Probably the US equivalent to David Beckham, in terms of sporting personality magnitude. A huge loss to the sport.
I'm genuinely sure he is. I suspect a better analogy might be Freddie Flintoff, as cricket is no more on the US public's radar, than basketball is here ?
It's the last thing they needed after what happened a few months ago when Breakfast accidentally ran a 2016 clip of Boris Johnson laying a wreath on Remembrance Day and portraying that as occurring in 2019
Maybe it'll help those who were screaming 'bias' over the Johnson error realise that sometimes mistakes happen without their being a conspiracy behind them. (Although it probably won't.)
It's the last thing they needed after what happened a few months ago when Breakfast accidentally ran a 2016 clip of Boris Johnson laying a wreath on Remembrance Day and portraying that as occurring in 2019
Maybe it'll help those who were screaming 'bias' over the Johnson error realise that sometimes mistakes happen without their being a conspiracy behind them. (
Although it probably won't
.)
Have you seen the thread underneath that video tweet on the last page?
They will get a lot of criticism over that, especially as Reeta helpfully pointed it out to those who hadn’t noticed, by apologising at the end.
I don't want to sound disrespectful, but lead story on last night's 10pm news?
I'd never heard of him, was he a household name in the UK. Perhaps I lead a sheltered life?
What did ITV lead with last night out of interest?
It seemed to lead on all the news channels last night - even a ‘harder news’ channel like Al Jazeera led with it for several hours.
He was a huge name in the world of sports and a pop culture icon in America and it was a very tragic death so I’m not surprised it led the news.
If I were to think of a UK equivalent in terms of age/ public recognition it’d be somebody like Jonny Wilkinson or Freddie Flintoff
Probably the US equivalent to David Beckham, in terms of sporting personality magnitude. A huge loss to the sport.
I'm genuinely sure he is. I suspect a better analogy might be Freddie Flintoff, as cricket is no more on the US public's radar, than basketball is here ?
Basketball is significantly more popular in the UK than cricket is in the US and in some ways even the UK. In terms of participation basketball is the 2nd biggest team sport in the country, ahead of both cricket and rugby, and is played by over 1,000,000 people in the UK. Every single person involved in basketball in this country will have heard of Kobe.
Firstly, I think that it is only right that I say RIP to all the people who lost their lives last night.
I am intrigued about these figures as according to Basketball England there are 700 basketball clubs in the UK where as there are according to the Yorkshire Cricket Board over 700 cricket clubs in Yorkshire alone let alone the other 17 County Boards and Minor Counties. World Rugby states that Rugby Union has some 1.1m male players in England and according to Statista a further 63000 people play Rugby League in England.
For transparency I watch cricket and live in Yorkshire.
