Highlights ... What highlights

A new era for highlights of the football League with Channel 5 the new owner of the rights in a three-year agreement, interesting.

Soon as the titles hit the screen, I thought to myself we are going to have a problem here. Than the presenters made their appearance and the fans started to clap, and for a second or two I thought I was watching a game show. First why a studio audience? It was a terrible idea and wasn’t anyone at Channel 5 watching the Wimbledon highlights and seen how they screwed up and this was going down that way. I have seen this kind of thing on Sky Sports trying to be all flashy when fans just want to see football and decent after match expert discussion.

The show looked like it had a budget of a Pound Shop and there was too much talking and not enough football. They messed around with the normal format jumping around different divisions meaning you had no continuity. Call me old fashioned but I like to sit back and watch the Championship highlights followed by Division 1, and Division 2.

A point in fact was they opened with the Championship game between Sheffield Wednesday’s win against Bristol City and then jump to Sheffield United’s defeat to Gillingham in League One, puzzled, then I was.

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The league tables display what a joke. Maybe they thought it would be retro but it came over all naff. Couldn’t they afford some graphics or a cheap computer monitor? Come on! It look liked the three divisions had been slapped on three pole dancing poles. Maybe presenter Kelly Cates would be presenting them in a new kind of way later it was past the watershed anyway, she did not.

The presenters were iffy to say the least along with any audience participation. Kelly for me was about the only positives while her partner in crime George Riley was so, so and the poor guy doing a bit of analysing looked like he was out of his depth. They dragged out Barnet manager Martin Allen who looked like he wanted to be anywhere but in that studio.

Than there are the adverts to rile me up and they don’t help was the show with my passion on hate them?

It was very poor compared to the now former BBC's Football League show with the only thing going for it was the 9pm timeslot. It was on at the ridiculous time of 11:50pm when it was on the BBC. It’s the first show so I will give it some time to develop and it will be interesting to see if any changes will be made off the back of all the negativity.

How the former presenters reacted