Out-dated camera work at Euro 2020...?

[gillianwalmsley]

AIBU to think this: I enjoy football, especially these big international tournaments and the first couple of weeks are great - three matches each day & I usually try to catch a couple of them.

But I've noticed, if there is a break in play, an injury or something, the camera people always seem to pick-out young and attractive female fans and zoom in close....

Isn't this a bit 1970s/Page 3/Benny Hill and a bit out-of-date, in 2021?

I'm not blaming the BBC or ITV by-the-way, I believe they take a UEFA feed so it is not their fault - or am I just getting fed-up that I can remember Euro 1996, whilst most of these wee lassies were probably not even born then!?

P.S. Well done Scotland tonight, who showed great spirit and skill against England, to earn a point.

Yes, I have already commented about this to my husband. Yet if they focus on a man, it's always an overweight, middle-aged one with his top off.

The only match I've watched in detail was the England Scottish match.

The focusing on fans I saw was a random selection of ages, sexes and attractiveness or otherwise.

I thought it was a fairly lacklustre game. Scotland are absolutely useless at driving the ball up the field. On the other hand England really should be beating Scotland. Scotland is very much a third rater on the international scene.

From the point of view of those living and working in Central London it's probably the best result that could have been hoped for.

Sorry, watched both the Netherlands matches. The fan focuses were the same there- random selection of ages, sex and attractiveness.

To be fair, it hasn't been every match. I think it is dependent on the camera team that day.

Slightly OTT, but why is it being called Euro 2020??

Cos it was supposed to be last year. My son solemnly told me last night as I tried and failed to get the bloody thing on the tv live.

(Dh was out. I don't watch tv anymore!)

I guessed that but it doesn't make sense to me not to call it 2021!

@WarriorN

Cos it was supposed to be last year. My son solemnly told me last night as I tried and failed to get the bloody thing on the tv live.

(Dh was out. I don't watch tv anymore!)

OT, but we couldn’t get it live either - so frustrating. Smart TV app doesn’t do live stream (too old), we don’t have terrestrial TV and the TV refused to accept cast from my phone.

@NutellaEllaElla

I guessed that but it doesn't make sense to me not to call it 2021!

Not much about football makes sense tbh 🤷🏻‍♀️

ITV iPlayer was showing it live but you had to sign in and it wasn't letting the verification emails go through. They've only come through today. He actually wasn't that bothered and watched trolls...

I don't really watch football but my daughter was watching another match and the BBC had three presenters. The robot dancer footballer was in casual wear with a blazer. The man behind him was in a tracksuit then the woman behind was in high heels, leggings, a vest top and her bra showing! It immediately outraged me it's so sexist.
Also out of interest who does wear high heels and leggings?

I assume calling it Euro2020 is because they’d already printed up all the merchandise for it and didn’t want to have to spend money reprinting it all!

My DH watches loads of sport and this happens in tennis as well.

YANBU to notice this. Though for some countries it does not mean showing older or overweight men, which perhaps says something about the countries concerned.

There is so much wrong in television. The news the other day were reporting how woefully low the conviction rates for rape are in UK. What was the camera footage of? Stock video images of women on nights out in short skirts. Totally gratuitous and unnecessary. And what exactly was the implication? That women dressing like that get raped? It makes my blood boil.

the woman behind was in high heels, leggings, a vest top and her bra showing! It immediately outraged me it's so sexist.

I doubt that anyone told the presenters what to wear, so that was her choice.

Totally agree with you OP.
Very tedious in 2021.

It's played every 4 years. Last years was deleted but it's still the 2020 fixtures.

The presenters would have chosen what to wear surely

Our local newspaper had a "story" on hot weather in summer shock. The picture was of a lone woman sunbathing in a public park in a bikini. Ffs.

@risefromyourgrave

I assume calling it Euro2020 is because they’d already printed up all the merchandise for it and didn’t want to have to spend money reprinting it all!

Also because the next one will be in 2024, and not 2025, to keep to the four year schedule.

This sounds more like looking out for something to be outraged about. Certainly wasn't the case in the matches I've watched. One of the Netherlands matches had quite a lot of shots of children.

Our local newspaper had a "story" on hot weather in summer shock. The picture was of a lone woman sunbathing in a public park in a bikini. Ffs.

"Hotter than benidorm" type non stories are usually an excuse for the probably male reporter or photographer to find some young, fit good looking girls wearing not many clothes on either brighton beach or in hyde park.

It will called 2020 as all the printing of advertising and stuff will have been completed before COVID, impossible to change it. The Olympics will still be 2020 too.

@FemaleAndLearning

I don't really watch football but my daughter was watching another match and the BBC had three presenters. The robot dancer footballer was in casual wear with a blazer. The man behind him was in a tracksuit then the woman behind was in high heels, leggings, a vest top and her bra showing! It immediately outraged me it's so sexist. Also out of interest who does wear high heels and leggings?

What were you "outraged" about? Woman wears something you don't approve of?

Come on

It's obvious she is concerned about the message it sends to her daughters (and any sons too) - that it is normalised for women to show a lot more flesh than men and uncomfortable shoes