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Voted for Townsend but only because Garth Crooks and Alan Shearer have not been added to poll:smile:
David ******* Pleat. Knows nothing. Utter utter ****.:angry:
Like having to choose what is worse between chlymidia and gonorrhea, but went for Birtles based on the fact that he hates any team south of Nottingham.
Pleat's knowledge is encyclopedic.
This is the Garry Birtles who was homesick when he moved to Manchester?
Was Merson hammered tonight? Talking absolute jibberish. Random words in no particular order
Phil Neville is/was pretty bad
I saw that. He was awful. Don't Sky care that a person can't actually string a sentence together?
Watch NFL or NBA and you have intelligent commentators and pundits talking a lot of sense
I'm weary of football becoming overintellectualised (is that a word? have I done a Merse?!). However it feels like we're not doing it justice when everything is completely dumbed down and the punditry is really poor in many cases.
Watch NFL or NBA and you have intelligent commentators and pundits talking a lot of sense (tactics, history etc) - enthusiastic commentary about the game and drawing out sensible narratives. Cricket is similar, where recently retired players have added useful insight into the game.
Watch MOTD and you have 5 mins of debate about Nolan's disallowed goal (it was offside, assistant got it right), watch Soccer Saturday (why soccer?) and you have Merson and co screeching like a pack of feral animals and talking absolute garbage. Listen to Lawrenson and he has about as much enthusiasm as a toaster. Townsend has the vocabulary of a dead crab.
I'm not an intellectual snob (blimey, given where I went to school I can't be!), and don't want football to be anything other than fun. However, to me, listening to Phil Neal, Paul Merson and the rest of the mob screaming every five minutes to try and make their game sound fun and important makes me cringe. Especially as none of them are very good actors, and it's pretty obvious they're not being sincere.
I don't think I've seen Phil Neal on TV since the Graham Taylor documentary!
Some of the time. The buddy-buddy nature of some of the NFL stuff is excruciating.
Pat Summerall and Madden were brilliant.
Whilst in the states I watched the F1 at the weekend on NBC.
They have 3 guys, 1 American and 2 Brits doing the commentary, one of which is a former Benetton mechanic, and also a British pit lane reporter. They all seemed a lot more relaxed and more jovial than our lot and it is quite enjoyable.
However, listening to Americans commendation on Soccerball does really make you cringe.
This sounds good. I've lost Sky F1 channel and so stream the non-Beeb games. Will give the NBC stream a go next time.