Dear all,
Born and raised in Amsterdam, supporting PSV Eindhoven, opening a new thread on this Blue Moon Forum. Thanks!
Two of the most insane minutes in stoppage time must have been City-QPR match in 2012. For me, as a Dutch fan, I am mesmerized by Tyler's commentary. But, if I'm right when reading the comments, Tyler's commentary isn't your favorite? Did I understand that corrrectly? Is it because Tyler is supporting ManU (I'm assuming?). Or: what's the best commentary regardering these two insane minutes?
Greetings from Amsterdam!
Being in the ground at that time I never knew about that commentary until the days after it happened. But Tyler was superb in commentary for that goal, he was brought to tears when talking about it as the pinnacle of his career in an interview. He also visited Agüero and gave him a present for providing him with that moment as a commentator. I think he’s a genuine bloke and a lover of football.
The most iconic commentary moment in English football since, ‘
some people are on the pitch, they think it’s all over… it is now’.
He was also the commentator for our late promotion clinching goal that Trevor Morley scored at Bradford in 1989.
Some fans don’t like Tyler for his unenthusiastic commentary for other goals we’ve scored. For me, he was alright when it came to City. He was never one for sly digs like you get from other commentators. He just used to keep fairly calm when surrounded by United or Liverpool fans at Old Trafford or Anfield as I think he had a bit of an over-respect for or a fear of their fans in the stand around him. It was nothing more than that.
I’d noticed over the years that he was quiet for a lot of goals scored by away teams at a lot of grounds. It’s telling that there was a ‘Martin Tyler hates Liverpool’ thread on their main fans forum, yet City fans would claim he was a massive Liverpool lover and went mad for them. People hear what they want to hear sometimes.
There was an event on in Manchester that commemorated that title win and Tyler was invited down and was booed by some City fans there. He looked a bit confused when that happened. He genuinely didn’t understand why he was being booed, which tells me there was genuinely no purposeful or meaningful disappointment within him when City scored goals and he sounded a bit laidback about it.
I thought that was a bit bitter really from those booing and made us look like oversensitive dicks to be honest. Sometimes we need to get our head out of our arses as a fanbase. Not everyone is out to get us and not everyone has an agenda against us. Sometimes there will have been other reasons for him not always going wild when City scored. Our bench at Anfield has been spat at and had coins thrown at them, maybe Tyler just knew who he was surrounded by for those David Silva goals there that everyone remembers his commentary of. I thought we were better than that as a fanbase.
