Apology for Biased Commentary

It seems like it weren’t just the fans or the players who were caught with whole excitement over the Australia-Italy world cup match; a famous Chinese commentator went a bit too far.

According to SMH -

Huang Jianxiang, who was commentating for an audience of millions on the state-run CCTV, was unable to control his enthusiasm when Fabio Grosso went down in a challenge and a last-minute penalty was awarded to the Italians.

Penalty! Penalty! Penalty! he screamed. Grosso’s done it, Grosso’s done it!

The great Italian left back! He succeeded in the glorious traditions of Italy! Facchetti, Cabrini and Maldini, their souls are infused in him at this moment!

Grosso represents the long history and traditions of Italian soccer, he’s not fighting alone at this moment! He’s not alone!

And this is just the tip of the ice-berg, his rant just kept on growing in size.

When Francesco Totti converted the penalty to win the match and Huang had a special mention for Australia’s Dutch coach Guus Hiddink, whose South Korea side knocked Italy out of the last World Cup.

Goooooal! Game over! Italy win! Beat the Australians! he shouted, his voice now breaking.

They do not fall in front of Hiddink again! Italy the great! Left back the great! Happy birthday to Maldini! Forza Italia!

The victory belongs to Italy, to Grosso, to Cannavaro, to Zambrotta, to Buffon, to Maldini, to everyone who loves Italian soccer!

Hiddink … lost all his courage faced with Italian history and traditions … He finally reaped fruits which he had sown! They should go home. They don’t need to go as far away as Australia as most of them are living in Europe. Farewell!

Needless to say, Huang Jianxiang was asked to issue an apology for his emotion-controlled behavior.

When he was asked to comment on his non-professional attitude, this is his explanation, “I’m more familiar with Italian players … and I don’t like Australians indeed. I was hoping they’d do badly here.”

I am surprised that this dude did not get sacked but chalo at least made an apology. If only these standards were followed in our beloved game of cricket.