Home Grown
The News Review:
- Home Grown
- Interview: Julian Bellamy
- US-style terror alerts for UK
- Livid Gold calls for clear-out at Birmingham
- Portsmouth spoil McClaren’s CV
- FA set for more Curbishley talks – report
- You say, We say – Yorkshire
Home Grown
BlueGoldNews.com – BlueGoldNews.com (subscription) – Apr 17, 2006
“It’s not just a feeling of accomplishment, but of pride too,” said Tim as he talked about the recognition that comes when a walk-on gets some acknowledgment or makes a contribution. “Coming in as a walk-on, you know you have to work hard to prove yourself, so when you finally get that chance to play you want to take advantage of it. You never want to get complacent. ”
Taking things for granted won’t be a problem for Lindsey, who worked his way from scout team tight end to the starting long snapper in 2005.
Interview: Julian Bellamy
Guardian Unlimited – Apr 17, 2006
“But to be honest there are more similarities than differences. In the end, we’re all sitting around with creative people, scratching our heads and looking for an idea. “Yet it is equally clear that he is relishing the increased freedom BBC3′s huge £93m-a-year budget, all of it to be invested in home-grown commissions, will bring: “E4 and BBC3 are different in many ways. It’s great to be in a place that is absolutely dedicated to developing and nurturing new talent, that has new comedy at the core of what it does. “Bellamy is not one to hang around. While full of praise for Murphy and insistent that his mantra will be “evolution not revolution”, he goes on to list “two or three things” that actually sound like a manifesto for some big changes. As you would perhaps expect from one of those behind Big Brother, a show that tapped into and reflected the attitudes of a generation, he wants everything the channel does to be “even more single-minded about appealing to our target audience” of 25-to-34 year-olds… In a move that could either be viewed as a cynical attempt to ghettoise it or a laudable effort to champion it, BBC3′s commitment to current affairs will be concentrated into four or five week-long seasons, each focusing on a different theme. The first, this summer, will feature a series of documentaries on body image. Similarly in music and arts, Dreamscape and two or three part series will make way for a concentration on more broad appeal, one-off music events, from the bold (Good Friday’s Manchester Passion) to the rather less bold (blanket coverage of Reading and Leeds festivals). In an ever more competitive environment the aim, as ever, will be to “punch through” with “more ruthless marketing” and more event programming. “The art of running these things is that it’s a kind of a brew, to which you’re constantly adding and taking away,” says Bellamy, refusing to countenance canning the 10pm EastEnders repeat and insisting that spin-offs from BBC1 will still play a part “where appropriate”. But he acknowledges that he will have to be brave in axeing popular shows to make way for new ones and waving off successful programmes to BBC1 or BBC2. “It’s the thing you agonise over and torture yourself about.
US-style terror alerts for UK
Guardian Unlimited – Apr 17, 2006
It would also place them under greater scrutiny. Recommending a downgrade in the threat level early last June, Jtac said many of its concerns focused on a “wide range and large numbers of extremist networks and individuals in the UK”. It did not foresee “home grown” bombers, let alone suicide bombers who attacked London tube trains and a bus on July 7. Security sources have said they are concerned about the “integrity” of the threat assessment system, and the need to avoid the temptation to keep it artificially high. They also say that the system in the US, where threat alerts are regularly announced, could lead to a “crying wolf” syndrome in the UK. Other Whitehall officials are concerned about how to keep the public alert while avoiding alarm or panic. Critics of the high-profile American terror threat system, first introduced in 2002, say it is useless at best, and, at worst, subject to being manipulated for political ends.
Livid Gold calls for clear-out at Birmingham
Telegraph.co.uk – Apr 17, 2006
It is happening at Middlesbrough as well. An encouraging clutch of kids lie promisingly in wait. Yes, Villa need reinforcements, and plenty of them in order to move forward, but the potential of Cahill, Craig Gardner and Gabriel Agbonlahor, all English and home-grown, point to a future based on hunger and zest. That’s what seemed to annoy Gold so much at Villa Park: his side had just been beaten by players on a relative pittance who cost absolutely nothing. His lot, by comparison, looked tired and spent. In his eyes at least, the only lions wearing blue were the couple outside perched on top of two plinths.
Portsmouth spoil McClaren’s CV
Telegraph.co.uk – Apr 17, 2006
Will Steve McClaren be granted promotion even before Harry Redknapp has once more defied relegation? It must be said, on Saturday’s evidence, that Portsmouth’s credentials for continuing Premiership status are at least as convincing as McClaren’s for succeeding Sven-Goran Eriksson. McClaren is an outstanding coach with 19 home-grown players in his squad, but managing England is not about coaching. Yet there are serious questions to be asked on both fronts. If Redknapp is a genius in April, what was he doing between August and December – or at Southampton last season? And if McClaren is to be the next manager for England, why has a squad with so much talent remained so uncomfortably at the wrong end of the table?You could argue that Redknapp commendably believes in attacking football, but that virtue is nullified by a defensive record better only than Sunderland’s.
FA set for more Curbishley talks – report
Ireland Online – Apr 17, 2006
Middlesbrough boss Steve McClaren is the favourite to take over after the World Cup with former Celtic chief Martin O’Neill also in the running as well as Bolton manager Sam Allardyce. Curbishley’s chances seemed to have slipped over the last week with Charlton bowing out of the FA Cup in a replay against McClaren’s Middlesbrough, before the Addicks boss revealed he had had no further contact with the FA since an initial informal meeting with the body’s chief executive Brian Barwick. He said on Friday: