Football commentary on ITV...

sarnian · Post by **sarnian** » Wed Nov 05, 2008 9:44 pm

Diss04 wrote:
sarnian wrote:
Diss04 wrote:
Frodo wrote:
alfie wrote:always quick to slag off ronaldo/drogba et al for diving, but they won't have a bad word to say about our good old english boy gerrard, who's one of the worst culprits.
Gerrard was a disgrace last night.

by the letter of the law, that was a foul, man.
I have never read the rule that says 'you must award a penalty if saint stevie g dives in the penalty area', man.
contact made on the player without playing the ball = foul. don't give a fuck if you're gerrard or frank sinclair; just how it goes. sounds like you haven't player the game, man.

Yeah, never played it at all

You are talking shite, there was accidental contact and gerrard dived to make the most of it. End of, boy.

diss04 · Post by **diss04** » Wed Nov 05, 2008 9:48 pm

sarnian wrote:Yeah, never played it at all

You are talking shite, there was accidental contact and gerrard dived to make the most of it. End of, boy.

had the ball been on the floor still would've been a foul. accidental or not - end of the day a foul is a foul...

sarnian · Post by **sarnian** » Wed Nov 05, 2008 9:53 pm

Diss04 wrote:
sarnian wrote:Yeah, never played it at all

You are talking shite, there was accidental contact and gerrard dived to make the most of it. End of, boy.
had the ball been on the floor still would've been a foul. accidental or not - end of the day a foul is a foul...

You are clueless. Even the most hardened Liverpool fans knew it wasn't a pen and gerrard dived. However they should have been awarded a pen earlier so it balanced out in the end.

frodo · Post by **frodo** » Wed Nov 05, 2008 10:00 pm

Diss04 wrote:contact made on the player without playing the ball = foul

So why wasn't it just a foul on Gerrard then?

This was never ever a penalty and every Scouser in the world knows it.

diss04 · Post by **diss04** » Wed Nov 05, 2008 10:03 pm

ahh what's the point?

football would be boring as hell if they introduced those video referees that that tnuc blatter mentioned a while back, we'd have nothing to argue about...

HamCrescendo · Post by **HamCrescendo** » Wed Nov 05, 2008 10:49 pm

Mickeys getting lucky in Europe is hardly something new.

-dubson- · Post by **-dubson-** » Thu Nov 06, 2008 12:19 am

sarnian wrote:david pleat is the king of mispronunciations..i remember all the way through one world cup he was pronouncing Kanu's name as 'Canoe-ay'.

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=YrgeuG83iRs

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=UctQOy4KmKw

lol

Pistonsbeneath · Post by **Pistonsbeneath** » Thu Nov 06, 2008 12:58 am

it is annoying...i like football like how i like any sport...im a palace fan but not hugely bothered about anything save for the game being entertaining...they often spout total bullshit about penalties, offsides etc...totally biase whereas bbc have more class than that

sarnian · Post by **sarnian** » Thu Nov 06, 2008 6:06 pm

I am always amazed by the lack of any depth in the analysis, half these guys played for 15 years or so at the highest levels under some great managers and have virtually nothing interesting to say about a game, especially tactically.

roo · Post by **roo** » Thu Nov 06, 2008 11:08 pm

football punditry and commentary just confounds me. how can it be so bad across bbc, itv and sky. the bbc irk me in particular though because its my money which is paying for these fools to talk about football and yet they only serve to infuriate me with their inane ramblings. hansen is a parody of himself and alan shearer is appallingly dull (as he always was, which begs the question, why on earth is he on tv?). but its shearers inability to analyse a game which really annoys me because every week on MOTD he seems to run out of ideas and then show a clip of a striker choosing not to "gamble". GGGGRRRR it makes me angry just writing about it

i think david pleat is coming in for a bit of unwarranted criticism though. i came to the conclusion a few years ago that hes just an old man that makes old man mistakes and cannot pronounce foreigners names, but if you look beyond that and listen to his reading of a football game its far more knowledgeable than any other other football commentator.

id say the only good people ive seen/heard are james richardson, gordon strachan, martin o'neill and david pleat. oh and i once saw henry winter on john barnes football night and thought he was impressive. perhaps tv should invest more in sports jounralists who write for reputable newspapers.

** i dont even have sky but when i go to the pub to watch football and i hear jamie redknapp he just makes me want to leave immediately.

mikey_g · Post by **mikey_g** » Thu Nov 06, 2008 11:21 pm

itv is shit

but it was a deffo penalty.

reverendmedia · Post by **reverendmedia** » Fri Nov 07, 2008 9:13 am

i think david pleat is coming in for a bit of unwarranted criticism though

i think this too. His style seems well out of place on ITV.

I reckon Chris Kamara is alright too - Unbelievable Geoff!

sinc_vision · Post by **sinc_vision** » Fri Nov 07, 2008 9:22 am

roo wrote:id say the only good people ive seen/heard are james richardson, gordon strachan, martin o'neill and david pleat.

no love for marcel desailly??

roo · Post by **roo** » Fri Nov 07, 2008 11:46 am

DJ Sinc Vision wrote:
roo wrote:id say the only good people ive seen/heard are james richardson, gordon strachan, martin o'neill and david pleat.
no love for marcel desailly??

actually yes i forgot about marcel. hes good as he's determined to get his point across and doesnt worry about disagreeing with his fellow pundits. although everytime hes on i swear hansen just takes the piss out of him... i think he feels threatened... and rightly so.

roo · Post by **roo** » Fri Nov 07, 2008 11:46 am

oops double post. apologies

jonnyrebel · Post by **jonnyrebel** » Fri Nov 07, 2008 11:54 am

terry shedingham thats brilliant pleaty well done....

diss04 · Post by **diss04** » Fri Nov 07, 2008 2:05 pm

roo wrote:
DJ Sinc Vision wrote:
roo wrote:id say the only good people ive seen/heard are james richardson, gordon strachan, martin o'neill and david pleat.
no love for marcel desailly??
actually yes i forgot about marcel. hes good as he's determined to get his point across and doesnt worry about disagreeing with his fellow pundits. although everytime hes on i swear hansen just takes the piss out of him... i think he feels threatened... and rightly so.

i think o'neals to boring and mark lawrenson is shite 'n' all. wrights alright, jeff stelling is the best however

sinc_vision · Post by **sinc_vision** » Fri Nov 07, 2008 2:37 pm

Diss04 wrote:i think o'neals to boring

dang! i think o'neil is the best pundit on the scene, hands down. i reckon they should just have him and lineker run the show.

diss04 · Post by **diss04** » Fri Nov 07, 2008 2:38 pm

DJ Sinc Vision wrote:
Diss04 wrote:i think o'neals too boring
dang! i think o'neil is the best pundit on the scene, hands down. i reckon they should just have him and lineker run the show.

footballs about opinions i guess and no doubt that o'neil knows his stuff and it's interesting what he's saying but he got a bit too wordy in his punditry of the euro's and i started shutting off

kins83 · Post by **kins83** » Fri Nov 07, 2008 2:39 pm

DJ Sinc Vision wrote:
Diss04 wrote:i think o'neals to boring
dang! i think o'neil is the best pundit on the scene, hands down. i reckon they should just have him and lineker run the show.

MON is a god. All hail MON. He does sometimes have a tendency to try to speak in an overly complicated manner which can sometimes make him quite tricky to understand. Even he seems to struggle to keep up with himself sometimes!

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