In 1990, England of course lost to zee Germans in the semi-finals of the World Cup, may have been a shootout, I forget but there were riots in England when that happened when I guess there was still plenty of hooliganism and the BBC reported it, I can remember listening to it thinking “Oh Wow.” I don’t know where else I would have found out about it though I’m sure newspapers actually covered it.
The BBC back then, not now of course but back then had a reputation for being a fairly unbiased neutral objective reporting organization. They were probably all of that except for perhaps some of their own affairs, Northern Ireland and the like.
Nowadays, I think they’ve recently gotten better but still: http://biasedbbc.org/
That said, they remain a bit of a favorite nonetheless, football/soccer coverage is still good.
I hope England can be saved from these immigration woes they seem to have.
Sometimes they call the "Beeb" something like Auntie, I guess that is it, affectionate term. I wasn't sure if it was Auntie or Granma.
Maybe they haven't gotten better recently.