LHarper said:GazM said:Couldn’t stand Lawrenson’s comments about Balotelli – “if his brains were petrol he wouldn’t get out of the garage”. Tw*t. There is still a very anti-City thing going on at the Beeb.
Yes, have you opinions but it’s gone beyond that & become personal. What sort of comment is that ?
Lawrenson is an absolute joke. Balotelli speaks fluent English, I seriously doubt Lawrenson has a half decent grasp of any other language apart from flawless twat.
Also, even though Lawrenson's own eligibility for the Irish national team was due to his grandfather being Irish, he questioned Lukas Podolski's Germanness, who was born in Poland with German grandparents and has lived in Germany since the age of two. What a guy.
Here we go again! I'm sure someone else has answered your crass comment about Murray, but I can't be bothered reading the other pages.Eccles Blue said:johnny crossan said:Anybody else catch the exchange when Lineker turned on Hansen about "juvenile back references" in the pre-match build up? Earlier Hansen said that Mario had won nothing, Dixon came back with "The Championship?" then turkey neck opined that City only won it because Balotelli got banned after being sent off at Arsenal. They then went to some pre-recorded stuff and the incident occurred just as they came back.
Or did I imagine this?
No, you definitely didn't imagine it, Lineker twice hit back at Hansen over his remarks, once before they went to the pre-recorded and once when they came back. Well done Lineker.
Hansen was a prat all night and definitely didn't want England to win. Bit like that other Scottish prat Andy "I'm supporting any team but England" Murray. At least Enlgand got there!!
The same game where Rooney went over like a tart twice to absolute silence from the commentators. I'm not sure what they would have said if it had been Milner.kinkysleftpeg said:Im a Scotsman but as England had 3 city starters i was happy enuf for them to win but the commentry through the whole tourny has been terrible, Parker caught the guy on the side of the head with his shin by accident and Lawro is saying the guy is faking it unreal would love to have heard him had it been mario falling on someone!!!!
And also found it strange how England claimed getting to the QF was a surprise, there must be at least 6 of the starting #11 league winners so why wouldnt they get that far??
johnny crossan said:Anybody else catch the exchange when Lineker turned on Hansen about "juvenile back references" in the pre-match build up? Earlier Hansen said that Mario had won nothing, Dixon came back with "The Championship?" then turkey neck opined that City only won it because Balotelli got banned after being sent off at Arsenal. They then went to some pre-recorded stuff and the incident occurred just as they came back.
Or did I imagine this?
malg said:Here we go again! I'm sure someone else has answered your crass comment about Murray, but I can't be bothered reading the other pages.Eccles Blue said:johnny crossan said:Anybody else catch the exchange when Lineker turned on Hansen about "juvenile back references" in the pre-match build up? Earlier Hansen said that Mario had won nothing, Dixon came back with "The Championship?" then turkey neck opined that City only won it because Balotelli got banned after being sent off at Arsenal. They then went to some pre-recorded stuff and the incident occurred just as they came back.
Or did I imagine this?
No, you definitely didn't imagine it, Lineker twice hit back at Hansen over his remarks, once before they went to the pre-recorded and once when they came back. Well done Lineker.
Hansen was a prat all night and definitely didn't want England to win. Bit like that other Scottish prat Andy "I'm supporting any team but England" Murray. At least Enlgand got there!!
Anyway, why should a Jock support England? Did you support Man Utd in the Champions League Final against Barcelona? Because if you're suggesting that Murray should vie for England as it's the British team, then you should also back the Rags in Europe.
As for Hansen, he's a twat, but again why should he support England. If anything, why has the BBC got a Jock on talking about England anyway? I thought it was pretty obvious that he didn't want England to win, but if he's employed by the BBC as an impartial pundit, then he should either say no to his five star free holiday, or hide his feelings and shut the fuck up.
Zabbasbeard said:I have logged a complaint with the BBC and urge you all to do the same at:
<a class="postlink" href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/complaints/complain-online/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;">http://www.bbc.co.uk/complaints/complain-online/</a>
My complaint:
"I wish to complain in the strongest terms about the poor, biased, nasty punditry and commentary of the England v Italy match last Sunday.
The punditry of Alan Hansen and Alan Shearer and commentary of Guy Mowbray and Mark Lawrenson was disgraceful and their victimisation of Mario Balotelli was nothing short of a character assassination. It could be classed as bullying and victimisation. Hansen referred to Mario Balotelli as “stupid Mario” and said that he had won nothing, to which fellow pundit, Lee Dixon, replied “The Championship”. Hansen’s opined that City only won the Premier League because Balotelli got banned after being sent off at Arsenal. The facts say otherwise. Mario Balotelli provided the pass for the winning goal that sealed Manchester City’s Premier League Title on 13th May 2012 (he also scored 13 goals to that Championship). He's had a very succesful career so far: a Champions League medal, 3 Italian Seria A medals, 1 Premier league medal, 1 Italian Cup medal, 1 UEFA Supercup. All before the age of 22.
Lawrenson peevishly joined in with the character assassination. Mowbray said “Mario is having a moan” (but ignored all Rooney’s moans), and Lawrenson replied, saying of Balotelli “if his brains were petrol he wouldn’t get out of the garage”. It's not the first time that Hansen and Lawrenson in particular have stuck the boot into Balotelli. How standards have fallen. At very least the positions of Hansen, Shearer, Lawrenson in particular should be reviewed."