If I spot an obvious mistake on the Beeb's sports pages I usually send them a quick note via their feedback pages. So far they've paid attention and corrected the bloopers. Today I spotted one in this football story. In the following paragraph they originally said Troussier coached South Korea in the last World Cup:
Qatar national manager Phillipe Troussier - the Frenchman who coached Japan in the last World Cup - has been trying to naturalize overseas players discarded by their national teams.
When I wrote to them I asked if they could change it to "the Frenchman who was Japan's disappointing manager in the last World Cup", but you can see that they declined. They obviously never saw Troussier's team play or they would have written 'Japan's crap manager' without any prompting from me.
Posted by Joe at March 19, 2004 12:02 AMsurely, when Zico would have been around at that time, Japan would have won the tournament alltogether.
...right?
Posted by: steven at March 23, 2004 09:22 PMNow that's a good one Steven. We've talked about what I think of Zico. Right? He is going to take Japan nowhere and very likely not to Germany 2006!
Posted by: Joe at March 23, 2004 10:06 PM