Always a showman and always writing his own scripts, Frankie Dettori won his fourth 2000 guineas in his latest classic film appearance. Photo: PA/Nigel French
The Coronation dominated weekend television, with an average of 18.8 million views and a peak of 20.4 million. But in the meantime, in the other part of the city… sports broadcasts on TV did not let up.
Over the weekend across the country, the older generation spoke about their experience of watching the coronation in 1953, gathered around the neighbors' tiny TV, only a few decades away from seeing your first banana. For those who turn on Sky Sports on their Saturday lunch break, it's the same borderline feeling as '53, the start of something new, unfamiliar and a bit scary: Anton Ferdinand's reign as pundit on Sky Sports Soccer. Saturday.
Since Merce and the others must have been there or somewhere nearby in the VVIP area of Westminster Abbey, Sky had to play for the reservists: Darren Ambrose, Stephen Kelly and Anton, who… talks… very… very… very… slowly, which means that his descriptions of some of the goals were ahead of the game, and you could watch them in Match of the Day before Anton even got to the denouement.
Leading this apparently unroyal stream of experts is presenter Tom White, one of several who will attempt the impossible and replace King Jeff Stelling once the great man's abdication is finally confirmed at the end of the season. Like the task before His Majesty King Charles, it's a hell of a challenge. Stelling was back on the throne of the Sunday show and it must be said that the difference in fluency and presence was clear.
difficult to follow. Photo: Sky Sports
Compared to the groaning smorgasbord that fans face today, television sports coverage in 1953 was, to put it mildly, limited. In that year 2,000 guineas were won, as in this year, by a jockey from abroad; Australian Edgar Britt was the first to return home to Nearula in the year that Queen Elizabeth took over the reins. It was considered only an average guinea; it's hard to be sure this year given the movement. Britt, later a horse racing commentator and journalist, lived to be 103 years old and was awarded the Medal of the Order of Australia by Queen Elizabeth.
Frankie Dettori, just a 52-year-old, of course won this year and, like Stelling and the aforementioned late queen, will leave huge boots, metaphorically if not literally, in the case of the diminutive Italian rider. He was the star of Saturday's ITV report and was there again on Sunday in a gorgeous bottle green suit, speaking with the experts before riding 1,000 guineas, which proved to be more than he and Lezou.
We can assume that in the coming we will see quite a lot of Dettori on ITV over the years and he will be a welcome addition: charismatic, sparkling, eccentric.
Graeme Souness turned 70 on Saturday and it reminded him not only of his dignified and sincere announcement of his departure from Sky last weekend, but also of his chaotic and dramatic debut for the Rangers as a player-coach against the Hibs in 1986 football television and one of the greatest redemptions in the history of the game. Sui completely loses his mind, committing an incredibly cruel foul, which provoked a massive fight and delirium among the Hibs fans. Sunday football on TV wouldn't be the same without him, his passion, his poetic, lyrical mutterings of ultra-violence.
Speaking of Scotland, the League has been settled as Hearts hosted champions Celtic, also shown on Sky, at least some consolation for Republicans after the missed weekend.< /p>
Elsewhere, the indestructible Sir Andy Murray competed in the final of the Provence Challenger tournament, as well as broadcast all sorts of county cricket, Joe Root's long-awaited debut in the Indian Premier League, the Miami Grand Prix. The UK may or may not be the best place to live in 2023 compared to 1953, but if you like a weekend filled with sports on TV, really, we've never had it this good.
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