Current trend: Co-commentators whining through the game

[lazerblue]

I used to wonder if it was an act, him being so dull and monotonous. Like he’d rather be mucking out the stables than watching a game of football. But nobody can act that well, he really does have all the personality of a used tea bag.

If you think he's bad just wait till milner retires

 

[plongo]

I reckon McManaman is by far the worst for this, his nasal Scouse accent doesn't help but he utters some fairly obvious comment and then repeats the sentence three times in the next 30 seconds as if we're all deaf!

that's right isn't it Fletch

 

[plongo]

McManaman spent most of last night moaning about Newcastle being too defensive. We played some great stuff but the commentators never noticed.

He also said that Shelvey's assault on David's ankle early on was "nice and aggressive" how does he get away with a comment like that FFS?

 

[dennishasdoneit]

This obsession TV companies have with getting “star” ex-players in as career pundits brings next to no insight from 95% of them. Players may well have played the game, but it doesn’t mean they know the game.
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Correct.

 

[dennishasdoneit]

Also Steve Bruce is so irritating with his whole 'I'm so Geordie I piss Newcastle Brown, me' shtik. Yeah, so Geordie you went and managed Sunderland.

Brilliant.

 

[dennishasdoneit]

I think Alan Green on Radio 5 was the first person I noticed doing this. He'd huff and puff or tut if the game was less than exciting instead of doing his job and selling the game to us..... and if his beloved Liverpool were playing poorly he'd sulk for the rest of the game, I heard Jimmy Armfield RIP (the co-commentator) a couple of times having to tell him to buck up.

Your absolutely right in what you say....but i always think back to Stuart Hall when radio commentary is mentioned.
Back as a kid in the mid 70s i always had my litte transistor radio for sat pm football ,in partc the "round the grounds" feature on radio2...and used to love listening to Hall who was invariably at Maine Road...boy did he bring the afternoon to life..whilst other commentary was more muck and nettles...Hall would be going on about pigeons on the pitch..,Peter Swales Toupee blowing in the wind, the roar of the kippax,storm clouds over the North stand..basically a highly theatrical 1min snippet in which he mentioned the actual score ,right at the very end ...as tho it was incidental!

Anyway fast forward 30 yrs and i noticed a Hall interview on u tube( before the sex case allegations ) taken at his home address in leafy Cheshire.(?).clearly a very wealthy man..an interviewer asked him

Stuart ..how did you manage to make such interesting radio commentary?
Without a moments hesitation,and with a dead-pan expression, he replied " Oh i just made it up!"

That was that then .and then i found out he was a sex pest ..oh great.you spend your sat afternoons as a kid listening to a deceiptful pervert. Lol
Anyway ...id rather have a dull presenter giving it how it really is,than showbiz bollocks.
I reckon Hall might still be inside ,doing his time,he was an avid supporter of Swales back in the dark days he may well be reading this..so much more to hall than " here come the belgians "

 

[Mike Cledford]

I reckon McManaman is by far the worst for this, his nasal Scouse accent doesn't help but he utters some fairly obvious comment and then repeats the sentence three times in the next 30 seconds as if we're all deaf!

McPointy's wife is blonde and beautiful as one might expect from a footballer's wife.

But she qualified as a barrister and speaks French, German and Spanish. What on earth does she find to talk about with that husband of hers who cannot even keep the interest of football fans talking about the one subject he should know plenty about.