Football Journalists are generally the laziest, piss poor journalists of them all. Nobody embodies the over-opinionated, overpaid and the over exposed more that the consistently piss poor Alan Green.
I'm going to have to listen to his verbal muck on radio 5 live once again as I can't get to a telly this evening.
Have I missed something? Is Green actually a thoroughly astute observer of the game? Does anyone actually like listening to him?
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Complete total and utter wanker
The bloke is a prat, he knows nothing about football. He does not like Man U, he is so bias towards Liverpool it's embarassing.
Listen to him in a FA Cup game Prem V Championship team, he won't know any of the names from the lower team. The same on 606, any non-Prem fan just gets patronised.
He doesn't commentate he opinionates. He hates Beckham and Rooney and is actually in love with Jamie Carragher.
He is constatly telling us how Fergie won't speak to the BBC because of a falling out they had. Not true. Fergie fell out with the Beeb over an article in MOTD magazine.
PRAT PRAT PRAT!
Mike Ingahm is just so much better on 5Live and the underused Jonathan Pearce is the best of the lot.
Does my head in.
Have to switch it off.
Rather read Beeb live update texts instead.
The point about his complete lack of knowledge about anyone below the Premiership is a good one too - he's a terrible choice to present something like 606.
He's also definitely a Liverpool fan, although he does nothing but moan about them and Benitez's tactics. Apparently he's fallen out with Grahame Taylor (the most inoffensive man on the radio) because GT let slip on air that AG was a liverpool fan, and now AG is refusing to sit next to GT on any flights etc - how pathetic.
I like Mike Ingham, and in an ideal world Roddy Forsyth wold move south to join him and replace Green.
Tells it as it is, if a game is rubbish he'll say so. If a player is having a stinker he'll say so. There is none of the Sky protect the product nonsence of trying to find positives when something is rally bad... Not much of a 606 presenter i'll agree but surely there is room in the game for someone who isn't afraid to call a spade a spade.
I think he used to be as you describe but has now become a parody of himself.
Complaining about refs, going on about the Fergie thing, being the "I give to them straight" bit so much that you hardly get a comment on the match in progress.
Can't disagree with what's been said about Green on this thread. Nuff said about him.
Interesting point about his disrespect for non-Prem teams when he's commentating. The Beeb have many very good commentators who work very hard at what they do and come across really well, and they make sure they know the teams they're talking about. There really is no need to keep resorting to the same old names for the 'big games',
Rather like a good commentator then, Greeny.
Can honestly say I dont listen to any radio commentary of live matches, unless it's Charlton, England or Rangers, and I'm not near a TV.
Have no interest apart from listening to Talksport or 606 general discussions or phone ins (but very rarely).
Best thing on radio at the moment, Durham & Ian Wright on Talksport, cracks me up.
Apart from when he's commentating on - or talking about - anything to do with football. At which time he becomes a petulant, boorish, boring, crass moron.