I was going to post this last week, but the sheer, raw pain of it all prevented me from doing so. The thing is - and every Liverpool fan out there will agree - this season has been a distaster. A complete disaster. No amount of “Well, we’re still in the Europa League and the race for fourth” (I mean..fourth? Really?) can soften the fact that we’ve taken a step backwards, and a big one.
Small wonder, then, that Sky chose February’s clash of the titans between Arsenal and Manchester United as their pioneering 3D broadcast. That’s right, now you could see Fabregas, Berbatov, Arshavin and Nani weave their magic across the pitch and into your own home. Of course, quite what it would feel like having Wayne Rooney hare towards you as you take a sip of your tea is worth considering. It gives a whole new meaning to the idea of hot pants.
Spillages aside, the point is that for this particular piece of event marketing they chose two of our biggest rivals to launch the revolution, and who could blame Mr. Murdoch in his floating cloud fortress? After watching Liverpool slip to their ninth league defeat of the season with a dismal display at Wigan (Ninth! Wigan!) last week (hence why I couldn’t bring myself to post this then) I’m positively thrilled that we weren’t chosen. We would have bored the audience so much that nobody in their right minds would have wanted to watch 3D sport ever again.
Yet this is the future. On a recent promotional tour, I got chatting to one of those chaps who works for Sky, and he said that even watching golf was amazing in 3D. Maybe watching us lose our tenth game of the season would still be worth watching. Or then again, maybe not. I’d definitely prefer to catch fellow blogger Liam’s new Vlogs in 3D, even if it did mean technically being in the same room as Perez Hilton.