The modern plagues of football include, in addition to the video referee, the live transmissions of some reporters on Sky. Sure, everyone can turn off the sound themselves to prevent ear bleeding. But sometimes at such a Sky Bundesliga conference you catch yourself thinking how crazy it actually is to have to be fooled by nuisances who want to be original and funny, but are pushy and silly instead. They rule everything up to the game of the century, including a 3-3 draw by Stuttgart against Dortmund. And they leave everything that is extraordinary stranded in the battle cry “madness”, which is used like a salesman with electric blankets, describing an early opening goal, a late equalizer, and a sudden downpour. Anyone who has nothing to say says with fake breathlessness: madness. And if you mean the defense chief, you don’t say defense chief, he says “pause supervision”. The transfer of terms from a different context is very fashionable in modern football reporting – and actually just a fad.
The great football reporter Ernst Huberty has died – media
