Bleep tests were once confined to the purgatory of pre-season training where players had to sprint until they vomited.
But when Sky Sports cameras are granted “enhanced” access at Wycombe Wanderers' home game with Portsmouth, with dressing room footage, in-game interviews and on-pitch audio, viewers will be able to eavesdrop on matchday dialogue like never before. Although the experiment will break new ground in English football, it is nothing new in America, where media locker-room access at sporting fixtures is a rite of passage.
But it is fraught with risk for live broadcasters, not least because of the industrial language which forms the soundtrack on football's shop floor. None of it is likely to be as abrupt or unrefined as former Leyton Orient manager John Sitton's infamous 'bring yer dinner' diatribe in a fly-on-the-wall documentary 27 years ago.
