Igovernor wrote:WestCoastBlue wrote:beIN Sports, a Qatari sports broadcaster, showed exactly identical footage to what the BBC played. So no the BBC did not engage in political censorship when the players took the knee.
https://streamable.com/vb0o0d
Well I have just watched the begining again and I got to tell you two things, one on the clip you just linked to, i heard NO booing, but on what I have recorded, there was a lot of booing, it is doctored on bein. Secondly the first shot was from a distance then straight to the two england players, it did jump, that is why i said earlier thought it was a glitch, it was nothing like a normal kneel before a match, did you not notice that you did not see the players actually kneel down as normally they show, when it pans back the players are already up!
I think you will find now that there is no video out there that I can find that shows the initial kneeling and the boos.
Rewatch the clip, there is no cut. Tyrone Mings has his arm outstretched and is just about to get up when the camera cuts to the wide angle, at this point everyone is standing up. However, if you look at Mings on the far left of the screen he's still getting up from kneeling with his arm still held out.
There's also definitely boos and jeers in the video I've linked, I'm not sure why you don't think there is. Also, you can hear there's no cut in the audio.
Finally, in this clip it starts too late to see the players kneel down but the BBC footage definitely showed this happening and it was footage from the same suspended camera the beIN footage shows.
This is a link to the BBC footage, compare it with the beIN footage and you'll see it's identical. It also shows the players kneel down. Once again there's also no cut in the audio.
https://streamable.com/ob5pfmAs for not being normal, this is a completely different scenario to the PL games. This is footage being broadcast across all of Europe and the World. There will be a different team of people working on this compared to the BT and Sky coverage of the PL. For whatever reason the producers and film crew decided that they'd show closeups of the players instead of just a wide angle, I'm not sure what you think is suspicious about that or what they're trying to coverup?