Stupid s*** commentators say

[D.Boon]

Steve McManaman loves to labour a point. Decent players get away with murder as co-commentators.

Unbelievable Fletch!

[Swipe]

Unbelievable Fletch!

 

*followed by a chuckle.

[Stanley Leisure]

If you think about it, it’s quite hard to just talk and sound knowledgeable about something for a prolonged period of time. I’m well-versed in a couple of niche areas, but I couldn’t get hours of ceaseless chat out of them. This is my theory on why they all talk so much s***.

Edited September 23, 2018 by Stanley Leisure

[Nathan Explosion]

I still prefer 'By fans etc...'

[NeilJ]

If you think about it, it’s quite hard to just talk and sound knowledgeable about something for a prolonged period of time. I’m well-versed in a couple of niche areas, but I couldn’t get hours of ceaseless chat out of them. This is my theory on why they all talk so much s***.

My impression is that they manage it on the cricket, on the whole, but that might be because I know far less about cricket than I think I know about football, so I'm less confident about saying that the cricket commentator is talking s***.

[Swipe]

My impression is that they manage it on the cricket, on the whole, but that might be because I know far less about cricket than I think I know about football, so I'm less confident about saying that the cricket commentator is talking s***.

 

Commentary and punditry is much better on NFL too. They don't seem to sneer at players and teams like football pundits do.

 

McManaman isn't even the sneeriest tbf, he's just really, really annoying. 

[kop205]

They are literallty commenting on a different game every time so they really shouldn't run out of things to say and have to just resort to talking s***e.

 

Maybe in circket a lot of the really great players, who can actually offer useful insights into technique, strategy etc, go into punditry rather than management/coaching whereas in football the opposite is still true to an extent? Even the really irritating ones in cricket like Vaughan and Swann still have good insights to offer when they stop trying to live up to the personas they are desperate to generate.

 

But doesn't explain I suppose why someone like Henry was a great player and utterly s***e pundit. Ditto Shearer.

[D.Boon]

Commentary and punditry is much better on NFL too. They don't seem to sneer at players and teams like football pundits do.

 

Yeah the NFL does a really good job with its commentary. That said Al Michaels is a massive c***.

[stressederic]

I think commentators here are often overly terrified of silence. As a result they just say whatever occurs to them instead of sometimes just letting the action play out.

[Ombudsam]

There is always a touch of "You know nothing" disparaging smugness in his voice when on with Kelly Cates and other female presenters on 5live.

I saw Savageput him in his place once by being more stupid than him. It was bizarre but Sutton looked trounced and Savage wasn’t even making sense.

[Ombudsam]

Steve McManaman loves to labour a point. Decent players get away with murder as co-commentators.

I loved him as a player for us but sometimes he’s talking incredulously about something a human being has done and all I can think is “I saw you do that”

Appalling. The forced 'I tell it like it is' persona is infuriating.

 

Aye. So gammon.

If you think about it, it’s quite hard to just talk and sound knowledgeable about something for a prolonged period of time. I’m well-versed in a couple of niche areas, but I couldn’t get hours of ceaseless chat out of them. This is my theory on why they all talk so much s***.

That’s Coogan on Partridge’s commentary pretty much word for word. Don’t think time means you can claim it as your own Stanley Leisure

Commentary and punditry is much better on NFL too. They don't seem to sneer at players and teams like football pundits do.

 

McManaman isn't even the sneeriest tbf, he's just really, really annoying.

 

I remember when he first went into it he said he didn’t want to be a moaning cliche

[Nebraska Red]

The worst commentators for me are the golf guys.

 

Regularly making toughish shots sound like there out of this world. FFS, you saw them do the same thing week after week.

Stfu and just commentate.

Edited September 23, 2018 by Nebraska Red

[Hassony]

It would of if you shut the f*** up.

Have no idea what you're on about here , sorry

[John am Rhein]

Chris Sutton is the worst. Tory is a great description

squashed like a bug by Vieira

American commentators: notice how much they avoid the present tense. So much of what they say is "we talked about..." or "it'll be..."

[Swipe]

Yeah the NFL does a really good job with its commentary. That said Al Michaels is a massive c***.

Some voice though.

[Earl Hafler]

I think commentators here are often overly terrified of silence. As a result they just say whatever occurs to them instead of sometimes just letting the action play out.

Most of them don’t appear to do any research on the teams involved.

[Sir Tokyo Sexwale]

I think commentators here are often overly terrified of silence. As a result they just say whatever occurs to them instead of sometimes just letting the action play out.

 

I think they're paid by the word