bgoefc Posted July 1, 2014 Share Posted July 1, 2014 Whilst in Egypt watching the England games, I had to endure David "sneering" Pleat as the co commentator on beIN, the arabic Al Jazerra Sky equivalent. He fucking grates. Keys and Gray were wank too as was the clueless Moyes. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
smeghead83 Posted July 1, 2014 Share Posted July 1, 2014 Another vote for Carlisle, he spends half an hour explaining why a corners been given. At half time during the Holland-Mexico game he claimed it was impossible to play in that heat, well obviously it is possible you nob! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Henry_VIII Posted July 1, 2014 Share Posted July 1, 2014 Lawrenson on the radio with Alan Green is far worse. Makes this place look like Disneyland. This this and fuckin this. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moderators Zico Posted July 1, 2014 Moderators Share Posted July 1, 2014 We have good old John Helm over here, one of the few decent Yorkshiremen Had to watch a Canadian stream of the games last night and thought he was alright till he called the box the "penalty zone" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
COYW Posted July 1, 2014 Share Posted July 1, 2014 Smuggest of the smug is that Baggie bastard Chiles. He spends more time commenting on people in the crowd than watching the match. Surely you mean, Adrian er..., Adrian er..., Adrian er..., Chiles. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bolton va va Posted July 1, 2014 Share Posted July 1, 2014 Tyldsley & Townsend are beyond awful.....a commentator who doesn't commentate but pushes his clueless opinions as fact & an "expert" who only reacts to the previous 2 seconds' action but adds no insight at all. Pearce is a twat who constantly claims to spot off the ball /pitch controversies that simply haven't happened. On the plus side....Lee Dixon & Danny Murphy, & I thought Phil Neville spoke sensibly but has a dull monotone delivery. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marc505 Posted July 1, 2014 Share Posted July 1, 2014 Lawrenson gets on my tits as Ive moaned about on a few other threads - but very few of the other pundits and commentators have been any good either in my opinion. Juninho and Cannovaro - good job they talk shit, because its too hard to tell what theyre saying anyway. Keown's a shambles too. Chiles is just absolutely stealing a living for me - consistently awful for season after season now in that role on ITV he has. As for good pundits, I could listen to Tim Vickery all day long. Shame his focus is only South American football, itd be great for him to have a bigger BBC role during the season Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Not in Crawley Posted July 1, 2014 Share Posted July 1, 2014 To be honest, laughing at poorly educated men stumbling around for words to articulate a football match is a constant highlight. Poor show though that is. Henry has been the best for me, but that's mainly because I like his dress sense. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
COYW Posted July 1, 2014 Share Posted July 1, 2014 As for good pundits, I could listen to Tim Vickery all day long. Shame his focus is only South American football, itd be great for him to have a bigger BBC role during the season He has a weekly spot on Talk Sport in the afternoons. He does like the odd off-colour comment though. The dump button is often in evidence. I think he'd be deemed too risky by the BBC. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
magic legs Posted July 1, 2014 Share Posted July 1, 2014 Juninho was a terrible choice - it's an English show so it should be a prerequisite that any foreigners have decent English. Can't understand why no one employed Vialli - unless the Eyeties snapped him up. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DazBob Posted July 1, 2014 Share Posted July 1, 2014 Going against the grain here, but I don't mind Chiles at all. To me, he comes across as someone 'normal'. He doesn't profess to know everything about the game and doesn't try to make out that he does. Not sure why some folk think he's 'smug' either. Now if there is a smug presenter, then it's matt Smith with his constant ... and uneccessary ... pauses. As for the co-commentators, I can honestly say I think they're ALL dreadful. Lawrenson wins/loses for me though. He's probably the most 'experienced' of them all, but all he seems to do is sit there and come out with sarcastic remarks every now and again. The others are guilty of trying to hard to make things sound sensational. Was it Kilbane last night who was commentating on the France game? In one breath said all Pogba had to do was head the ball into an empty net, and with the next breath said it was a fantastic finish. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zurichwhite Posted July 1, 2014 Share Posted July 1, 2014 Hahaha watch itv player too. Use google chrome and sign up for zenmate if anyone wants to watch UK telly abroad for nowt Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
madthatter Posted July 1, 2014 Share Posted July 1, 2014 I read on a comments section, Guardian I think, the following: Robbie Savage - the village idiot Phil Neville - the nutter on the bus Thought that was a pretty good summary of those two:) Mark Lawrenson would make a depressive contemplate the final act! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Traf Posted July 1, 2014 Share Posted July 1, 2014 I don't mind Chiles. He's not from a football background and doesn't claim to know everything. He's not a big club loving media whore, just seems like an ordinary bloke winging it. Fair play to him. It's only his accent that makes him sound a bit thick. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Traf Posted July 1, 2014 Share Posted July 1, 2014 Neville spoke a lot of sense in a boring voice. Murphy has been the revelation. Tyldesley & Townsend are utter bellends. Thierry Henry bored me shitless, in his slow boring drawl. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
COYW Posted July 1, 2014 Share Posted July 1, 2014 Chiles is O.K. It's just those er..., those er..., those er..., wierd pauses he keeps doing whenever the producer speaks to him through his earpiece. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mannyroad58 Posted July 1, 2014 Share Posted July 1, 2014 Chiles is a cunt He has to try and turn everything into a joke, just fuck right off you unfunny fat brummie twat Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moderators Zico Posted July 1, 2014 Moderators Share Posted July 1, 2014 Chiles had a natural charisma going on when he was on the BBC, now he's paid miles more by itv it all seems forced and like he's trying to hard Same thing happened to des lynam Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jules_darby Posted July 1, 2014 Share Posted July 1, 2014 I don't mind Chiles. He's not from a football background and doesn't claim to know everything. He's not a big club loving media whore, just seems like an ordinary bloke winging it. Fair play to him. It's only his accent that makes him sound a bit thick. I don't mind him either We are clearly in the minority Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Traf Posted July 1, 2014 Share Posted July 1, 2014 I can't get how Chiles is labelled as smug when his opposition counterpart in Mr Smug Cunt Lineker himself. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
frank_spencer Posted July 1, 2014 Share Posted July 1, 2014 (edited) Chiles had a natural charisma going on when he was on the BBC, now he's paid miles more by itv it all seems forced and like he's trying to hard Same thing happened to des lynam I don't think having to pad til the ad breaks helps him as his forte on the beeb was to ask the questions as a layman and let the pundits explain it, on itv he has to cut them off to pay the bills. As much as it pains me to say it the wobbly gobbed tosser that is Rio Ferdinand has offered some really insightful comments and explained truthfully from a players view point the goings on on. Edited July 1, 2014 by frank_spencer Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Adlington Trotter Posted July 2, 2014 Share Posted July 2, 2014 I might be on my own here, but I think the majority of pundits/commentators/co-commentators are very good. I think the bashing of then has become a bit of a national sport over the past ten years or so. The only ones that get on my tits are Tyldesly, Pearce, Savage and Lawrenson. Which seeing as BBC and ITV have took about 997 pundits between then ain't many Was speaking to someone the other day who said Savage was ace because he was controversial. Fuck sake, anyone could go on TV and act the cunt just to get attention, which is what I think Savage certainly does on the radio. I'm really not arsed about pundits being controversial or even entertaining. I just want them to talk sense and offer some insight into the game having played it. If you want some attention seeker playing up for the cameras then stick to Jeremy Kyle! I'd have Shearer and Hanson over Savage any day. For the sake of explanation Tyldesley is melodramatic, Lawrenson tries to be sarcastic and funny (and fails), Pearce bums the big teams and Savage got Warhurst and Holdsworth sent off. Gigantic cunt. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Site Supporter Winchester White Posted July 2, 2014 Site Supporter Share Posted July 2, 2014 Danny Murphy last neet was pretty good as co commentator and Neville is good but boring. I don't mind Chiles either tbh. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jayjayoghani Posted July 2, 2014 Share Posted July 2, 2014 Hahaha watch itv player too. Use google chrome and sign up for zenmate if anyone wants to watch UK telly abroad for nowt Nice one pal! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pablo Posted July 2, 2014 Share Posted July 2, 2014 I hate all the ex pro's. They are all thick, and have no idea. Gordon Strachan said the other night "The cross is the most dangerous weapon in the world" !!!!!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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