I think the Arseblogger said it better than I can;
"Call me old fashioned if you will, but this is a big load of shit that will add nothing to coverage of the game, beyond another layer of superficiality and snack-sized soundbites that will bring nothing to anyone’s enjoyment of football – beyond the people who exist in a world of memes and GIFs and online bantz.
I understand. We live in an age when social media rules, where 90 minutes of football is too much for some people so they have to experience the game through snippets and clips and all that, but surely there are lines we don’t need to cross. For me, the dressing room in particular should be sacrosanct. If clubs want to release some behind the scenes stuff, fine – but allowing the goons from Sky and TNT Sports in there before and after games seems wrong to me. It should be a space where the players can be free from the glare of the camera, and not worried about some wanker with a Steadicam.
I feel the same way about the pitch too. Cameramen running on to stick their lenses into a group of players who are trying to enjoy a moment doesn’t seem right either. You have ‘zoom’, you twats, use it. I think it should be fair game for any player to push any kind of equipment away with impunity if this is allowed happen. As for interviewing subs, it’s just pointless. They’ll either be tired or pissed off, and the chances of eliciting anything useful are close to zero. Clubs will ensure the media training is ramped up. Maybe once or twice a season a player annoyed at being taken off might react negatively, and then that will become a whole thing, a furore, a meme, a scandal they’ll go on and on about all week and that player will have to do an Instagram mea culpa, but they’ll never be able to shake it off permanently because this shit is forever.
TV companies don’t care though. It’ll just be great #content for them, while having real-life repercussions for the careers of young men who, I’m sorry to inform you, can occasionally act rashly in the heat of the moment. It’s garbage, lowest common denominator stuff, and it’s not even a new idea. It’s just lifted wholesale from American sports where it has been part of the culture and just widely accepted as the norm. It’s the opposite in football.
It’d be nice to think that those in charge of how most of us view football wanted to bring us the best possible coverage, with genuine insight and intelligent discussion of the important aspects of the game, but they think most of you are idiots (you’re not!) and have decided to serve you up a steaming hot moron pie with a side of dispshit ice-cream. Dickheads."