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The reading of the football results at 5pm on a Saturday is part of the BBC’s heritage. To do away with it is absolute madness and I am beside myself about it. What a joke.
I grew up listening to Sports Report and so did so many people of my generation. At tea-time on a Saturday, that was what you did. You turned on the radio and waited to see how your team had got on that day. And if you were a real football fan you listened to every score from every division.
Yes, times have changed. There are different ways to access the scores now. There are different media. I get that. But I worked for the BBC for 25 years and I love it. I also understand it, or at least I thought I did. Certain things should be sacrosanct and this is definitely one of them.
BBC bosses said the decision – made without any notice - had been made to save on time
The pioneer: John Webster reads the classified football results in a tradition that stretched
