# Irritating FA Cup Final coverage **URL:** \ **Category:** The Game Room\ **Created:** [May 17, 2008, 11:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/irritating-fa-cup-final-coverage/449650 "2008-05-17T11:57:57Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![The\_Stafford\_Cripps](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/the_stafford_cripps/32/7167_2.png) [@The\_Stafford\_Cripps](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Stafford_Cripps)\ **Post date:** [May 17, 2008, 11:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/irritating-fa-cup-final-coverage/449650/1 "2008-05-17T11:57:57Z")
Motson’s just said in his usual excessively intrigued tone that Portsmouth have just finished 8th in the Premiership, “their highest ever finish”. While technically correct, this completely obscures the fact that they have twice been league champions within living memory. This adulation for all things Premiership really goes too far sometimes, especially on a day when it is a completely different competition being played for, and 50% of the participants do not even play in it. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Stafford\_Cripps](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/the_stafford_cripps/32/7167_2.png) [@The\_Stafford\_Cripps](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Stafford_Cripps)\ **Post date:** [May 17, 2008, 12:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/irritating-fa-cup-final-coverage/449650/2 "2008-05-17T12:10:08Z")
Sorry, this should perhaps have gone in the Games Room. ---
**Author:** ![DSYoungEsq](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/c6cbf5/32.png) [@DSYoungEsq](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DSYoungEsq)\ **Post date:** [May 17, 2008, 11:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/irritating-fa-cup-final-coverage/449650/3 "2008-05-17T23:11:12Z")
Reported. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Dead\_Cat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/9fc29f/32.png) [@Dead\_Cat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dead_Cat)\ **Post date:** [May 19, 2008, 12:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/irritating-fa-cup-final-coverage/449650/4 "2008-05-19T12:47:42Z")
I agree - it’s really just a useful tool for statisticians to come up with ever more meaningless soundbites, such as this one. I think Motson has had his day as a commentator, really - his style is quite annoying, though at least he’s not as bad as Tony Gubba. ---
**Author:** ![Busy\_Scissors](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/d78d45/32.png) [@Busy\_Scissors](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Busy_Scissors)\ **Post date:** [May 19, 2008, 1:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/irritating-fa-cup-final-coverage/449650/5 "2008-05-19T13:20:08Z")
Portsmouth champions in living memory? That’s some memory 🙂 Do you remember Newcastle winning the league? Agree that the premiership year zero is annoying bullshit. Davie Moyes says this a lot, which I don’t care for - ‘our highest ever premiership points tally (65) this year’. I get the point, Davie, we were shite for a number of years before you turned up. But go back a bit further and we’ve had great teams that would piss all over your current first eleven, so a bit of perspective is in order. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Stafford\_Cripps](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/the_stafford_cripps/32/7167_2.png) [@The\_Stafford\_Cripps](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Stafford_Cripps)\ **Post date:** [May 19, 2008, 7:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/irritating-fa-cup-final-coverage/449650/6 "2008-05-19T19:11:51Z")
[QUOTE=The Cocky Watchman] Portsmouth champions in living memory? That’s some memory 🙂 Do you remember Newcastle winning the league? [/QUOTE] No, but I count living memory as including things that happened only 60 years ago, even if I wasn’t born then myself 😃