Pundits who are actually decent

Vienna_70 said:
Sty and TNT both use intelligent and articulate pundits for their rugby and cricket coverage, so why do we have to put up with inarticulate morons on their football?
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Great point. My guess is there are a lot of red cartel fan boys making the decisions as to who the pundits are on Sly and BnB. Also, I remember reading Soccernomics and they highlighted a lack of sophistication in English top level football in the 1990s and the 2000s. This started to change when Wenger and Mourinho came into the English game. In short, there were a lot of unsuitable/unskilled people running football on a business and tactical level. A lot of the worst pundits are players from this period. Garbage in. Garbage out. It will take a generation for this group to move on.
 
Anita Asante was co-commentator on a game (I can’t remember which one) I watched recently, and I thought she was very good.

She’s articulate and well-spoken, and she seemed to have a good knowledge of the game, which is more than can be said for certain others.
 
Vienna_70 said:
Joe Hart Is decent.

He’s well-spoken, intelligent and actually knows what he’s talking about.
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Love him and he is fine now but I think Joe Hart is going to go stale very quickly. Heard him say somewhere, (Think it may have been crouch's podcast) that he doesnt want to do negative punditry and he wants to concentrate on the positives. Sounds like a fair ethos to have but I suspect when we've had months of him dodging criticising anybody it will become tedious. I like Hart as a co-commentator, think he is better suited there.
 
With most, it’s over-exposure. When you’re commentating on 5 games a week, you run out of things to say pretty quickly.

And I’ll tell you something, then it’s cliché time. It really is.
 
Whether he counts as a pundit or not, Simon Jordan I'll go out of my way to listen to. In terms of matchday pundits Wayne Rooney has been pretty good.
 
City Hobgoblin said:
Pat Nevin says "just now" too frequently.
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Pat Nevin is a great pundit. Agree about the 'just now' bit, but he's a top bloke as well.
His wife was my sister's teaching asst a good few years back.

My Nephew had to organise a 'golf day' as part of his college course and Pat sorted out some 'old friends' to come along!

I know Darragh MacAnthony (Peterborough owner) isn't a pundit as such, but he gives a proper insight into the goings on in football.
 
Pubteam Lomas said:
Pat Nevin is a great pundit. Agree about the 'just now' bit, but he's a top bloke as well.
His wife was my sister's teaching asst a good few years back.

My Nephew had to organise a 'golf day' as part of his college course and Pat sorted out some 'old friends' to come along!

I know Darragh MacAnthony (Peterborough owner) isn't a pundit as such, but he gives a proper insight into the goings on in football.
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He always had a decent taste in music too
 
ninjamonkey said:
Love him and he is fine now but I think Joe Hart is going to go stale very quickly. Heard him say somewhere, (Think it may have been crouch's podcast) that he doesnt want to do negative punditry and he wants to concentrate on the positives. Sounds like a fair ethos to have but I suspect when we've had months of him dodging criticising anybody it will become tedious. I like Hart as a co-commentator, think he is better suited there.
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I agree maybe he can re-frame some of the negatives in a different way like improvement points perhaps. But generally he is top.
 
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