Commentary Complaints Thread

[Uppercut]

Cannot believe ITV hired John Hartson. Sometimes when a player becomes a pundit it's disappointing to discover what terrible company they are, but he's been a notoriously thick head-melter for 30 years.

 

[Furball]

You'd never guess he's had brain surgery would you?

 

[Lillian Thomson]

Dion Dublin is the worst co-commentator so far. He just sounds like a drunk on the terraces.

 

[flibbertyjibber]

Last night's combination of Pearce and Murphy made my ears bleed. Awful. Shouting man has always been terrible and Gollum adds nothing to any conversation and his bias always shows.

 

[ripper868]

Last night's combination of Pearce and Murphy made my ears bleed. Awful. Shouting man has always been terrible and Gollum adds nothing to any conversation and his bias always shows.

was that the UK coverage of Aus/France?

 

[flibbertyjibber]

was that the UK coverage of Aus/France?

Yeah. On BBC

 

[ripper868]

I had no clue of names as not a regular, but agree, was difficult listening

 

[Tangles]

The US commentators poor as usual with “between the lines”, “ball on a rope” and “posting up” comments. The last one at least makes sense if you watch basketball.

 

[Prince EWS]

Cannot believe ITV hired John Hartson. Sometimes when a player becomes a pundit it's disappointing to discover what terrible company they are, but he's been a notoriously thick head-melter for 30 years.

We all immediately thought of Michael Vaughan when we read this, right?

 

[Burgey]

Can't really complain here when we have Martin Tyler calling a lot of games on SBS. I know he's the living dead and older than water, but he's still got it. His "Richarlisonnnnnn... Oh, pick that one out!" this morning was a bit of vintage stuff.

 

[Adders]

Yeah Martin Tyler is excellent......was wrapped to read he'll be calling all the England games. Not sure the Aussies are gonna be that fortunate?

 

[Burgey]

Yeah they had a local Aus bloke calling the France game with Harry Kewell doing co commentary.

 

[MW1304]

Dion Dublin is the worst co-commentator so far. He just sounds like a drunk on the terraces.

Dreadful in this game. Regularly calls something wrong, realises, then mumbles something incomprehensible.

Can there not be some screening for such a public job like this?

 

[Uppercut]

Dreadful in this game. Regularly calls something wrong, realises, then mumbles something incomprehensible.

Can there not be some screening for such a public job like this?

Dublin's been a TV presenter for years, you'd think he'd be better than this.

 

[MW1304]

Dublin's been a TV presenter for years, you'd think he'd be better than this.

I don't even dislike him, he can have a good presence on Final Score, but he's so bad at commentary.

 

[Furball]

Can there not be some screening for such a public job like this?

I believe in the UK they're called Sky contracts.

 

[wpdavid]

Dreadful in this game. Regularly calls something wrong, realises, then mumbles something incomprehensible.

Can there not be some screening for such a public job like this?

I think that Dublin's incomprehensible bits are probably his best contributions. He really doesn't have a clue.

 

[GIMH]

Not a new observation but Danny Murphy is like a miserable pub bore

 

[MW1304]

He attempts to do the Mark Lawrenson dry critical thing, but it doesn't work.

 

[Lillian Thomson]

“Surprised how hard Lewandowski works for a superstar”.
Don’t give up the day job.