Why does talksport get so much stick?

[Didsbury Dave]

It gets stick because it doesnt give total support to City all the time

Haha. Very true.

 

[Project]

It's gutter programming. I'd say the Fox News of sports radio but that would be giving them credit.

 

[happy]

Talk Sport is ok, it doesn't pretend to be radio 4 and it knows its audience. It is at least honest in that we all know which teams the presenters support as apposed to the BBC where we can only guess (although Liverpool is the default setting for most of them).

 

[M24-CRC]

If you dont like it because some comments are derogatory about city, thats very petty......not everyone has to like us you know, get over it.

It's not just the fact that some comments are extremely biased and anti-City, the whole programme is like reading the bloody Sunday Sport - it's just a vile little nonentity that I have no time for.

You seem to know a lot about it for someone that has no time for it !!

 

[SpiritofBurnden]

You love to hate it because Collymore is an arse, Brazil an alckie, Irani just plainly not of this planet, Parry a desparate Alan Green wannabe, Hawksby & Jacobs a pair of arrogant pillocks, Durham a rabid tubthumper and Danny Spurs Bloke a pseudo intellectual Danny Baker.

I agree with you about Collymore and Durham. Why does the media think that people who've 'played the game' make good broadcasters? I can only really think of Ray Houghton on that station, who fits that description. Gough and Irani are thick as two short planks.

Parry can be amusing sometimes (why would anyone want to be Alan Green?!) and i certainly wouldn't describe H & J as 'arrogant'. It's worth tuning in for the first ten minutes of their show if Chelsea have lost just to hear a psychotic rant from Andy Jacobs!

Danny Kelly is a bit more than a 'a pseudo intellectual Danny Baker'. He's an intelligent broadcaster who knows his stuff, unlike many on that station. Although his epic stuttering does make it a difficult listen sometimes. He once referred to Pompey as, 'pee-pah-per-per-Pompey'!

 

[Mr Blue Sky]

1) Adrian Durham
2) Darren Gough
3) Mike Parry
4) Stan Collymore
5) Jason Cundy
6) Ronnie Irani
7) Alan Alkie Brazil
8) Haksbee and Jacobs
9) MIcky Quinn
10) Danny Kelly

Theres 10 good reasons why it takes so much flak only escapees for me are
1) Andy Townsend Cant understand why he hasnt twatted Parry on air.
2) Ian Dantser Brum fan but generally ok.
3) Mark Saggers why the fuck he left 5 live to join these clowns is beyond me.

 

[dom]

The minute it adopts the 'opinion' slot, they can't apply any objectivity to an argument. The presenters are generally the bottom of the barrel - Gough, Irani, &C - and I abhor those programmes which go on air with nothing in the script beyond a gripe (more often than not at City) and a prayer, who rely on the mass of ill-educated wannabes phoning in with something that not one person on the planet particularly wished to know. It's not only TalkShite, every channel seems more and more inclined to this 'genre' instead of creating a proper programme with guests and suchlike. Costs too much, I fancy, and they can screw the punters who phone in with their often cretinous points by getting them to pay for the call at inflated rates.

This

 

[fat boy blue]

Adrian Durham ok if you dont fall the obvious stuff designed to get you on the phone
Darren Gough - there village in yorkshire missing its idiot
Mike Parry - funny , its all made up , dont take him serously
Stan Collymore - there village in staffs missing its idiot
Jason Cundy - could be better, obsessed defending chelseas bad press
Ronnie Irani - there village near bolton missing its idiot
Alan Alkie Brazil - good banter
Haksbee and Jacobs - excellent ,apart from the odd Haksbee anti city rant
MIcky Quinn - fat scouse plonker
Danny Kelly - good
Andy Townsend - ok
Ian Dantser - good
Mark Saggers - boring
Andy Goldstien - not bad for a cockney rag
Ray houghton - knows his stuff but wont listen to anyone elses opinion & very disrepful to fans who actually go & pay

yes i do listen to it a lot , mostly because theres not much competition-sports wise

 

[Rammy Blue]

It's a guilty pleasure thing.

You love to hate it because Collymore is an arse, Brazil an alckie, Irani just plainly not of this planet, Parry a desparate Alan Green wannabe, Hawksby & Jacobs a pair of arrogant pillocks, Durham a rabid tubthumper and Danny Spurs Bloke a pseudo intellectual Danny Baker.

In the process it then helps to make you feel better (maybe even superior) about yourself as a human being! But I can't help tuning in just on the off chance they feed my City obsession with some glad tidings.

Nail. Head.

 

[Didsbury Dave]

It's a guilty pleasure thing.

You love to hate it because Collymore is an arse, Brazil an alckie, Irani just plainly not of this planet, Parry a desparate Alan Green wannabe, Hawksby & Jacobs a pair of arrogant pillocks, Durham a rabid tubthumper and Danny Spurs Bloke a pseudo intellectual Danny Baker.

In the process it then helps to make you feel better (maybe even superior) about yourself as a human being! But I can't help tuning in just on the off chance they feed my City obsession with some glad tidings.

Nail. Head.

I'd say that describes BLue Moon pretty well too.

Although amongst the shite, the wit, humour and exclusives are much better on here than Talksport.