Culverhouse and Karsa suspended (Now both sacked: Reply #876)

[russon]

Claridge will not stop using the word "of" instead of "have" in pursuit of his blokeiness.  Luckily most of his attempts at what he regards as Punditspeak do not get transmitted as far as Perpignan. 

Punditry reached new depths when Danny Mills claimed during a recent commentary to be 'a little bit amazed'. I ask you. As for high pitched whining see Mark 'Lawro' Lawrenson, a legend in his own lunchtime and utterly insufferable in terms of lame ex-pro joshing and japing. The media merry-go-round of crap pundits with nothing of value to bring beyond the standard platitudes has to stop. When the camera pans in on the guest summarisers at the start of MOTD I feel I could weep when perming any 2 from Hansen, Savage, Mills, Lawrenson, Owen, the list goes on. And just when you thought matters couldn't get worse, cue bugalugs Lineker with his toe curling delivery and content, he's like a ham actor out of stage school playing at presenting. None of which regards the thread topic I know but I was moved to throw in my two penneth when reading Brian's quip about Claridge. PS. Garth Crooks should be an anagram of 'melodramatic balloon'.

[pauliewalnuts]

Steve Hodge Hill

I know I know I know

Where is the Hodge Hill station?

It was fun at first, but hasn't the whole train station thing got a bit done to death now?

People are just stringing footballer names with place names and hoping there's a station there.

[DrGonzo]

Oh and Shinjuku Nakata.

[pauliewalnuts]

Claridge will not stop using the word "of" instead of "have" in pursuit of his blokeiness.  Luckily most of his attempts at what he regards as Punditspeak do not get transmitted as far as Perpignan. 

Punditry reached new depths when Danny Mills claimed during a recent commentary to be 'a little bit amazed'. I ask you. As for high pitched whining see Mark 'Lawro' Lawrenson, a legend in his own lunchtime and utterly insufferable in terms of lame ex-pro joshing and japing. The media merry-go-round of crap pundits with nothing of value to bring beyond the standard platitudes has to stop. When the camera pans in on the guest summarisers at the start of MOTD I feel I could weep when perming any 2 from Hansen, Savage, Mills, Lawrenson, Owen, the list goes on. And just when you thought matters couldn't get worse, cue bugalugs Lineker with his toe curling delivery and content, he's like a ham actor out of stage school playing at presenting. None of which regards the thread topic I know but I was moved to throw in my two penneth when reading Brian's quip about Claridge. PS. Garth Crooks should be an anagram of 'melodramatic balloon'.

They sit there in their smart but casual shirts and nicely pressed trousers, fishing into the same big barrel of fucking cliches week in, week out, as that empty headed idiot Lineker eggs them on.

The BBC also persist in this belief that Robbie Savage is some kind of national treasure we all want to hear from, rather than an annoying prick 99% of football supporters would refuse to piss on, should they find him aflame.

Someone wrote an article recently in one of the broadsheets saying that there is a conveyor belt of bog-standard, unimpressive English managers on a gravy train from one hugely paid job to another, without actually achieving anything or innovating in any way. I thought that was spot on, but I'd also say it extends to pundits.

Does anyone - genuinely, anyone - in this country find themselves thinking "Can't wait to hear what Alan Shearer has to say about that!"? Or "That Michael Owen, he's absolutely nailed it there"?

There are two pundits worth listening to, in my opinion, Gary Neville and then - a fair way back - Roy Keane, and in the case of the latter, it's mostly only because he's so amusingly aggressive. The rest of them are truly dreadful. I'd happily have them led out of their studios and shot one after the other.

[olaftab]

If the papers are to be believed this morning and Lambert is planning to dispose of Sid and Shay...

Where's this, please?

Nowhere. It's a very negative spin by poster based on 2+2 makes 5 ...no 10!

[Louzie0]

PS. Garth Crooks should be an anagram of 'melodramatic balloon'.

Brilliant!

I can't watch FF, he irritates me so much.
I don't doubt his good intentions and he's probably a nice chap but the portentous delivery of his opinions comes across as overweening self-importance and it's really difficult to take what he's saying seriously as a result.

Whenever I've seen him interviewing somebody at a ground somewhere, he's a lot more natural and much better. Keep him out of the studio!

[Pat McMahon]

We might need Tony Stark, a real iron man on the coaching staff...

The way we are playing at the moment I would settle for Koo Stark.

[PaulWinch again]

Iain Dowie:

"I really believe it is Villa down," Dowie told talkSPORT. "It is going to be very difficult for Paul. Ian Culverhouse did a lot of the coaching and now he isn't there.
"It will be something a little alien to Paul Lambert. I just wonder where the goals are going to come from."

Well we got fuck all goals when Culverhouse was coaching so no loss there.

[olaftab]

We might need Tony Stark, a real iron man on the coaching staff...

The way we are playing at the moment I would settle for Koo Stark.

Where would you play her Paul? (supposing you have the 1982 version rather than how she is today)

[Legion]

In the hole?

[UK Redsox]

In the hole?

Pushing forward from the back ?

[Ron Manager]

We might need Tony Stark, a real iron man on the coaching staff...

The way we are playing at the moment I would settle for Koo Stark.

Bring back Roy Stark. Hes the man for the job.

[Tokyo Sexwhale]

Game of Thrones sort of spoilers:


Robb Stark

Spoiler for Hiden:

would be good for target practice.

Though his father might have them

Spoiler for Hiden:

running around like headless chickens.

[IAmTheOneIanOlney]

Claridge will not stop using the word "of" instead of "have" in pursuit of his blokeiness.  Luckily most of his attempts at what he regards as Punditspeak do not get transmitted as far as Perpignan. 

Punditry reached new depths when Danny Mills claimed during a recent commentary to be 'a little bit amazed'. I ask you. As for high pitched whining see Mark 'Lawro' Lawrenson, a legend in his own lunchtime and utterly insufferable in terms of lame ex-pro joshing and japing. The media merry-go-round of crap pundits with nothing of value to bring beyond the standard platitudes has to stop. When the camera pans in on the guest summarisers at the start of MOTD I feel I could weep when perming any 2 from Hansen, Savage, Mills, Lawrenson, Owen, the list goes on. And just when you thought matters couldn't get worse, cue bugalugs Lineker with his toe curling delivery and content, he's like a ham actor out of stage school playing at presenting. None of which regards the thread topic I know but I was moved to throw in my two penneth when reading Brian's quip about Claridge. PS. Garth Crooks should be an anagram of 'melodramatic balloon'.

They sit there in their smart but casual shirts and nicely pressed trousers, fishing into the same big barrel of fucking cliches week in, week out, as that empty headed idiot Lineker eggs them on.

The BBC also persist in this belief that Robbie Savage is some kind of national treasure we all want to hear from, rather than an annoying prick 99% of football supporters would refuse to piss on, should they find him aflame.

Someone wrote an article recently in one of the broadsheets saying that there is a conveyor belt of bog-standard, unimpressive English managers on a gravy train from one hugely paid job to another, without actually achieving anything or innovating in any way. I thought that was spot on, but I'd also say it extends to pundits.

Does anyone - genuinely, anyone - in this country find themselves thinking "Can't wait to hear what Alan Shearer has to say about that!"? Or "That Michael Owen, he's absolutely nailed it there"?

There are two pundits worth listening to, in my opinion, Gary Neville and then - a fair way back - Roy Keane, and in the case of the latter, it's mostly only because he's so amusingly aggressive. The rest of them are truly dreadful. I'd happily have them led out of their studios and shot one after the other.

On the rare occasions I watch MotD now, I always record it and start watching it 15 minutes in, so I can just fast forward the punditry. Lawrenson is particularly loathsome - he was a right arse to my missus once in the BBC bar, as unfunny, vain and smug as you'd expect him to be. (Incidentally, she had approached Mark Bright and told him, being a Palace fan, that he was one of her heroes. He replied, "You do know I'm not Ian Wright, right?", which I thought was pretty funny).
As for decent pundits, I wish they would just be able to have the likes of Martinez, or other similar progressive managers, on every week, along with half-decent journalists. Just because you played at a high level doesn't make you a good pundit.

Strachan was more interesting than most when he used to be on MotD2, as well.

[IAmTheOneIanOlney]

Apologies for crap use of quote.

Edited now after Modify tip...