Media discussion - 2025/26

We’ve had worse than last night’s, but it did annoy me slightly that Phillips kept banging on about Doku’s goal and how it should be an own goal because the keeper might have saved it without the deflection. Which of course is irrelevant if it was on target.
 
Newman Noggs said:
Crikey, I thought the commentators were great by their usual standards. They mentioned all our injuries, explained that several players were rusty and even managed to shoehorn in the price of Florian Wirtz. I thought they were very complimentary.
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Nowt up with the commentary narrative wise last night, but some of it was a tad inane
 
Norbiton said:
We’ve had worse than last night’s, but it did annoy me slightly that Phillips kept banging on about Doku’s goal and how it should be an own goal because the keeper might have saved it without the deflection. Which of course is irrelevant if it was on target.
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Said the exact same thing to the TV repeatedly! What a stupid comment!!
 
Fiftyyearsandcounting said:
Double commentators must be one of the worst innovations in TV coverage. Two guy having a conversation and paying little attention to the actual game.
The attack you mentioned is probably the same one that frustrated me. A City counter attack, several clever passes but not a mention until Bobb had a shot on goal.
You can couple poor commentating with the camera focusing on replays of corners, fouls, managers, crowd reaction and players spitting and not what's happening on the field. Particularly when you can hear the crowd getting excited by something.
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Reminds me of the old BBC Radio commentary with that windbag, Alan Green.
He could and would talk about all kinds of shite, when commentating.
When him and his co-commentator discussed the standard of the half-time Pie, I realised that BBC Sport is an absolute joke.
Do they still employ that other Statto fanatic, Jonathan Pearce ?
 
waspish said:
Just searched who was the commentators and they could identify one of them as >>

David Phillips, a former Manchester City player (82 appearances, 1984-1986) and German-born Welsh international, was identified as the co-commentator.
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Fuck me, and our lot need rugby players FFS ;-)
 
Platt Lane 59 said:
Reminds me of the old BBC Radio commentary with that windbag, Alan Green.
He could and would talk about all kinds of shite, when commentating.
When him and his co-commentator discussed the standard of the half-time Pie, I realised that BBC Sport is an absolute joke.
Do they still employ that other Statto fanatic, Jonathan Pearce ?
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I well remember the miserable, moaning, curmudgeonly Alan Green.
Live, on air, he once told someone in the crowd to sit down because he was blocking his view. You could clearly hear the accused telling Green to "Go fuck yourself, I've paid to get in".
Often, his co-commentator would be Jimmy Armfield, a knowledgeable and unbiased summariser of the game. On one occasion, following a crass comment by Green, Armfield called him an idiot. Although on the radio, you "could see" Green's face.
 
Fiftyyearsandcounting said:
I well remember the miserable, moaning, curmudgeonly Alan Green.
Live, on air, he once told someone in the crowd to sit down because he was blocking his view. You could clearly hear the accused telling Green to "Go fuck yourself, I've paid to get in".
Often, his co-commentator would be Jimmy Armfield, a knowledgeable and unbiased summariser of the game. On one occasion, following a crass comment by Green, Armfield called him an idiot. Although on the radio, you "could see" Green's face.
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Agree re. Jimmy Armfield, always objective and intelligent in his observations about the games he'd comment on, unlike that self-important, irritating wazzock Green. Mind, Jimmy was a Manc so one would expect nothing else!

He was always understated, unlike Green et al.. and so many of today's pundits and commentators follow the Green route rather than that taken by the Jimmy Armfields and Kenneth Wolstenholmes of this world.

Mind too, I remember Jimmy Armfield once co-commentating with Maurice Eddleston (now, there's a guy who could have his own thread..!) on one our games in the 70s when he described Peter Barnes as 'a down-and-out winger..' when he clearly meant Barnsey was an 'out-and-out winger'! Classic!
 
johnevans said:
Mind too, I remember Jimmy Armfield once co-commentating with Maurice Eddleston (now, there's a guy who could have his own thread..!) on one our games in the 70s when he described Peter Barnes as 'a down-and-out winger..' when he clearly meant Barnsey was an 'out-and-out winger'! Classic!
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Ricky Holden would better fit the description of a down and out winger!
 
blue b4 the moon said:
Miserable ****.
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His constant moaning always used to get massively on my tits. The **** was watching the game for free, and getting paid to do so, and all he did was moan from start to finish.

Said some seriously disparaging things about City too.

****.
 
gordondaviesmoustache said:
His constant moaning always used to get massively on my tits. The **** was watching the game for free, and getting paid to do so, and all he did was moan from start to finish.

Said some seriously disparaging things about City too.

****.
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The worst for me was Plett he always call the rags just Manchester. It really use to piss me off never said Manchester United just Manchester as if they were the only team from Greater Manchester.
And of course dancing across of beloved Maine Road turf in his curb pulling suit.
 
give it to gordon said:
The worst for me was Plett he always call the rags just Manchester. It really use to piss me off never said Manchester United just Manchester as if they were the only team from Greater Manchester.
And of course dancing across of beloved Maine Road turf in his curb pulling suit.
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Kerb crawling ****.
 
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