disgustingly shoddy treatment

Watching Tottenham play Getafe in the EURO cup at the moment; the commentary team have just suggested that news has leaked during the halftime interval that Martin Jol, the Spurs manager, has been sacked. Apparently the new managerial team is Juande Ramos and Gus Poyet. Dunno if it's true, but they just showed the Tottenham chairman Daniel Levy sitting in the stand, his smug, slap-headed mug smirking at the cameras. I wanted to punch the televison.

Oh, it's true - watching football does make you violent.