Bloody Gary...

YABU

Football is to many people, far more important than politics

This is a worry.

Meh. I don't like football and have been watching the election coverage but I think it's fine. They wouldn't have been saying much different 45 minutes earlier last night, and they have a news channel and website with live streaming for anyone who didn't want to wait.

I would be raging if coverage of a key contest on a sport I do follow was cut short at that point! Fair enough if it was the exit poll or something, but by 10pm last night the result had been known for 24 hours and the key cabinet appointments made in the afternoon and early evening. There wasn't really anything new to say.

I was more concerned that Emmerdale was cancelled
How very dare they!!

lol. Busey? He’s a bit bonkers, I reckon it could be his fault..

Is that you Rishi? Had to cancel your sky and now have to rely on council news at 10 rather than the 24h news channels.

Hmmm, let's see... There had been constant election broadcasting from 10pm on Thursday night, all through the day on Friday, plus news channels broadcasting 24hour coverage. Did you not have access to any of that, nor iPlayer, nor the BBC News website?

The Euros are on once every four years and it's approaching the final stages. So the choice is "Shall we show the live penalty shoot out between two big footballing nations in a competition that takes place once every four years, or shall we cut it off to show something that's already happened and been covered non stop for nearly 24 hours?". They made the right choice

Probably because in an era of streaming, and online news, live sports and events are one of few things which has value in being played live. Personally the only things I’ve sought out on live TV in the last year have been gymnastics world and European championships, Bake Off and the election results from last night. I’ll watch the Olympics too. I have very little interest in other scheduled programming and don’t feel a need to watch it live if a programme does sound interesting to me.

If only that's where the near constant sport stayed - on the many sports channels.
Sport seems to be on most main channels at the moment.

It's the fault of Ronaldo and Mbappe surely?

The Germany - Spain game went over time too, is Gary responsible for that too? 😂

And Henley...

By the fact that you can access Mumsnet - I assume you can also access iplayer or the BBC news website. Or one of the many many 24hr news platforms.

Surely you knew the election result before 10pm last night.
I don't watch a lot of telly so am not sure which (out of the 5 million) channels had election news.
Radio 4 would have been covering it at 10pm.

Calm down
We had wall to wall coverage all day, 45 mins without was a blessed relief.
And I can't stand football

Did you somehow manage to not see the election result for 17 hours?!

It's not Gary (or the BBC's) fault that you're at least 24 hours behind the rest of the world.

Gosh it’s like 24 hr news channels don’t exist

wasn’t aware Gary was actually playing - causing it to go to extra time and penalties and also responsible for scheduling decisions

Why is it Gary's fault? The matches at this point of the competition can always go into extra time, you can still watch the news elsewhere.

OP, I guess you could have caught up via the news on iPlayer. But, to be fair, irrespective of the election it was a lousy evening's TV yesterday on the main channels if you're not keen on sport. Depressingly, that's going to to continue for what feels like a looong time.

YABU. Maybe find another channel to watch the election coverage on or have a read about it instead. It doesn’t need to be on bbc1/itv all day.

If the timing was important then why wouldn’t you watch another channel just this once?

France and Portugal are big footballing nations in the Quarter Finals of a competition that lots of people are interested in so the BBC probably had bigger viewing figures for football than if it had broadcast the news. I assume that the match went into extra time/penalties hence the news being delayed.

What did you want them to say that they hadn’t already? And I stayed up all night to watch the election coverage on Thursday and was in bed at nine so it’s not like I’m a politically disengaged football fan. It’s not a breaking news story. The Labour majority was known from the early hours. The new cabinet was appointed in the day. Nothing new had happened by 10:00, but new events were unfolding in the live football game.

And out of curiosity, why do you think Gary Linekar is responsible for BBC scheduling? Should I forward my complaint to him that the Masterchef final was cancelled after Prince Phillip died?

It should just automatically go to bbc 2 at 10pm like other sporting stuff does.

As an aside I loathe football and the culture. All the shit pundits who didn't win anything major sneering at the team yet yayy they score and they're all heros. It is pathetic.

Surely the news is on the BBC News channel if you want to watch the news?

What exactly do you need to know?
Labour won. Starmer is PM.
Not much is happening yet.