Alex Scott new host of Football Focus

[I'm With Stupid]

Presenting is a different skill set, so being a decent pundit doesn't necessarily translate. Does anyone remember John Barnes presenting Channel 5's football coverage?

 

[FantasyIreland]

Is there a programme she isn't on?

Yes,but Jermaine Jenas is on them.

 

[ninjamonkey]

She seems to get overvalued as a pundit precisely because she's a woman. If a bloke came out with the same stuff she does, they'd be labelled as dull and pointless. Points out the obvious, keeps it safe and adds next to nothing. She's the female equivalent of Ashley Cole.

There's worse about, much worse but she's far from being good. Is she any better as a presenter? No idea but if it stops her being a pundit give her a shot.

Chappers is by far the best sports presenter, his football and nfl coverage is unparalleled.

 

[Boo or Boo-urns]

however I’ve seen her stuck a few times without an opinion and coming out with some silly stuff as a result.

Scott's description of the WC USA wimmins footballers was they all move around the pitch in "blocks of power!"

She just kept banging on about that phrase like it was a revelation.

 

[Ric]

Good on her, I like her.

 

[chesterbells]

Presenting is a different skill set, so being a decent pundit doesn't necessarily translate. Does anyone remember John Barnes presenting Channel 5's football coverage?

I don’t remember his punditry either tbf

 

[Thaksinssoldier]

Two comments (in bold) within posts trying to show you’re not people who think it’s the 1950s or that you don’t care about gender, that actually show you’re making an opinion about her because she’s a woman and comparing her to men, or that it’s a surprise that women know their stuff about football.

No the point was they are there because of what they do and not their gender, you chose to read that another way.

 

[chesterbells]

She seems to get overvalued as a pundit precisely because she's a woman. If a bloke came out with the same stuff she does, they'd be labelled as dull and pointless. Points out the obvious, keeps it safe and adds next to nothing. She's the female equivalent of Ashley Cole.

There's worse about, much worse but she's far from being good. Is she any better as a presenter? No idea but if it stops her being a pundit give her a shot.

Chappers is by far the best sports presenter, his football and nfl coverage is unparalleled.

Why pick Ashley Cole to compare her to? Just cos they were both Arsenal full backs?!
Fully agreed on Chapman, but to expect every other presenter to be at his level is a very high bar indeed.

 

[SamBlue]

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Chappers is by far the best sports presenter, his football and nfl coverage is unparalleled.........

He is a dying breed, when he retires or when they retire him as they did on NFL show, there will be no TV football journo/presenter left to watch. MOTM is not worth watching anymore with those dour faces for whom a football punditry greatest achievement is connecting three players with a triangle. So it is only left to wait and see if Dan the Man is going to football-focusize NFL shows.

 

[Xhavenjoe]

Should have gone to Sir Garth Crooks. Although Scott deserves it for being marginally better looking :)

Marginally.
Thank God you're not in charge of VAR as your marginal offside could be as much half the length of the pitch.