ok, this may not sound like such an appealing idea............but it's all go on there at the moment, big announcement due on sunday, and the scummers are going mad for it
..but someone told me that there was going to be a 'popstars'-style program on channel 4, with people phoning in to vote which football player gets to play for a certain team, and that certain team is going to be stevenage.
As i say, no more concrete evidence than that, but the guy is not a conference fan and had no reason to make it up.
I don't think so - the inclusion of Channel 4 must mean something. There has been talk of them doing a fly-on-the-wall thing about a football club - I reckon that's it.
Though the suggestion of some sort of footy-based Big Brother type thing is the rumour I'd like to come true, there has to be a lot of comedy value in that if Satanage are involved!
The rivalry has gone slightly flat recently but if you were to merge with our darling EQUALS???? then we could really dislike Stevenshot or Aldernage. What a thought!
Apparently they're going to do an episode of the ever popular "Changing Rooms" presented by the lovely Carole Smiley Live from Broadhall Way. Paul Llywellyn Fairclough-Bowen will be decking the bar out in Purple and Black (in line with the old Tottenham away kit) lots of scatter cushions, brushed chrome and mdf. Handy Andy will be applying his large tool to the proceedings and Gary Mabbutt will be making a special guest appearance yet again! - lets hope they like the makeover.
Like all the others except that this one will flop as no one is the slightest bit interested in an annonymous non league team from a boring new town.
Hope it starts in early Feb (9th to be exact) as Cards record yet another 3-0 win at Boro.
Assuming it is true about a documentary and given that non league football is not exactly exciting, life or death stuff, I wouldn't be surprised if the TV company introduced some stage managed dramas etc to liven it up for instance big name signing (old pro), stand burns down, famous foreign team come to play a friendly, VAT man threatens closure.
Otherwise we will have; this week Boro are away at Northwich and a win will keep them in 12th place, star striker Darran Hay has a slight cold.....zzzzzzzzzzzzz
If it is a fly-on-the-wall documentary I'd be pissed off for the conference in general. C4 will not be interested at all in promoting the wonderful entity that is SBFC, no matter how excited their younger fans might get, but in ratings. That'll mean either contrived dramas or things taken out of context - neither of which are likely to enhance the public's view of the gloomy underworld which is conference footie.
Even worse, the whole thing might turn into a patronising, "look -aren't these little teams quaint" quasi-comedy show which wil make Mark Lawrenson look like the champion of non-league football.
Such an arrangement would probably be bigger news for the smaller club - depending on the exact deal. Plus Stevenage quite like to get stories out about themselves etc and, if it was something like them becoming a nursery club, I'm sure they'd want to control the way it came out as best as possible (to try to diffuse any anger amongst fans).
However, I'd be very surprised if the Sunday announcement is anything like that (...that probably means it will be).
My metaphorical money is on some sort of ongoing C4 deal - involving a fair bit of cash for Stevenage.
That's because if, as Stevenage chairman says, it's one of the biggest things in their history, I don't think a mere documentary would count.
Therefore, IMO, it would have to be either (or a combination of) a big money-raiser or a big profile-raiser ... perhaps a weekly real inside look.
Or will Boro host something like "Search for a Soccer Star" - similar to the Popstar things - a concept which I believe has been mooted?
...In summary, I've no idea what I'm talking about.
