Would be quicker to come up with a list of the ones I do like.
Adrian Chiles has struck me as someone who steals a living ever since the England World Cup qualifier in Poland that got postponed on the night due to rain (last October?). The Polish authorities spent about an hour deliberating over whether or not the game could be played, and Chiles was responsible for keeping the viewers entertained in the meantime. Despite having Roy Keane, Gareth Southgate and Lee Dixon in the studio, he was unable to come up with any meaningful conversation other than lame jokes about only having one pair of pants with him and repeatedly stating that they were running out of things to talk about. Considering the amount of air time that is dedicated to discussing football on tv and radio everyday, I thought it was piss poor that he couldn't muster 45 minutes of decent debate with three former international footballers to help him out.
CAn't disagree with any of the previously mentioned names. Alan Shearer and Mark Lawrenson would be first in line for my firing squad though.
Peter Drury is by far and away the most infuriating for me. Everything he says is so contrived, especially when it comes to the FA Cup.
Will never forgive him for that 'Northwich Victorrriouussss!" comment he made 2 seconds after the final whistle when we were on ITV.
Was it Peter Drury who commented on the 98 playoff final? In which case the line “the notion of defeat is quite beyond this Charlton side’s sensibilities” is a great bit of commentary imo.
Don't know his name, but that bloke that pronounces everythink endink ing with a "k" rather than a "g". And he uses it a lot, so typically you'd get "passink the ball to Raheem Sterlink". Drives me nuts.
Don't know his name, but that bloke that pronounces everythink endink ing with a "k" rather than a "g". And he uses it a lot, so typically you'd get "passink the ball to Raheem Ster link". Drives me nuts.
He’s been very irritating. When at the game we have TMS on and every now and then it gets interference. We switch over to sky and within 2 mins of his voice we persevere with TMS with interference.
I can't stand Karen Carney. Manchester Uny-id, Soufam-urn, penal-ee...apparently, England is managed by Garef Soufgate and the players stand togevvur wiv im. All delivered in a voice that would make a chainsaw blush.
Just before the goal, he talked for about three minutes saying some bullshit he’d clearly pre-written where he referenced lines from ‘You’ll never walk alone’: “They’ve walked through some storms last year”; “They held their heads up high” etc.
This is the sort of bollocks that really grinds my gears. He was so determined to crowbar his “oh look how clever I am” bullshit in that he was paying no attention to the game.
Stop talking shit mate. Tell us what’s happening on the pitch. It’s literally your only job.
Just before the goal, he talked for about three minutes saying some bullshit he’d clearly pre-written where he referenced lines from ‘You’ll never walk alone’: “They’ve walked through some storms last year”; “They held their heads high” etc.
This is the sort of bollocks that really grinds my gears. He was so determined to crowbar his “oh look how clever I am” bullshit in that he was paying no attention to the game.
Stop talking shit mate. Tell us what’s happening on the pitch. It’s literally your only job.
Jonathan Pearce used to do that relentlessly on Capital Gold, he obviously had pre preprepared lines to use in certain circumstances. I don’t remember any of them being either as clever or as witty as he obviously thought they were.
Just before the goal, he talked for about three minutes saying some bullshit he’d clearly pre-written where he referenced lines from ‘You’ll never walk alone’: “They’ve walked through some storms last year”; “They held their heads up high” etc.
This is the sort of bollocks that really grinds my gears. He was so determined to crowbar his “oh look how clever I am” bullshit in that he was paying no attention to the game.
Stop talking shit mate. Tell us what’s happening on the pitch. It’s literally your only job.
Yeah it felt very forced, especially as I think the point he was trying to make was that Liverpool had a good end to last season - which I think he’d already mentioned about 5 minutes earlier!
Just before the goal, he talked for about three minutes saying some bullshit he’d clearly pre-written where he referenced lines from ‘You’ll never walk alone’: “They’ve walked through some storms last year”; “They held their heads up high” etc.
This is the sort of bollocks that really grinds my gears. He was so determined to crowbar his “oh look how clever I am” bullshit in that he was paying no attention to the game.
Stop talking shit mate. Tell us what’s happening on the pitch. It’s literally your only job.
Better get used to it, as he’s the main commentator replacing Martin Tyler on Sky.
Terribly contrived, to the point where it’s actually cringeworthy how forced it is.
Watching our stream on Saturday substantially into the game our commentator spent ages trying to suss out and say what formation we were playing. Oh it’s a 352 or a 442, no a 352, maybe a 433, it looks like a fluid system. All well and good, maybe informative and of some interest, but whilst that rambling was going on there was actually stuff happening from the footballers playing football on the pitch. Those who only had audio wouldn’t have known about the action taking place whilst the rambling was going on. Why not save the chatter until there is a break in the action? Is that really a hostile suggestion?
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Will never forgive him for that 'Northwich Victorrriouussss!" comment he made 2 seconds after the final whistle when we were on ITV.
Adrian Chiles has struck me as someone who steals a living ever since the England World Cup qualifier in Poland that got postponed on the night due to rain (last October?). The Polish authorities spent about an hour deliberating over whether or not the game could be played, and Chiles was responsible for keeping the viewers entertained in the meantime. Despite having Roy Keane, Gareth Southgate and Lee Dixon in the studio, he was unable to come up with any meaningful conversation other than lame jokes about only having one pair of pants with him and repeatedly stating that they were running out of things to talk about. Considering the amount of air time that is dedicated to discussing football on tv and radio everyday, I thought it was piss poor that he couldn't muster 45 minutes of decent debate with three former international footballers to help him out.
CAn't disagree with any of the previously mentioned names. Alan Shearer and Mark Lawrenson would be first in line for my firing squad though.
I remember one classic he used to say: "It's half time, where's my tea"
This is the sort of bollocks that really grinds my gears. He was so determined to crowbar his “oh look how clever I am” bullshit in that he was paying no attention to the game.
Stop talking shit mate. Tell us what’s happening on the pitch. It’s literally your only job.
Can sense Neville and Carragher are thinking ‘who’s this Bellend?’
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All well and good, maybe informative and of some interest, but whilst that rambling was going on there was actually stuff happening from the footballers playing football on the pitch.
Those who only had audio wouldn’t have known about the action taking place whilst the rambling was going on.
Why not save the chatter until there is a break in the action? Is that really a hostile suggestion?