Mihir Bose quits

Can't say I didn't feel a little happy at the news that Mihir Bose has left the Beeb

I've always felt he contributed little to the sport side and was quite useless - occasionally there was a little nugget of information, but most of the time he was reporting the obvious or going off on some weird tangent about sport business

The guy was an investigative reporter who focused on the 'inside sport' (i.e. it's politics) recruited as a 'Sports Editor' - a new role, which I think, as with almost all modern creations, was poorly-thought out

What was the purpose of a sports editor? I don't think many thought Bose's ramblings into the political aspect of a wide variety of sports really lived up to that title - I think they expected more about the BBC's coverage of sport and a bit more prominence from the man named 'editor' - more akin to Nick Robinson or Robert Peston

I think he would've been better off in a specialised role - something to do with 'sport politics' or something, he already was into a very specialised area of sport in the Telegraph so to be given a remit merely for 'sport' seemed a bit daft

Bose was also quite clearly a cricket fan, and his interest in football seemed rather academic - it was a bad idea to open up his blog to the fanatical hordes in the football section who expect a lot more attention, again, he should've stuck to being a business reporter, or even to the cricket side

I think they were just asking for trouble, providing his content to fans who were there for rugged analysis of matches and transfers (the Ronaldo one was decent), but instead usually found a rather dry piece about the olympic museum

I think people are somewhat petty and like the same thing - they don't like you randomly dipping into football one week and then something more obscure that they don't want to read the next - like I said, this image wasn't helped by being called 'sports editor', which implies a good knowledge of all things sport - whereas Bose seemed more like a roving reporter more interested in back-room deals than the big stories

It was perhaps a very simple oversight - it's amazing how important a title can be, but I have to ultimately blame the BBC management for the rather poor performance we got