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Article: Drama in Dnepropetrovsk made for TV
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- The Sunday Telegraph London
- Article date:
- October 11, 2009
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WHO would be a TV executive? The
P-45s are in the post. Thirteen minutes into the internet age
England were down to 10 men with the goalkeeper walking back down
the tunnel. Robert Green's lunge on Artem Milevskiy and the flares
that accompanied it would have sent remote controls into meltdown,
and all passed up for the underwhelming saving of pounds 100,000.
Hang your heads, ITV.
The images beamed through the ether screamed strictly don't
bother with the dancers, or the X-Factor for that matter. England's
footballers were immersed in a compelling audition and none but the
world wide webbers and the odd cinema goer saw it unfold. Madness.
It got worse for the absentees. Andrei Shevchenko ...