We have had to learn many new talents this year such as
seeking out hand gel dispensers when entering a shop, remembering to tuck a
face mask in your back pocket when leaving home and giving withering looks
using just your eyes when someone invades your personal space. Actually, scratch that last one. This is a talent I've always had....
Now, with the advent of our away games being live streamed
both visually and aurally, the new ability of synchronising these separate
feeds into a single, satisfying entity has become the latest covid-inspired
talent the average Poppies fan has had to learn.
It's all well and good the opposition club laying on the
live footage of our heroes on their patch, but we don't also need to hear their
poorly-informed, bumbling, utterly-biased commentary too. Not when we can hear poorly-informed,
bumbling, utterly-biased commentary from OUR commentators via Poppies radio.
It should be simplicity itself. Start the TV footage. Start the Poppies media commentary. Bob's your uncle. Alas, Bob's not your uncle. Not even close. Just a rather seedy mate of your Father who
enjoys rather too much bouncing the ten year-old version of you on his knee....
No, you need to spend the first five minutes of each half
trying to match the visuals with the audio commentary. Hearing the excited yelps of our commentary
duo over footage of a ball being cleaned under Connor's shirt, or seeing the
ball hit the back of the net while hearing about the lack of activity on the
pitch isn't much fun. Sometimes the
unedited outputs are as much as 30-seconds apart, but with careful pausing and
then playing of one of the feeds you can usually get them to correlate them
reasonably well. Sometimes even before
York are 2-0 up.
By the time you are completely happy with what you are
watching and hearing it is invariably half-time and you have to go through the
entire process again for the second half.
That said, at least this keeps you engaged in the process, not like the
boring, old-fashioned standing at the ground and just letting the game unfold
in front of you! Where's the fun in
that?
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