Notes and links from Wed 15 July

Status: A light pottering day today. Tidied the kitchen a bit. Thought about how much the football commentary annoyed me last night. Didn’t do much else. OK, I’ll bite. In short, commentary for big sporting events that take over mainstream channels should contextualise and explain to the viewer what it going on and not assume that viewer has been following the minutiae of said sport in the months and years prior this big event. Football commentators do not do this. Commentators for other sports and similar big niche events have their flaws but at least at Wimbledon, Crufts, the Olympics, they make a fucking effort to address a broad audience that is genuinely curious about what’s going on. Don’t moan about what in your clearly superior opinion the players should be doing using insider terminology and jargon. Tell me why they did what they did so I can make Amy own judgement. Also, Ally McCoist is perfectly capable of talking in a clear and enunciated way when it suits him, he just…