Why is so much football being foisted on TV licence payers? - Yorkshire Post Letters

I have studied the TV schedules for the week in The Yorkshire Post magazine to find that there are 28 scheduled programmes covering the World Cup football, something we always thought was a winter game.

This obsession with the so-called ‘beautiful game’ has become quite outrageous to the extent that regular programmes such as Coronation Street and Emmerdale do not feature at all across these six days.

In this unjustified displacement of regular programmes I find that BBC 1 & ITV 1 are showing exactly the same matches on 11 occasions! What possible reason can there be for this when the two channels could agree not to duplicate their coverage?

Not everybody is a football fanatic, although it does seem to be the new religion manifested by people jumping up and down or charging around with arms out and mouths open or skidding along the ground on their knees.

This treatment of the viewer and licence payer needs to be curbed to offer a more sane and balanced output of programmes.