Oooh AHT, you’re a lot younger than you seem then;)To be fair to Tyler, he did give the Aguero moment some silence.
For me Davies’ line that sticks in my head is “You have to say that is magnificent” when Maradona scored his second goal.
I wasn’t around for the Lee moment, but obviously have heard it since!
Matterface is terrible for this. He must bring reams of paper filled with boring crap that he feels compelled to cram into the matchI go back a long way, nearly 70 now, so I enjoyed the wonderful commentary by the likes of Kenneth Wolstenhome and Motty, for example. These modern ‘commentators’ don’t actually commentate, they tend to chat with their colleague about stuff about football. I don’t mind this with cricket, because there is more space between the action, but if you were to ask me who is on the pitch for England this evening I think I could name 7 or 8 but the others never get mentioned. Motty and Ken just used to tell us who was on the ball, and maybe made a comment like ‘great pass’ or ‘what a goal’. These numpties only seem to want to witter meaningless stuff.
They can be useful identifying which player has the ball etc and the odd bit of background but as the OP said they're not a patch on Kenneth Wolstenholme for example. The current lot just don't get `it.Why do we need commentators ?
My eyesight isn't too good and my TV small by current standards which, make it difficult to read shirt numbers or names. It would be great if commentators could restrict themselves mainly to player identification.Why do we need commentators ?
How else will we find out about the boxing and rugby that's on later in the week?Why do we need commentators ?
That’s Cheesey isn’t it?When we're playing in Europe, I tend to watch on an Indian stream.
English commentary, with an English commentator, but he tends to be on his own. So no "bloke down the pub banter", just what's going on before our eyes. Perfect.
In fairness to the commentator they will have been instructed to do that.During our CL game against Slovan a few weeks ago, McCoist and Fletcher were rattling on and on about the upcoming boxing on the following Saturday. This was whilst play was going on. Unbelievable really. I found myself shouting at the telly "commentate on the fcuking game, for Christ's sake ! ".
Commentating standards are currently at an all time low, IMHO.