Do something original

Every morning when I get in to work I spend about an hour going through various websites to get an idea of whats happening that day.

These include pretty much every national British newspaper website apart from the Mirror. Not because I have a vendetta against the Mirror but because they have, by a LONG way the worst website of any British newspaper.

Most of them have started podcasting and blogging of late. The Telegraph, Guardian, The Times and The Sun all have podcasts, as do others.

Most also have at least one sport related podcast but the top three podpapers really haven’t put much imagination into their choices.

The Guardian has a podcast called Football Weekly, The Times have one called The Game and The Telegraph have one called Sport Talk which at least isn’t all football, and they have a Rugby cast.

The most original sport related podcast seems to be from The Sun who at least inject an element of humour with the Bell and Mitchellson offering - but it’s still football.

The problem is, with the exception of Sport Talk from the Telegraph it’s just another round of football podcasts.

There are already a great selection of footie casts from fans on iTunes as well as football related radio shows from BBC and commercial stations AND more football websites, blogs and message boards than any normal person could ever read.

This might just be my opinion because I’m not much of a football fan. OK I’m a fourth generation gooner but I’ve only ever been to see Arsenal play once and only watch football on TV when I go to the pub with workmates when England play.

But I think the point still stands. Why can’t these newspapers put their money and efforts into something a bit different. Why football (and for football read Premiership) all the time. What about a grassroots sport podcasts looking at school sport, sunday leagues and … I dunno … netball!

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