Sweet FA?

So the Football Association have signed a deal which will mean England and FA Cup matches will move from BBC to ITV from August next year. A good deal for the FA perhaps, but I'm not so sure about the viewing public. Formula 1 motor racing has never been the same since it moved - ITV have turned it into a personality circus - and worse, a personality circus with commercial breaks! The Boat Race has become more about the rowers than the race since ITV took it over. And in Lineker and Hanson the BBC have two of the best and most honest analysts in the game. Even if, as has been suggested, they may move to ITV when the new deal comes into operation, will they be allowed to be as forthright and trenchant as they are at present? Money talks, I know, but deep down I feel that if the FA really have the best interests of the game - and that means all the clubs, and the fans - at heart, they have made a bad error of judgment.