For clogging up our Saturday morning TV with food rather than football, we have it in for you James Martin.
Saturday mornings should be about a few vital elements. Actually, scratch that, it should be about one element and one element alone; football.
While Sky Sports News is the go-to place for any football addict, it is Soccer AM that truly signals the beginning of the football weekend. While some may criticise it for not being as good as its heyday, it still has far more good than bad.
Nowhere else will you get all the highlights of League 2’s best bits while regular features like Third Eye, Showboat and the fans in the car park at the end are all still great to watch. If they have at least one really good guest, which they usually do, then it is as good a way as any to pass a Saturday morning while reading the papers and filling in your football coupon. You can always mute the more annoying bits.
But some genius in the BBC decided that instead of Saturday mornings being all about the beautiful game, it should instead be about the right way to poach an egg and serving melon to a judge from Strictly Come Dancing.
They concocted the abomination that is Saturday Kitchen almost a decade ago and it is still with us, blighting Saturday mornings for footie fans everywhere. Starting under the helm of Anthony Worral-Thompson, it is now under the control of James Martin, and that’s why he gets the nod from us this week.
It’s not so much that we dislike the man himself, it is more the fact that his programme interrupts our blissful Saturday morning footie watching. The show itself, if you have ever been forced to watch it, mixes up bits of other cooking shows, and some cooking by Martin himself, with chef guests and ‘celebrities’.
There is always a rather awkward section where they all eat together and the format of feeding and interviewing people at the same time is one that doesn’t work for us.
As we said, we’re sure James is a lovely fella to meet for a pint or two. We just wish his show would move to another time so we don’t accidentally learn some cooking skills. Instead, we would much rather watch the football and order off the lovely folks at Just-Eat.ie.
Take the hassle out of being the chef tonight – remember – Don’t Cook, JUST EAT
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