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Post by Hannibal on Jun 26, 2018 17:55:28 GMT
Who are your favourites and least favourites.
I love Didier Drogba, but can't stand Guy Mowbray.
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Post by Rio Doherty on Jun 26, 2018 19:12:28 GMT
Favourites:
Slaven Bilic
Pablo Zabaleta
Least favourites:
Jermaine Jenas
Gary Neville
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Post by South Wirral Blue on Jun 26, 2018 19:27:49 GMT
Lawro gets tonnes of stick. He's different but not really sure he's as irritating as people feel obliged to claim.
Roy Keane's getting on my nerves now, his stern approach was comical at first but it's getting quite boring. Not sure what Eni Aluko's analysis brings either.
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Post by dmcnally on Jun 26, 2018 20:36:37 GMT
Favourites: Slaven Bilic Pablo Zabaleta Least favourites: Jermaine Jenas Gary Neville I don't mind Jenas! Young and speaks well. |
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Post by Anders on Jun 26, 2018 21:27:49 GMT
Came across a tweet about Jordan Henderson the other day, which I agree with and think it applies to Lawro as well. Don’t mind him as much these days myself.
“The Henderson thing has become a social phenomenon. People are socialised into believing he’s ‘rubbish’ such that they’ll watch football through such a warped sense of reality and continue to churn out the same engrained narrative regardless of how well he plays.”
Jermaine Jenas is pretty decent I find, generally talks sense. Strangely enough I don’t think McCoist or Dowie have been bad as co-commentators either, which is not something I expected. Thought I’d be turning the volume off with them but no, been alright as well even if Dowie is mumbly.
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Post by Lobster on Jun 26, 2018 21:44:32 GMT
Phil Neville’s come out with some right nuggets during this competition. He said something the other day about how Uruguay will be hoping to get further in this World Cup than they ever have before. They’ve won it twice!
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Post by devablue on Jun 26, 2018 22:28:40 GMT
Gary Neville, Slaven Bilic. Favourites. Jenas is okay but a bit boring. Steve Bower is an easy listen too, isn't he from chester?
Phil Neville, Lawro least favourite.
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Post by Deva Chanter on Jun 26, 2018 22:44:37 GMT
Slaven Bilic is brilliant I think and I quite like Martin O'Neill as well - both seem to know what they are talking about. From the ex-players I've quite liked Fabregas and Drogba.
Least favourites - never liked Danny Murphy, a negative boring drone who should never have been allowed back on TV after he kept trying to institutionalise the term "diagz" to describe diagonal passes on MOTD. Absolute fuckpencil.
Phil Neville and Ryan Giggs both come across like they have absolutely no idea what they are talking about which is worrying for the teams that they manage. Also been getting really fed up with Rio Ferdinand constantly chastising everything to do with the old England set-up, from Sven to the training bases and the hotels that were chosen for the players. It seems everything and everyone bar himself and the rest of the players who failed so consistently for so long to produce the goods are to blame.
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Post by tonya on Jun 27, 2018 0:57:29 GMT
Danny Murphy always has a shocker. The worst of the worst! Unfortunately the BBC also get Andrew Castle out of his coffin for the tennis. Now he is utterly unbearable. We all have our favourites...Danny Murphy is certainly one of mine. Links humour and football insight. The only one who used to offend me was Lawro because he wrote us off as a footballing city. In hindsight he had a point, but he still remains somewhat annoying. Roy Keane divides Irish fans....I expect insight and intelligence but am still waiting for it. However my Irish passport arrives soon so I won't condemn him. I have a nice large print of the legend Design Lynham who I photographed for the cd he did years back.....he inscribed it : Good luck Chester..etc. We spoke a lot about football...top man.... |
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Post by brettpaton23 on Jun 27, 2018 5:06:03 GMT
Controversy in Australia over one of reporters for SBS (who cover football the most here) and how she pronounces players names they way it would be pronounced in their home country, copping a fair amount of abuse on social media which personally i feel is unjust as she's doing a great job and seems to actually know what she's on about. Can't please everyone these days
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Post by sunking on Jun 27, 2018 20:10:13 GMT
Gabriel Clark’s reports from the England camp are full of vigor and enthusiasm..... not!
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Post by Lobster on Jun 27, 2018 20:15:57 GMT
Phil Neville has an annoying habit of making very basic and obvious statements, almost as if he thinks he’s talking to people with no understanding of the game. The BBC even saw fit to add this quote from him to their live text feed:
“Mexico look like a team going half at it. They won't want to lose the game and possibly go out, and they need to finish top of the group.”
He reminds me a bit of Andy Townsend, who used to irritate me by saying things like “they won’t want to concede here” when a corner was about to be taken.
Not a fan of Jonathan Pearce as a commentator either. He’s toned it down a bit from his Channel 5 days but I still think he overtalks and his observation of what’s actually happening is not that great.
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Post by Poe1974 on Jun 27, 2018 20:49:44 GMT
🤔 Love this, mind if I pinch that phrase ? 😂😂 |
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Post by rjshbdhmtrm on Jun 27, 2018 22:02:39 GMT
🤔 Love this, mind if I pinch that phrase ? 😂😂 . . . would that pencil be HB or 4H, oh fuck it, does it really matter? |
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Post by Frank Owen’s Paintbrush on Jun 28, 2018 7:11:03 GMT
Not really warming to Alex Scott SHOUTING excitable positivity every five seconds.
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Post by jimianto on Jun 28, 2018 8:59:06 GMT
Not really warming to Alex Scott SHOUTING excitable positivity every five seconds. I think Alex Scott is fab and so much better than Aluko. |
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Post by jimianto on Jun 28, 2018 9:02:00 GMT
Lawro gets tonnes of stick. He's different but not really sure he's as irritating as people feel obliged to claim. Roy Keane's getting on my nerves now, his stern approach was comical at first but it's getting quite boring. Not sure what Eni Aluko's analysis brings either. Agree on Keane - he looks so angry and I think the co-commentators look a tad scared of him! |
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Post by agl on Jun 28, 2018 9:02:32 GMT
Terry Butcher is good on 5Live. Also like Jenas. Bilic sounds like he would rather be at home dozing on his sofa.
Still coming to terms with Savage being given his own show. Truly awful.
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Post by devablue on Jun 28, 2018 9:16:07 GMT
Controversy in Australia over one of reporters for SBS (who cover football the most here) and how she pronounces players names they way it would be pronounced in their home country, copping a fair amount of abuse on social media which personally i feel is unjust as she's doing a great job and seems to actually know what she's on about. Can't please everyone these days Is that not what commentators should do? Most of the English do it. |
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Post by Lobster on Jun 28, 2018 10:16:32 GMT
Controversy in Australia over one of reporters for SBS (who cover football the most here) and how she pronounces players names they way it would be pronounced in their home country, copping a fair amount of abuse on social media which personally i feel is unjust as she's doing a great job and seems to actually know what she's on about. Can't please everyone these days Is that not what commentators should do? Most of the English do it. During the 2002 World Cup I think, there was a commentator who was insistent that Luis Figo’s name was pronounced ‘Fig-oo’. It seemed to wind everyone up. Some degree of Anglicisation is acceptable I would say. For example, a Portuguese speaker wouldn’t pronounce ‘Ronaldo’ the way we do, but if a British commentator kept trilling the R and shortening the O at the end, it would quickly get very grating. |
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Post by Deleted on Jun 28, 2018 10:18:18 GMT
Danny 'misery guts' Murphy. Dear oh dear, I bet the winter nights fly by in his household.
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Post by brettpaton23 on Jun 29, 2018 3:27:21 GMT
Is that not what commentators should do? Most of the English do it. During the 2002 World Cup I think, there was a commentator who was insistent that Luis Figo’s name was pronounced ‘Fig-oo’. It seemed to wind everyone up. Some degree of Anglicisation is acceptable I would say. For example, a Portuguese speaker wouldn’t pronounce ‘Ronaldo’ the way we do, but if a British commentator kept trilling the R and shortening the O at the end, it would quickly get very grating.This is exactly the one she's been copping it the most over |
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