The BBC's sports coverage is second to none if you ask me, except in one area - the football commentary on 5Live.
This is a matter of some importance on Luntswood Grove. Having long ago stopped subscribing to SKY Sports, radio commentary is the only way I can follow Big League Plc matches these days. Where's Kenneth Wolstenholme when you need him?
Last night's game was a case in point. European nights at Anfield are always good etc and it sounds like Chelsea were exhilarating too, but this must have come as something of a shock to Mike Ingham, who had foreseen a drab nil all draw beforehand.
Everyone's a pundit of course and we all get stuff wrong, but Ingham is particularly grating. His know-all predictions are invariably wildly off the mark and his post match summaries often describe a different game than the one everyone else was watching.
And when I hear his whining voice piping up on 5Live's breakfast show, it makes me yearn for Terry Wogan on Radio 2. "The thing is, you know, I was thinking about Capello and, you know what, thing is, you know...." AAAAAAAAGH! SHUT UP! PLEASE!
My dream is to put Ingham in a Room 101 of Punditry with Glenn Hoddle. The two could discuss how Michael Owen (40 goals for England) just isn't a 'natural goalscorer'.
And don't get me started on Alan Green and his self-righteous, pompous histrionics.
BBC BOSS: "Al, we were hoping you could do this one in the style of the Revd Ian Paisley commentating on an Auld Firm game."
ALAN GREEN: "Yep, I can manage that."
Thursday, April 09, 2009
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In the build-up, Alan Green was also confidently predicting the "tight game" that never materialised. His smugness is really unappealing.
And don't get me started about the trainwreck that is 606 - totally unlistenable (except when Danny Baker is presenting).
Alan "Kopite" Green often refers to Liverpool as "we"
...nice to see some impartiality in commentating.
oh, and he's a total kn0b who moans about everything at any given opportunity.
It's getting to the stage now where I turn the radio off when he's commentating....
I particularly dislike the reaction of commentators to a late goal, to immediately take the story on. "And that's Liverpool out of the European Cup".
I can't bear Alan Green either - in the words of Stuart Hall - "a twat from Macc".
I think that the great Stuart Hall should be given live games to commentate on - there would never be a boring game on the radio again. The other day he actually managed to use the word pusillanimous in a report! The literacy of whole generations would be raised incalculably!
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