BBC Sport

August 7, 2016

Tepid BBC report on Lebanese Olympic team’s bigoted agitprop

On the morning of August 7th an item billed “Lebanon and Israel teams in bus dispute” ap...

September 11, 2015

BBC responds on use of inappropriate flag picture – and posts another

h/t S Readers no doubt recall that the BBC’s coverage of the football match between Israel and...

June 1, 2015

A sports story which did not interest the BBC

Whilst the BBC News website’s Sport section (along with BBC television news and BBC World Serv...

May 24, 2015

BBC frames anti-Israel delegitimisation campaign as a sports story

An article about the FIFA presidential election which appeared in the Sport section of the BBC News ...

January 13, 2015

BBC Sport promotes context-free political statements

Visitors to the BBC News website’s Middle East page on January 12th found an article by BBC Sp...

May 20, 2014

BBC ignores Euroleague basketball championship – and its winner

You wouldn’t have known it from the BBC News website’s Europe page, but on the evening o...

December 30, 2013

BBC Sport amplifies Anelka excuses, downplays antisemitism

On December 29th the sports section of the BBC News website published a story titled “Nicolas ...

February 13, 2013

Selective BBC reporting on sports discrimination

As we know, the BBC is very concerned about racism in sport – so much so that it produced two arti...

December 31, 2012

Biggest BBC blunders & bungles of 2012

With 2012 having not been one of its finest years, the BBC is probably rather relieved to see the ba...