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Des blasts coverage.


Byline: ASSAULT: Lynam

DES Lynam has led a new assault on BBC BBC
 in full British Broadcasting Corp.

Publicly financed broadcasting system in Britain. A private company at its founding in 1922, it was replaced by a public corporation under royal charter in 1927.
 and ITV (1) See interactive TV.

(2) (iTV) The code name for Apple's video media hub (see Apple TV).
 commentators - by blasting them for being obsessed with useless statistics and having hysterics hysterics /hys·ter·ics/ (his-ter´iks) popular term for an uncontrollable emotional outburst.  after a goal.

The veteran of World Cups on radio and television between 1970 and 2002 said some commentators go so high pitched with excitement that "any higher, only dogs would hear them".

Now presenter of Channel 4's Countdown, Lynam also singled out ITV's Jon Champion as the king of the mindless fact and figure.

He added: "In this World Cup one could be forgiven for gaining the impression that the boys are in the business of 'out-statting' each other."

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Publication:The Mirror (London, England)
Date:Jun 20, 2006
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