BBC Sport.

The BBC news channel now features a dedicated sports centre. Unfortunately it is a massive waste of money. An entire studio devoted to a 5 minute (at most) sports bulletin is certainly unnecessary. The same level of information could be achieved by the usual newsreader continuing to read off the autocue.

Not only is all of this vastly over-the-top, it is also mostly useless. The majority of the time is devoted to football and even then it is usually just one or two stories from top flight football. Pretty useless if you support one of the many teams outside of the Premier League. Most of the other sports stories are generally more middle class sports, such as tennis or rugby union, or just simply one of the few sporting events that the BBC actually has the rights to any more. Cricket is only ever covered if there in an international match, despite excellent, competitive games going on between counties throughout the summer. Even when cricket is mentioned it is only fleetingly. Often the batting side's score is announce and how many wickets down they are (98 for 2, for example), but this isn't enough. In limited overs cricket you really need to know how many overs have been bowled. If a team is 98 for 2 after 19 overs of a Twenty20 match then that isn't a particularly good score, even if they have only lost two wickets. However if a team is 98 for 2 after 15 overs of a Twenty20 match then you'd expect them to get a good score.

Outside of the top level of the top sports there is barely anything reported, which really makes you wonder what all of these people at the BBC's sports centre are doing. Most of the presenters only know anything about one sport. Often names are pronounced incorrectly or they simply don't know what they are talking about.

I'm all for the BBC having a dedicated sports centre, but use it properly. A big studio for 5 minutes of football news just doesn't seem worth it to me.