job ?

I have seen references on a few motor sport sites to moves by the FIA to block or make difficult for the BBC to employ Martin Brundle all the sites reference this article in the Dailly Mail by Charles Sale dated 22nd October 2008

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/ar...vez-affair.html


One can only hope the BBC follows its' welll established practice in not bowing to pressure in such matters.

b4ldd - 23/10/08 at 07:31 AM

Bring back John Watson, when he was on Supersport he was great, Brundle is pale compared to John

YQUSTA - 23/10/08 at 07:33 AM

link isnt finding the article

Fozzie - 23/10/08 at 08:14 AM

'Page no longer available' ......

b4ldd ... I think you are missing the point of the topic.....

Fozzie

MikeRJ - 23/10/08 at 08:52 AM

Non-broken link here.

[Edited on 23/10/08 by MikeRJ]

geoff shep - 23/10/08 at 08:56 AM

Try This or search the Mail site for Brundle!

MikeRJ - 23/10/08 at 09:02 AM

quote:
Originally posted by geoff shep
Try This or search the Mail site for Brundle!


I did both. I found the link you have shown, but it's from July and does not cover the topic and further searching of the Daily Wails site lead nowhere.

designer - 23/10/08 at 09:06 AM

Get the two blocks from Moto GP to do the show. They put all the rest to shame with their PC, 'what a great race, one car passed another' talking.

Don't bring Suzi Perry though. Martin probably needs the money now that DC, his lad, had retired.

designer - 23/10/08 at 09:08 AM

Get the two blocks from Moto GP to do the show. They put all the rest to shame as they say it how it is, none of the the PC, 'what a great race, one car passed another' talking.

Don't bring Suzi Perry though. Martin probably needs the money now that DC, his lad, had retired.

The BBC will be no improvement over ITV.

TOO BADD - 23/10/08 at 09:58 AM

quote:
Originally posted by designer
Get the two blocks from Moto GP to do the show. They put all the rest to shame with their PC, 'what a great race, one car passed another' talking.

Don't bring Suzi Perry though. Martin probably needs the money now that DC, his lad, had retired.


Agreed that Toby and Julian from Moto Gp would be superb. I always watch Gp on Eurosport instead of bbc2. You get a bit of banter thrown in as well !

b4ldd - 23/10/08 at 10:02 AM

quote:
Originally posted by Fozzie
'Page no longer available' ......

b4ldd ... I think you are missing the point of the topic.....

Fozzie


No not missing the point just dont think much of Brundle
Agree with the Eurosport comentators, but dont forget Randy

TOO BADD - 23/10/08 at 10:10 AM

quote:
Originally posted by b4ldd
quote:
Originally posted by Fozzie
'Page no longer available' ......

b4ldd ... I think you are missing the point of the topic.....



Fozzie


No not missing the point just dont think much of Brundle
Agree with the Eurosport comentators, but dont forget Randy


Nearly forgot Randy !Wot a bloke

[Edited on 23-10-08 by Fozzie]

mr henderson - 23/10/08 at 10:15 AM

quote:
Originally posted by b4ldd
quote:
Originally posted by Fozzie
'Page no longer available' ......

b4ldd ... I think you are missing the point of the topic.....

Fozzie


No not missing the point just dont think much of Brundle
Agree with the Eurosport comentators, but dont forget Randy


I thik what Fozzie was getting at is the point of the thread is that an unpopular, external institution is allegedly pressuring the BBC, not the respective qualities of different commentators

John

MikeCapon - 23/10/08 at 10:53 AM

^^^^^^

Unpopular? Only if your car's not red

b4ldd - 23/10/08 at 11:38 AM

quote:
Originally posted by mr henderson
quote:
Originally posted by b4ldd
quote:
Originally posted by Fozzie
'Page no longer available' ......

b4ldd ... I think you are missing the point of the topic.....



Fozzie


No not missing the point just dont think much of Brundle
Agree with the Eurosport comentators, but dont forget Randy


I thik what Fozzie was getting at is the point of the thread is that an unpopular, external institution is allegedly pressuring the BBC, not the respective qualities of different commentators

John


Is this the BBC that does so much advertsing and is not presurised by anybody at all, i think smell the coffee would be an apt phraise

Fozzie - 23/10/08 at 11:38 AM

Brundle, like him or loathe him, at least had the bottle not to toady to the Mr M Mosley antics that sullied the 'sport'.

It isn't about whether or not he is a good commentator, but more like he had the gumption to say what the rest of us were either thinking, or talking about amongst ourselves.

The fact that the FIA are trying to influence the BBC as to who or not they should employ, just leaves an even worse taste!

IMHO of course!

Fozzie

[Edited on 24-10-08 by Fozzie]

James - 23/10/08 at 03:37 PM

quote:
Originally posted by britishtrident
Herr Flick & Von Smallhausen



Brilliant!!!!!

Mix - 23/10/08 at 04:08 PM

Murray Walker................OK I'll get my coat

Failing that Martin gets my vote.

Mick

JoelP - 23/10/08 at 06:52 PM

i like martin a lot and i will be VERY annoyed if he isnt commentating next season.

Will be glad to see the back of allen though!

miikae - 23/10/08 at 08:37 PM

quote:
Originally posted by JoelP
i like martin a lot and i will be VERY annoyed if he isnt commentating next season.

Will be glad to see the back of allen though!


I totally agree plus only racers/ex racers should be allowed to commentate on these programs as they know more about there sport than those other pillocks .

Mike

[Edited on 23/10/08 by miikae]

carpmart - 23/10/08 at 10:03 PM

The 'stop the cock' campaign (sniff petrol) was dear to my heart, at least Allen is out. God I hat that bloke!

Martin gets on well with Bernie 'dwarf' Eccleston so he will be 'allowed' to work at the Beeb next season

Fozzie - 23/10/08 at 10:12 PM

quote:
Originally posted by carpmart
...............Martin gets on well with Bernie 'dwarf' Eccleston so he will be 'allowed' to work at the Beeb next season


So will that mean Ecclestone & Mosley = Handbags at dawn ???????? ......
.......That I would love to see!

Fozzie

[Edited on 23-10-08 by Fozzie]

tweek - 24/10/08 at 12:41 AM

quote:
Originally posted by designer
The BBC will be no improvement over ITV.


iplayer, interactive service, HD, no adverts.

I count 4 very definate improvements there.

Spyderman - 24/10/08 at 11:04 AM

quote:
Originally posted by tweek
quote:
Originally posted by designer
The BBC will be no improvement over ITV.


iplayer, interactive service, HD, no adverts.

I count 4 very definate improvements there.

iplayer - They don't put sport events up on iplayer.

no adverts - where have you been living the past few years? They have loads of adverts, but at least no commercial breaks.

David Jenkins - 24/10/08 at 11:25 AM

quote:
Originally posted by Spyderman

iplayer - They don't put sport events up on iplayer.



I caught up on quite a number of MotoGP events over the past season via iPlayer.

...and the Beeb don't shove adverts in the middle of a race! How many times did ITV come back from an ad break and say "here is today's overtaking manoeuvre that happened while you were away"?

MikeRJ - 24/10/08 at 11:34 AM

quote:
Originally posted by Spyderman
iplayer - They don't put sport events up on iplayer.



http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/categories/sport

Meeerrrk - 24/10/08 at 12:59 PM

i think Martin Brundell makes the ITV F1 coverage work. Imagine if they didnt have him.
that ted kravitz bloke is obviously loathed by all the drivers, they barely even look at him let alone talk to him.

the teams and drivers see brundell as a freind/colleague not as a journalist, which means he gets interviews (ie on the grid) which other reporters dont.
He is very knowlegeable too; dont know if you lot saw all the articles he did where he drove all the different F1 cars of the past & present, no other commentater would have been given that chance thats for sure.

Like him or not, i think he is very valuable to the broadcasters making it a good show.