QPR have announced that for their match against Newcastle next week they’ll be unveiling a new 3D match programme. Â They’ve stated that this will allow them to enter ‘a new dimension’ of football coverage. Right. Apparently this has been done before in England but never by a Premier League team so this is big news, and as you can see from the picture above even QPR stars Shaun Wright Philips, Nedum Onouha and Ryan Nelsen are amazed/baffled by it. Millwall are the most notable club to have ‘pioneered’ this idea before which sort of gives you some idea how terrible an idea it actually is.
I mean how is a 3D programme going to be useful in any way. It’s kind of like when they introduced 3D football on the TV – nobody bothers watching it in 3D because it’s useless. Like when they advertise it in pubs – ‘watch the big match in 3D’ – who the hell is gonna go down to the pub and sit there with 3D glasses on looking like a twat, especially when the fact that it’s in 3D doesn’t even do anything? It’s not like when Djibril Cisse hits the ball into row Z it comes flying out of the TV at you in 3D, nothing as cool as that ever happens. All that happens is the players look a bit closer and more realistic. And don’t even get me started on most of the movies that come out in 3D.
But what can a football programme offer in 3D? The programme itself is going to be 84 pages long and 75% of that is going to be in 3D. There’s also a special Q & A section with Bobby Zamora. Wow, this is almost making me want to buy a ticket and head on down to the game – not only does QPR V West Ham have classic written all over it, but I’ll also get to pick up one of these awesome programmes. But seriously other than the Q & A with Bobby Zamora – which admittedly sounds tasty – what is the programme going to offer me that a regular programme won’t? Will the Q & A with Bobby Zamora even be in 3D? What else could possibly be in 3D that would be cool in a football programme? I’m seriously perplexed at the options I can’t even think of anything that could work in 3D in there, can you?
If anyone’s going to the game and wants to pick us up a programme email us at [email protected], I would really be interested in seeing one. Or if you’ve got any clue as to what 75% of the programme is going to consist of let us know. In the meantime enjoy these pictures of Jamie Mackie and Park Ji Sung enjoying (?) the 3D programme: