F**k me, some of these fellas are truly abysmal.
I mean, who ever thought that Edgar Davids was ever going to bring anything to the party? Patrick Viera isn't great either, ditto Clarence Seedorf and Marcel Desailly. Jeez, it's almost a welcome relief to hear Gareth Southgate's monotone droning cos at least I can bleedin understand him!
Do you reckon French TV have got Chris Waddle talking shite? Or maybe Trevor Steven is on Dutch telly?
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It's almost embarrassing to listen to. It seems to have been dumbed down to the level of non-football fans with no idea about the game.
The only 2 pundits that have actually attempted to offer some decent tactical analysis is Hansen and Adebayor...if you can follow what he says!
Why couldn't we get Michael Owen or some world cup greats, instead frenchman
footnote, Adrian Chiles what a knob
Owen has no personality. I didn't like him, but at least Ian Wright injected some enthusiasm and honesty into it all!
Paul Robinson (the keeper) worked on Sky Sports a few times last year and he came across very well, someone should've signed him up.
Chiles doesn't seem to know sod all and makes so many bad jokes!!
It's probably only he and Hoddle that they would consider. But seeing as there are plenty of French people to do the job why would they bother? Don't know why we do it. That being said they don't even do analysis here in France; something that really pisses me off. You should think yourselves lucky: I stream the analysis at half time and after the match because I know Hansen, Dixon etc often have something interesting to say. In France it's 5 minutes build-up, adverts, 1st half, 15 minutes adverts, 2nd half, music & credits, The End (even when they were in The Final!)
Used to like the BBC when they also had O'Neill and Strachen plus Ian Wright.
Sounds like its a better setup than back home.
Things must be bad if that's the case.
I might start listening to 5 live!
ITV are always terrible.
Not very illuminating piece on the Robben Island Football League on BBC. A far more interesting story than the way it was told.
BBC were embarrassing slagging off their own game (NZ v Slovakia) as they expected Ivory Coast v Portugal and Brazil v DPR Korea to be so much more exciting. WRONG.
And Slovakia are not some footballing non-entity. They reached two finals in their old form.
Correct me if im wrong Henry, but would the main footballing body of Czechoslovakia become Czech Republic?....would it not be like comparing FYR Macedonia to Yugoslavia?
I agree, Seedorf was good value. There seems to be a common denominator in Off_it's post. Maybe he wants Big Ron back....
:-{
And what's wrong with him...he's fantastic....good reader of the game, undemonstrative cool delivery and very informative...there's nothing whatever to dislike about the bloke......... not like some folk that is.
WUM. I woudlnt rise to this Off It.
Agree whos decission was that he has no clue what hes on abpout same as someones decission to make a failed League 1 manager Vice president of FIFA or whatever high paid role John Barnes got that he diddnt deserve.
Yeah. Capello!
Adebayors accent combined with him being softly spoken and fast makes it a pointless exercise having him on IMO. No one will come out in the mainstream media and say so for obvious reasons.
My biggest problem with pundits is that they are often either current players or very close to current players. You are hardly likely to find Adebayor, Viera et al giving an honest appraisal of their mates performance when they know they'll be popping around their house for a BBQ at the weekend can you? There should be a policy of only employing ex-players