Football

January 19, 2024

Omissions in BBC News report on Israeli footballer in Turkey

On January 15th the BBC News website published a report on its ‘Europe’ and ‘Middle East’ pa...

November 24, 2023

Weekend long read

1) At the INSS, Ilan Zalayat and Yoel Guzansky analyse ‘The Gulf States and the Israel-Hamas Warâ€...

November 14, 2021

BBC Sport coy on ‘inappropriate flag’

On November 4th BBC Sport published a report headlined “Scotland fined for jeering Israel national...

December 10, 2020

Reviewing BBC reporting on UAE investment in Beitar Jerusalem FC

On December 8th the BBC Jerusalem bureau’s Tom Bateman produced a filmed report on a topic which h...

December 24, 2019

The BBC returns to an old obsession

The BBC continues to focus on the exception to the rule in Israeli football. ...

July 23, 2019

No BBC follow-up on a sports story it reported last year

BBC audiences see no reporting on the rejection of an appeal by the PFA president. ...

August 26, 2018

BBC Sport report amplifies bizarre Palestinian FA claims

Once again the BBC fails to give the full background to the cancellation of a football friendly....

July 4, 2018

BBC amends misleading Argentina match report after complaint

BBC Watch has secured amendments to a report on the cancelled Israel-Argentina friendly. ...

June 17, 2018

BBC News and BBC Sport ignore FIFA’s Jibril Rajoub disciplinary

While the BBC chose to promote a specific narrative on the cancellation of a football friendly, it n...

June 7, 2018

BBC WS reports what the BBC website didn’t on the Argentina football story

BBC World Service listeners hear the real reason for Argentina's cancellation of a football match wh...