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Martin Kelner, who likes his rugby league, has written quite amusingly about this non-event in today’s Guardian. The West Ham gag’s the best bit …
Nobody, to the best of my knowledge, ever said that he who is tired of rugby league is tired of life but Sky put the theory to the test at the weekend with its ill-conceived Millennium Magic, featuring seven matches over two days in an eerily half-empty stadium.
Sky does its best in these circumstances, enhancing the sound and choosing crowd shots from the more populous areas of the ground, but there was no disguising the fact that having weighed up the attractions of a couple of days in Cardiff on a February weekend, the North had mostly decided against.
It meant that fixtures that are full of passion and intensity when played on home turf were drained of atmosphere, something that was undoubtedly reflected in the players’ performances. Watching West Ham fans might have seen it as a frightening portent of a possible future. What made it worse for the TV audience was that those of us with fresh batteries in the remote control and a limited attention span found ourselves flipping between the rugby league and the Six Nations on the BBC, simply to relish the sound and fury of Murrayfield …
Full text here http://www.guardian.co.uk/sport/blog/2011/feb/14/millennium-magic-rugby-league
I only saw a few clips, but by god, the ground was almost empty. I’m sure they could of only used one stand.
February, traditionally a month where most people are still watching the pennies after Christmas and New Year.
A very damp squib.,
It frightens me that one day they’ll start messing about with football in this way. They’ll be playing games like United V Liverpool in Qatar, one day. I can see the excuse being to ‘whet the appetite’ of the nation for the World Cup. Some daft idiots will fly all that way for the game, but I think a few people will walk away from the game, if it ever happens.
why what happened over weekend at the milenium?Tom Jones was on :roll: :roll: :roll:
why what happened over weekend at the milenium?
Tom Jones was on :roll: :roll: :roll: [/quote]
That’s not unusual…….Well somebody had to say it!
it’s a load of P1.SSY W.A.NK ! perhaps there was a all lot more there but they(W.a.Nk.staines just could not pull them selves away from the food stalls :animals-chickencatch: (JOKE SPORT) followed by 90% halfwits. your in the 10% Egg by the way.
Alas it appears that both Millenium Magic and the FA Cup are treated equally with disdain by the Wigan public. The only difference being that Cardiff is a 250 mile round trip and the game was on TV.
Millenium magic towel trick :shock: :shock:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7bXKnlshz70
:scared-eek: :scared-eek: :sad-roulette: :sad-roulette:
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