Tell us all about them, which ones you can't stand, which ones simply haven't got a clue and which ones you respect and actually listen to.
Out of the regular pundits on BBC, ITV and SKY, only one comes to mind (in my opinion) that actually knows what he's talking about, Alan Hansen on BBC. First, he's not insanely biased towards British clubs, he always sees matches objectively, even if one of his teams is involved like liverpool. Second, he is probably the only pundit that goes in depth instead of just spurting out a sentence or two and leaving it there. Third, I like the way he focuses on negative defending, maybe because this is the way I always look at goals: how they could be prevented and so on. Fourth, he is always interrupting the useless turd that is Mark Lawrenson and Fifth, during the UEFA cup semi final when Celtic were playing, he went completely OT and started praising Thuram's display in the champions league the previous night, then compared it to the standard of defending on show in their featured game. IMO this is good knowledge and I'm sure the knowledgeable fans out there appreciated it.
Worst pundits have got to belong to ITV..the two I am going to pick out are Andy Townsend and the infamous "Big Ron" Atkinson. The one thing they share is an incredible bias towards English clubs, and in particular, they have recently become Arsenal fans. In addition, they appear to have irtually zero knowledge of the game, incredible being ex players/manager but their analysis barely lasts more than 10 seconds and even then iuts a load of crap. They very rarely accept that a foreign team has been totally superior to an English side (unless of course its Real, who they apprently love to bits and one of the ITV team publicly admitted he wanted Real to score in those last few minutes in the Delle Alpi - I'll get on to him in a minute). Anyway, bias is somewhat inevitable, that I can stand, but some ofthe commentary from these two is borderline racist. They often stereotype the Italian game, clearly having never witnessed a Serie A match between them in their whole lives, diving is often ignored by the English player, but one dive by an Italian and its the "bloody foerigners" attitude. Anyway these are the worst.
Most hated commentator is John Barnes because he clearly has something against Juventus, having been caught on camera cheering when Barcelona scored agsinst us and being the guy who admitted wanting Real to put us out in the semis. Obviously this cannot be explained as him being a fan of the other teams - who supports Barcelona AND Real Madrid??
Over to you, which PUNDITS (not commentators) do you love and loathe, and why?
Out of the regular pundits on BBC, ITV and SKY, only one comes to mind (in my opinion) that actually knows what he's talking about, Alan Hansen on BBC. First, he's not insanely biased towards British clubs, he always sees matches objectively, even if one of his teams is involved like liverpool. Second, he is probably the only pundit that goes in depth instead of just spurting out a sentence or two and leaving it there. Third, I like the way he focuses on negative defending, maybe because this is the way I always look at goals: how they could be prevented and so on. Fourth, he is always interrupting the useless turd that is Mark Lawrenson and Fifth, during the UEFA cup semi final when Celtic were playing, he went completely OT and started praising Thuram's display in the champions league the previous night, then compared it to the standard of defending on show in their featured game. IMO this is good knowledge and I'm sure the knowledgeable fans out there appreciated it.
Worst pundits have got to belong to ITV..the two I am going to pick out are Andy Townsend and the infamous "Big Ron" Atkinson. The one thing they share is an incredible bias towards English clubs, and in particular, they have recently become Arsenal fans. In addition, they appear to have irtually zero knowledge of the game, incredible being ex players/manager but their analysis barely lasts more than 10 seconds and even then iuts a load of crap. They very rarely accept that a foreign team has been totally superior to an English side (unless of course its Real, who they apprently love to bits and one of the ITV team publicly admitted he wanted Real to score in those last few minutes in the Delle Alpi - I'll get on to him in a minute). Anyway, bias is somewhat inevitable, that I can stand, but some ofthe commentary from these two is borderline racist. They often stereotype the Italian game, clearly having never witnessed a Serie A match between them in their whole lives, diving is often ignored by the English player, but one dive by an Italian and its the "bloody foerigners" attitude. Anyway these are the worst.
Most hated commentator is John Barnes because he clearly has something against Juventus, having been caught on camera cheering when Barcelona scored agsinst us and being the guy who admitted wanting Real to put us out in the semis. Obviously this cannot be explained as him being a fan of the other teams - who supports Barcelona AND Real Madrid??
Over to you, which PUNDITS (not commentators) do you love and loathe, and why?
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