The W*NKERS who make football worse.....
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FFS, enough is enough - Jack Whitehall - a smug, posh, censored who's about as funny as a rectal prolapse is commentating on Final Score??!!! ARRGHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH.
Ok, I have to put up with the fact that 97% of all people who play the game I love are total w*nkers, but why oh why can't we have some intelligent, insightful, balanced, rational pundits / commentators in the mainstream terrestrial media? They DO exist out there: James Richardson, Sid Lowe, Henry Winter. So why so small minded and obsessed with employing dull witted and self serving ex-pros? There is such a thing as an intelligent football fan AND WE DESERVE BETTER!
Why do we have to put up with:
Colin Murray - egotistical, smug, irritating and ubiquitous
Mark Bright - bell end
Garth Crookes - from which F***** planet?
David Pleat - cliched, cannot pronounce any names
Motson - tired, should be put out to graze
Alan Green - anti-referee, lacks insight, excitable, unbalanced, dull
Alan Shearer - mind numbingly boring, cliched, tows the line, scared to criticise
Lineker - a goon
Hansen - well past sell by date
Jamie Redknapp - inane, cliche ridden ponce, scared of controversy
Steve Claridge - high pitched, blowhard, strong opinions no matter how ill thought out.
A few notable exceptions:
Jeff Stellling
Adrian Chiles
Gabriel Marcotti
Pat Nevin
Ok, I have to put up with the fact that 97% of all people who play the game I love are total w*nkers, but why oh why can't we have some intelligent, insightful, balanced, rational pundits / commentators in the mainstream terrestrial media? They DO exist out there: James Richardson, Sid Lowe, Henry Winter. So why so small minded and obsessed with employing dull witted and self serving ex-pros? There is such a thing as an intelligent football fan AND WE DESERVE BETTER!
Why do we have to put up with:
Colin Murray - egotistical, smug, irritating and ubiquitous
Mark Bright - bell end
Garth Crookes - from which F***** planet?
David Pleat - cliched, cannot pronounce any names
Motson - tired, should be put out to graze
Alan Green - anti-referee, lacks insight, excitable, unbalanced, dull
Alan Shearer - mind numbingly boring, cliched, tows the line, scared to criticise
Lineker - a goon
Hansen - well past sell by date
Jamie Redknapp - inane, cliche ridden ponce, scared of controversy
Steve Claridge - high pitched, blowhard, strong opinions no matter how ill thought out.
A few notable exceptions:
Jeff Stellling
Adrian Chiles
Gabriel Marcotti
Pat Nevin
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go the match and make your own mind up
my criteria for the commentators/pundits is more scientific eg
Colin Murray - Supports LFC so is a good man.
Mark Bright - bell end
Garth Crookes - bigger censored
David Pleat - Lord censored
Motson - grandfather of bellends
Alan Green - dull censored
Alan Shearer - a geordie censored
Lineker - bluenose punning censored
Hansen - Top man
Jamie Redknapp - Top man also
Steve Claridge - looks like he should be selling insurance
Andy Townsend - makes out he WAS the lynch pin of the rep of ireland squad...I mean what did he do
Jeff Stellling..good man stelling ("What does Agger do do do ")
Adrian Chiles..his face is becoming evermore like a Pukka pie
Pat Nevin- dont mind nevin, talks sense even for an ex blue.
honourable mention also to Dion Dublin and Phil Thompson.
Lawro is still the man for me.
Do you remember when hansen first started punditing. His comments were inciteful and based on experience. Nowadays they just seem repetitve. Infact the best pundit at the mo imo is iain dowie. When he co commentates on the europa league games he actually watches the game, so while the 'genuine' commentator is rabbiting on about football boots and wives having babies dowie cuts across his with reasons why the number 9 is out of position.
bring back ken wolstenholme is what I say.
momentarily from the herd and thinks for himself.
But Jamie Redknapp - Top Man??? I mean, REALLY?????
I'm a huge rugby league fan but never watch any challenge cup games on the bbc down to fact that their main commentator is Johnathan Davies, a man who's only knowledge of the game was to take all the money he could then jump back to union when he could fleece that code too!
Mark Bright - Who?
Garth Crookes - Who?
David Pleat - Who?
Motson - Name rings bellls
Alan Green - Who?
Alan Shearer -Ah, heard of him! Ex footballer, probably thick as 2 short planks and too close to those in power to want to offend them (Hasn't he been a manager too?)
Lineker - I've heard of him. Funny on the crisps ads!
Hansen - He's the DT's critic, can't be that bad then!
Jamie Redknapp - See Shearer (Isn't he hitched to that ex singer Louise, I would!)
Steve Claridge - Who?
A few notable exceptions:
Jeff Stellling - Who?
Adrian Chiles - ah, a journalist & TV presenter
Gabriel Marcotti - Who?
Pat Nevin - Who?
Can you tell I don't give a monkey's about football!
thanks for sharing
But Jack Whitehall was a new low yesterday.
One of the best bits of telly was Mark E Smith reading the classified results a few years back.
Agreed
Mark Bright - bell end
Don't mind him - not great but inoffensive.
Garth Crookes - from which F***** planet?
No I like Garth Crookes - I think it took him a few years to relax into it and I think he suffers from people having made up their mind about him too early.
David Pleat - cliched, cannot pronounce any names
Yes not a fan.
Motson - tired, should be put out to graze
No problem with Motty.
Alan Green - anti-referee, lacks insight, excitable, unbalanced, dull
Believes his own hype a bit - would be OK in small doses
Alan Shearer - mind numbingly boring, cliched, tows the line, scared to criticise
I like the guy, seems honest, but doesn't provide any insight.
Lineker - a goon
Think he does OK - bit too polished for my liking - would like to see him as a pundit.
Hansen - well past sell by date
Agreed
Jamie Redknapp - inane, cliche ridden ponce, scared of controversy
Agreed - think he's there to appeal to the women isn't he ?
Steve Claridge - high pitched, blowhard, strong opinions no matter how ill thought out.
Spot on.
A few notable exceptions:
Jeff Stellling
Yes does a good job
Adrian Chiles
Not for me - dull as dishwater but somehow has become a big money transfer in the TV presenter world.
Gabriel Marcotti
Who ?
Pat Nevin
Not too bad I suppose.
I'd like to see them have a bit of a discussion occasionally - a bit of disagreement - that's why I like Crookes - he's not afraid to say what he thinks and argue the point rather than look for the consensus.
it's a hard life if you don't weaken.
The only one who came close was Frankie Boyle with is observation that "Rooney won't be sold at the end of his contract at Old Trafford, he'll just be released back into the wild". Bang on. Let's have some of that on a Saturday night.
Not still bitter about Erland Johnsen are we?
And all the loudmouth Alan Green ever does is suck up to him.
Agreed about Colin Murray, anyone hear him getting torn to shreds the other night by some ex Moan U player (who was clearly very very drunk at the time) for daring to suggest that Lord Fergie of Extra five minutes, should stop being so childish with the media. It was like witnessing a vicious fight between two people you don't care about over something that you have no interest in. Marvellous.
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The most successful manager of my generation - Ferguson - is a small minded, childish, spiteful and generally dislikeable piece of work. A genius in some respects - most probably.
The core of the England team are vile, brash, spoilt, immoral, vulgar, grasping and greedy morons.
The people that run the game (The FA) are incestuous, incompetent and weak.
The people that run the most powerful clubs are power hungry, money guzzling, ego maniacs.
Football should be about romance and passion and community. And NO - IT ISN'T JUST A BUSINESS LIKE ANY OTHER!
Little wonder more and more people are turning away from the 'top end' of the game and returning to grass roots (FCUM, AFC Wimbledon etc..)
Some of us never left the grass roots. Wimbledon aside I have a bit of an issue with big club fans swanning into non league with their own mini me version of the parent club. Theres plenty of teams there already in the area that have been around for years and could really benefit from the disillusioned fans rather than seeing another drain on their fanbase and hopefully 1 decent payday whilst the newcomer club whizzes past to a regional or semi national level.
He does it here at 0:19, 0:29 and 1:14. That is the result of just a quick YT search, there must be hundreds, nay, thousands of examples. Watching him present is worse as it lasts, err, it lasts more than a minute, err, a minute or two.
Damn, its catching.
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MOTD - tired old boys club.
Lawrenson - good player, failed manager, failed coach, failed co-commentator, failed pundit.
Pleat - unprofessional. Saw him once as the "expert" on an Arsenal game, said he hadn't seen them yet that season. Not only unprepared, but as a high up at Spurs how can he not be up to speed on Arsenal? Our bosses would be ripped apart for not knowing what the competition would be up to.
Jamie Redknapp - the main reason not to give his father the England job.
I dont give a monkeys what the reason is he must not get the England job. How can we have someone with a tax evasion case hanging over him managing our National Team? Even if he is found not guilty I dont think he should get the job, ever.
Given what is said/shouted in the stands, what'd be the point?
I remember a kid, couldn't have been more than 7 or 8 years old, behind me during a derby match I was at screaming "f*ck you you blue cnuts!" to which his dad went "That's it son
Forgive me for sounding a little marxist and snobbish but it's ultimately a working class sport, and that is part of it. It just wouldn't feel like football otherwise.
Bit of a conflict of interests methinks. Of course you don't want him to manage England, you've never had it so good.
Nothing to do with that honest guvna
I'm naturally a lazy [email protected], and never do much that I don't have to, but he has driven me to write two emails of complaint to Sky Sports this season alone. I can't remember when I previously sent any kind of complaint to anybody... And I'm still seriously considering chucking in my subscription if they put him on as the pundit for the next Spurs v censored *al match.
Pleat hasn't been at Spurs since about 1990...
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