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Like many World Cup viewers, I’m addicted to the laugh-a-minute rollick that is Santo, Sam and Ed’s Cup Fever. But could this TV show be the answer to converting this AFL, league and rugby nation into fully-fledged football fans?
It’s a brilliant TV show. You get three genuinely funny, football tragics, all with different opinions and different allegiances (though united by their love for the Socceroos, of course). Plant them in the same room, in front of a camera and a live audience, and let the fun begin!
It’s pure entertainment.
Segments like ‘Take on my nuts’, ‘Not even close’ and my personal favourite ‘The Rivaldo Award’, are simply putting on television what we all said and thought while watching the World Cup.
Guests provide a welcome change of pace, exposing closet soccer fans to the rest of Australia, as well as educating viewers on some little known facts. For instance, who knew Stephen Conroy plays in a parliamentary football team? Who knew there even was a parliamentary football team!
It’s got just enough Australian larrikinism, not dissimilar to the AFL and NRL Footy Shows. But with far less sleaziness, and a lot more comedy, it’s a combination fans of all sports would surely appreciate.
Even though the show was moved from 8.30pm to the later time slot of 10pm, it’s still a hit amongst audiences.
If SBS don’t see the potential of this winning formula, these audiences will be left bitterly disappointed and ultimately deprived of what could be something truly wonderful.
This show has the potential even after the World Cup to continue as a weekly show looking back at the week’s football matches from around the world.
Just think about it – The A-League, Bundesliga, J-League, English Premier League, Serie A and more, all scrutinized by three hilarious guys who can bring football back to life, and celebrate the game, with more colour, passion and flair, than Les Murray and his team at The World Game would ever be able to recreate.
Available on a free-to-air channel, at an appropriate hour, to a national audience, looking at the divine and the disastrous in world football, it’s so exciting just to think what a show like this could do for Australian football.
SBS could have a winner on their hands. Not just for them, not just for us, but for the overall interest, growth and development of football in Australia.
Santo, Sam and Ed’s Cup Fever. What a lovely way to burn.
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