Peter Drury replaces Martin Tyler on Sky Sports

kippaxwarrior said:
Thing is the commentators back in the day let the football do the talking and would only talk when they absolutely needed to. Barry Davies was brilliant at that.

Now there's an incessant need to constantly talk constantly for 90 minutes and just bombard you with drivel and useless facts
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and give us their opinion.. I don’t give a fuck what you think just tell me what’s happening
 
So a couple of weeks ago I was watching the Bahrain GP and the commentator (David Croft) made a joke about a British driver using the term Code: Germany or something.

'I don't know what it is, but I do know that anything that involves Germany always ends the same way, with them winning on penalties'.

His co-commentator and the analysist on at the time just ignored him, as this was an awful line. He repeated it a few minutes later to the same reception.

Tyler last night uttered, 'De Bruyne, De Gea, De-rby.'

I swear Sky just employ the corniest fuckers to do their commentary.
 
Ennis said:
His time must be up now, he’s 75 year old and turning into a mumbling mess, he’s going the same way motson did. There was 5 mins yesterday when it sounded like I was listening to someone visisting their dad in a nursing home. As he’s got older he obviously doesn’t give a fuck about being impartial either especially all things related to the Rags. Can’t believe he provided the soundtrack to our greatest moment. I’m now convinced he actually said “Balotelli....agerrrr NOOOOOOOOOO”
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It was 100% a shriek of pain! He now tries to make out he was part of that goal. He can fuck right off trying to hijack that moment he was hurting big time!
 
I very rarely listen with the commentary on nowadays as I found it was influencing my perception of the game too much. There’s been a lot of times I’ve noticed where commentators or pundits go in with a narrative they want to push, or decide it very quickly during the game, and then feel compelled to stick with it regardless of what’s happening on the pitch.

I did listen yesterday though and one they were pushing on our side was around De Bruyne and him being the only one trying to make things happen and put the effort in without the ball on our side. It was bollocks, he was as culpable as the rest, the narrative they went for though was that he had a good game and must have been getting frustrated with his colleagues. He might well have been, his colleagues would have been with him too though as he was far from his best.
 
The commentator the other day informed me that a footballer (can't remember who) hadn't scored with a header since 1st December 2018 - What am I supposed to do with this information, why is it useful to me?
 
The sad thing is that he was a pretty good commentator in his ITV days when there were no agendas fed to him for regurgitation and no sycophants telling him how wonderful he is.
 
jimharri said:
It's a toss up between him and Darke as to who's the worst. Darke was scandalously bad last night, constantly banging on about who x or y cost. He should have stuck to the boxing, something he had a modicum of knowledge about. Him and Tyler nearly make me miss the days of "Motty".



Nearly.
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After our takeover Darke who is a Pompey fan was asked what would be his football dream. You would think, Portsmouth to win the League, Cup, get in Europe, but no, it was for City to get relegated under Mark Hughes, he hides it quite well but the constant snide digs are obvious to our fans.
 
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