Best/Worst Pundit

[6ft Kerplunk]

I met Pat Nevin in '83 when Clyde were on a pre-season jaunt in Aberystwyth and I was on some summer football camp thing. Chelsea were there at the same time and signed him very soon after. Both sets of players did some coaching with us and a Q&A session which prompted this amusing exchange as none of us knew who he was other than he did good tricks "What's you full name name Pat?" "Pat <slight pause> rick".

[genome]

Chris Sutton making a run for worst pundit:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/38962906

"I don't see how Ranieri can keep his job"

[BR2]

I thought Niall Quinn was bordering on unlistenable last night-all he could offer was that Bournemouth were plucky and committed when they were being mullered.
They ran about quite a lot and offered very little.

[BR0B0T]

I thought Niall Quinn was bordering on unlistenable last night-all he could offer was that Bournemouth were plucky and committed when they were being mullered.
They ran about quite a lot and offered very little.

He's ex-city! Very biased against United (this may redeem him for you )

[genome]

It does annoy me how condescending commentators/co-commentators are towards the smaller teams. Heard it in the Burnley vs Chelsea match. They were praising them but it was all so patronising.

In a similar vein, one of my absolute worst commentators, Peter Drury, is like this. If one of the big teams is playing a smaller side, he commentates such an air of inevitability in the tone of his voice when they are attacking, as if it's a foregone conclusion they will score. It does my nut in. Jonathan Pearce does this as well.

[BR2]

I thought Niall Quinn was bordering on unlistenable last night-all he could offer was that Bournemouth were plucky and committed when they were being mullered.
They ran about quite a lot and offered very little.

He's ex-city! Very biased against United (this may redeem him for you )

[Ian Royal]

Has anyone watched 'Gary Neville - The pundit' on SS1 yet? Even he had a pop at Sky for having so many ex Liverpool players as pundits.

Wow, even famously pro-Liverpool Gary Neville?

[leon]

It does annoy me how condescending commentators/co-commentators are towards the smaller teams. Heard it in the Burnley vs Chelsea match. They were praising them but it was all so patronising.

In a similar vein, one of my absolute worst commentators, Peter Drury, is like this. If one of the big teams is playing a smaller side, he commentates such an air of inevitability in the tone of his voice when they are attacking, as if it's a foregone conclusion they will score. It does my nut in. Jonathan Pearce does this as well.

Peter Drury, is and has always been, the biggest cnut on the planet. Appalling man.

[glass half full]

Savage has just called sutton 'a clown'.
Neutral corners, please!

[genome]

Savage has just called sutton 'a clown'.
Neutral corners, please!

That was a proper ding-dong. I agree with Savage on the subject in general though. Really don't like Sutton.

[From Despair To Where?]

It does annoy me how condescending commentators/co-commentators are towards the smaller teams. Heard it in the Burnley vs Chelsea match. They were praising them but it was all so patronising.

In a similar vein, one of my absolute worst commentators, Peter Drury, is like this. If one of the big teams is playing a smaller side, he commentates such an air of inevitability in the tone of his voice when they are attacking, as if it's a foregone conclusion they will score. It does my nut in. Jonathan Pearce does this as well.

Peter Drury, is and has always been, the biggest cnut on the planet. Appalling man.

Is Drury the one who w@nks himself into a frenzy of over-excitement at the sight of a throw in?

I always used to think the BBC had the best commentators, possibly because every 4 years they would be packed off to some far flung destination to commentate on handball or water Polo and it kind of kept them grounded, but now the BBC get specialist commentators in for most events, they're now all dreadful.

I used to like Jonathan Pearce until the last World Cup when he went on a 5 minute rant about how shit goal line technology was when it had just given 2 perfectly correct decisions in the space of 10 seconds and he was too self absorbed to keep up with what the fcuk was happening.

[stealthpapes]

I used to like Jonathan Pearce until the last World Cup when he went on a 5 minute rant about how shit goal line technology was when it had just given 2 perfectly correct decisions in the space of 10 seconds and he was too self absorbed to keep up with what the fcuk was happening.

yeah, that was a bit unedifying. Wasn't it that the ball hadn't crossed the line, then it clearly had, or the other way around? Christ.

[From Despair To Where?]

A shot hit the post but didn't cross the line and then the keeper made a hash of collecting the loose ball as it rolled along the line and fumbled it marginally over. The replay correctly showed that the initial effort did not cross the line and that the fumble did.

Pearce wasn't paying attention and was absolutely convinced that the technology had got it wrong and then changed its mind despite the 2 replays clearly being of two different incidents. He proceeded to rant about how it didn't work properly for an embarrassingly long time even as further replays clarified exactly what the goal line technology had said.


France v Honduras

[BKRoyale]

Jenas is definitely my fave at the moment. One of the only more recently ex-players who is positive in most of his commentary - seeing what weaker teams were trying to do, without it coming off, not just saying it was rubbish and what on earth were they thinking trying that against the might of Man U/Chelsea/Liverpool etc.

[stealthpapes]

A shot hit the post but didn't cross the line and then the keeper made a hash of collecting the loose ball as it rolled along the line and fumbled it marginally over. The replay correctly showed that the initial effort did not cross the line and that the fumble did.

Pearce wasn't paying attention and was absolutely convinced that the technology had got it wrong and then changed its mind despite the 2 replays clearly being of two different incidents. He proceeded to rant about how it didn't work properly for an embarrassingly long time even as further replays clarified exactly what the goal line technology had said.


France v Honduras

cheers.

[Ian Royal]

A shot hit the post but didn't cross the line and then the keeper made a hash of collecting the loose ball as it rolled along the line and fumbled it marginally over. The replay correctly showed that the initial effort did not cross the line and that the fumble did.

Pearce wasn't paying attention and was absolutely convinced that the technology had got it wrong and then changed its mind despite the 2 replays clearly being of two different incidents. He proceeded to rant about how it didn't work properly for an embarrassingly long time even as further replays clarified exactly what the goal line technology had said.


France v Honduras

Yeah, I remember feeling genuinely embarrassed for the moron.

[No Fixed Abode]

Has anyone watched 'Gary Neville - The pundit' on SS1 yet? Even he had a pop at Sky for having so many ex Liverpool players as pundits.

Wow, even famously pro-Liverpool Gary Neville?

Not sure this entirely makes sense.

[glass half full]

Kevin Kilbane and Jason Roberts came across as a good team on Final Score IMO.

[AthleticoSpizz]

Kevin Kilbane the IRA supporter shouldn't have a job on British tv

[double d]

Listening to robbie savage on talksport makes me want to stab myself in my ears with rusty nails. The most annoying pundit on tv and radio. His voice, hair, attitude, clothes, just the way he goes on about things like he was a world class player with an opinion does my nut in.