Well....from Qatar's World Cup coverage....ZDF (Channel Two) had a sports analyst (Sandro Wagner)....who uttered some comment about the crowd in Qatar...in 'bathrobes' (meaning Arab traditional robes).
Maybe he was sarcastic or laying down some 1-star humor, but this triggered a massive negative reaction.
Whole lot of chatter....the guy is a bigot. The network should fire the guy. ZDF needs to formerly apologize. So on and so on.
It's the type of comment you'd hear about the way that Bavarians dress....or the way that English people dress.
Basically, as crappy as the games have gone so far....it's probably one of the five highlights of the German series so far, and that's pretty sad to admit.
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Sheesh, if anything it made the guy likeable. I remember one time when the posh English equestrian commentator (then living in Australia and working for the Australian commentary team ) accidentally said "shit" on air during the Olympics. She was surprised to find that everyone liked her more afterwards. Before, she seemed like a stick up prat that no one could relate to, afterwards she was an honorary Aussie!
I think the main problem here....between ZDF and ARD covering the games....there's probably 15 different 'analysts', and they are giving you 7,000-percent chatter over what ought to be no more than 8 minutes of talk per day, by all of them combined.
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