A new season dawns. New kits. New scarfs. New players trying their best for their new teams. Old supporters trying out new grumbles.
Thankfully over at Radio Northampton they don't go in for all this "new" malarkey.
No, at this publicly funded organ of the British Broadcasting Corporation they like to stick to the old ways. Consequently this Saturday the live radio coverage comes from Sixfields, and the online coverage comes from Non Park. That's right, the radio car is making the extremely familiar gargantuan 17 mile trip back up the A45 to cover everyone's favourite collection of creatures forsaken by Man and God.
Never mind that the Poppies are making a 200+ mile away trip to Gateshead, and it might be nice for the local broadcaster to cover a game the vast majority of supports can't get to. Never mind that pretty much everyone who has even the slightest interest in The Direones will be at their game. Never mind any pretence at having a public service remit.
It's not even as if Radio Northampton can trot out the old cliche that the ground the Poppies are visiting doesn't have the facilities to allow them to broadcast. We're pretty sure the Gateshead International Athletics Stadium has some rudimentary broadcasting facilities....even though they probably pale alongside those on offer in Irthlingborough.
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