Picture courtesy of Lochnagarth
This post was going to be about the recent Co-Operative World Netball Series tournament but after reading some rather ill-advised comments about netball we felt the need to post a response. A keen-eyed netball fan spotted the article in last Friday’s edition of the London Evening Standard, written by respected journalist and BBC TV presenter, John Inverdale. The online version can be found here, just after the piece about Wasps Rugby Club.
Credit where credit’s due; Mr Inverdale is at least writing about netball, and in an established newspaper. However, his comments have landed him in hot water with netball fans around the globe. Judging by his comments, he’s never actually played netball before and he’s all but branded it as being dull. Apparently, it just too easy to score in netball and this makes the game ‘repetitious and unfulfilling’. These comments followed an afternoon spent watching the top 6 teams in the world play a drastically modified version of the game at the World Netball Series in Manchester.
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Australia v England Netball Test - Adelaide, October 2008
Why isn’t there more netball on TV in the UK? If netball was a male dominated sport, it would be on prime time TV on the major channels.It’s great that you can now catch Superleague games on Sky but what about those of us who don’t have Sky?
Compare this with the situation in NZ. I lived there in 2006 and there was live coverage of games from their premier domestic competition, (the National Bank Cup now replaced by the ANZ Championships), on prime time TV every Saturday and Sunday throughout the whole competition. Women make up 51% of the population in the UK – why not try and engage our attention? To have more netball on TV would be encouraging to netball players at all levels and especially to young girls who tend to drop out of sport sooner than their male counterparts.
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Netball tournament, Rotorua, New Zealand
Hello and welcome to Netball Match.
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