I think it’s time all TV companies gave us the option to ditch the commentary, like Amazon did when they had the footy.
There’s far too much bias for it to be an enjoyable accompaniment to the game.
There’s also too much negativity all round from commentators and pundits. There’s not enough recognition of good play and too much recognition for poor play. A balance is fine; talking with fair assessments of the good and bad points of play or players is healthy... hanging players and managers out to dry (which happens a lot) is not; picking clubs they don’t like and using constant negative language and tone is a disgrace!
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.
Managers are always better pundits than ex-players. Always!
Even when relatively non-successful coaches like Alan Pardew (I say relatively because being a Prem ref is successful to be fair) have been on as pundits, they provide infinitely more insight into the tactics, technicalities and intricacies of the game than ex-players do. Without fail! Many of the ex-player pundits surprise you that they ever played the game with how little they understand of it.
Also, many ex-players are far too unintelligent. Nobody should be allowed on tele who doesn’t know that adjectives end in “ly” and that “done” is the incorrect past tense where they should be using “did” (and many many many many more).
“He done brilliant there”... FUCK OFF!
It allows a lack of intelligence to be acceptable in society. It pushes the myth that’s prevalent in many areas that being a thick **** is cool and being clever and speaking properly is not cool.
Most people who aren’t ex-footballers or rock stars won’t even get through job interviews in the real world when they speak like this. So that acceptance of thick as fuck language hinders society as a whole.
I really don’t mind a very strong accent. But someone can have the strongest example of an accent you’ve ever heard but still understand and use the correct words and grammar.
