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BBC Response re Alan Green
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Dear Mr Taylor Thank you for your e-mail regarding coverage of the recent derby between Everton and Liverpool on 27 September. Please accept our apologies for the delay in replying. We know our correspondents appreciate a quick response and are sorry you have had to wait on this occasion.
I understand you disliked the commentary Alan Green during this broadcast and note that you felt he was biased against Everton. BBC journalists and presenters are well aware of our commitment to impartial reporting. However, it's in the nature of commentating and punditry that programme contributors are expected to provide their personal view on the action and events surrounding the match they are watching.
All we can expect of them is a fair assessment based on their own knowledge and experience. We regularly employ a range of commentators, alternating between them and other guest contributors, to provide as wide a range of views as we can and to help cater to different tastes.
It would be a very rare radio personality of any kind who met with the approval of everyone in our vast and varied audience, and from the heavy correspondence which we receive it is clear that viewers' and listeners' opinions on them do vary considerably. BBC Sport regularly receives both positive and negative feedback about individual commentators and presenters used in our programmes.
We do pro-actively research viewer opinions about our presentation teams as well as monitoring complaints. If we receive only negative reaction and feedback then we would certainly look to address this. I would therefore like to assure you that we have registered your comments on our audience log. This is the internal report of audience feedback which we compile daily for all programme makers and commissioning executives within the BBC, and also their senior management. It ensures that your points, and all other comments we receive, are circulated and considered across the BBC.
Thanks again for contacting us.
Regards
Stuart Webb
BBC Complaints
Not really worth the wait. Something fairly standard about the email. They are happy with Alan Green being a twat.
Craig Taylor, Posted 23/10/2008 at 12:46:43
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Thing is, no-one likes Alan Green, he’s a contentious oaf.
If you step back from being an Evertonian you’ll soon realise that he’s being snidy towards everybody. Just not nice broadcasting.
What then happens is, if your team are shite, you blame the ref, if you get no satisfaction there, blame Alan Green. Its what keeps 5LIve afloat.
They must get that many emails from Blues about him they have a template for it!
Answer is turn off 5live and dont listen to anything on it. Surely the internet provides access for exiled blues to get commentary somewhere else. eg radio city etc.
Thats why he’s biased.
The whole game was litterred with exchanges like :
Green - Torres is being booked for diving, that is ridiculous, he just lost his footing.
Lawrenson - No, it was a dive.
Green - That was a disgraceful tackle on Torres, I can’t believe that it isn’t a booking.
Lawrenson - No, he didn’t touch him.
Green - The manchester crowd are despicable with their "murderers" chants.
Lawrenson - But the Liverpool fans have been singing about Munich.
That isn’t word for word, but it the whole commentary followed that pattern.
It comes to something when an ex- Red has to try to tone down the man’s rabid, (he really did sound as though he was foaming at the mouth throughout), and blatantly biased ranting. The BBC should employ a commentator who is neutral, or who at least tries to convey some semblance of impartiality. Alan Green sounds like some chav on Sky fanzone when he commentates on the Reds.
It is not even worth wasting our energy on talking about him!
End of story!
I really like Lawro and as ex red media pundits go, I also really like The Saint, loved him on St and greavsie, as i kid that was my bright spot on a saturday if we lost (which was not that often as it was the 80?s). He is top class on terrace talk!
Cannot think of any any other former red players that are top drawer though!
www.toffeeweb.com/season/07-08/comment/fan/article.asp?submissionID=5552 - 77k -
We were awful that day, no two ways about it.
Complaining to the BBC is going to do fuck-all squared as they love his controversial spiel and the way he winds up fans of all teams, including Liverpool as he even slags them off when they deserve it.
Nick Armitage
Lets hope you don?t have to wait too long.....
I get the vast majority of my live football intake from 5 Live, I hear a lot of Green and in all honesty I have never perceived an anti-Everton agenda on his part. Are some of us getting a bit blinkered about him ourselves here?
The irony is that you could understand a former player rooting for his old club (and people like Lawro rise above that temptation and become professional in their performance) but a slob like Green doesn’t seem to have the intelligence to realise that his value to the world of football comes somewhere below that of a programme seller.
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