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Bellend commentators

Thanks for naming Jonathon Pierce guys, hes fookin awful. Yes he has toned it down now hes on the beeb, but his commentary is more suited to WWF than football. When England lost to Prtugal on penos in Euro 04 - " Oh NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"

He's like a 14 year old girl at a JLS concert, screaming for no apparent reason - ...." AND ROOOOOOOOOONEY...........HE'S WON A THROOOOOOW INNNNNNNN!"
 
Does anyone else remember the Bolton commentator who managed to get on Fantasy Football League? Absolutely hilarious. Not much to like about Bolton, but this guy was just fantastically biased!

Better than Phil Walder anyhow.
 
Deutsch Wolf said:
Motson can't say "Drogba" properly and he's just a senile old fool these days.
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That's what I was going to post. He seems to orgasm at the slightest bit of excitement too. Which doesn't conjure up a nice image in my head.
 
Paddingtonwolf said:
Sid Waddell - a sad, sad self-parody now.
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I'm usually ok with Sid. But what annoyed me last week was his total lack of acknowledgement of the shit Adrian Lewis was having to endure.

He kept going on about a boisterous Glasgow crowd getting on Adie's back, as coins and lighters bounced off the board and didn't mention them once.
 
Sid went to university with my uncle. He used to be brilliant and is an incredibly intelligent bloke, but all this 'understacker, overstacker, lipstick' shit is awful now.

I hadn't heard how bad it was in glasgow, but that is disgusting behaviour. Barrie Hearn seems to be planning to stamp it out, so I guess it will be best behaviour required at the grand slam this year.
 
Henry Blofeld - He turns me into a nervous wreck whenever he commentates on Test Match Special as every ball he commentates on has the feel that a wicket will be taken. I can actually stand him when he's taliking about the pigeons or the trees or the buses its just when he gets onto the cricket that he annoys me.
 
he's a fatuous old windbag

peter alliss - warbling on about the tea and cream cakes party for dear old ethel at St Nobodyknowsit golf club somewhere in outer bloody mongolia. Ken Brown - intensely annoying.
 
I hate Blofeld.

"And here comes Johnson, oh no it's Hauritz, bowls, and Strauss, no Bell, hits it, and is it caught?!! No, all along the ground for four, and England are 163-3, no sorry, 263-3, er 263-4."

Travelling back from my mate's wedding down in Surrey during the 2009 Ashes, put the radio on in the car, he was wittering on about something for a good five minutes, causing me to shout "JUST TELL ME THE FUCKING SCORE YOU C**T!!!!" Mrs DW was not amused.
 
Yeah, but you don't only listen to TMS for bald cricket stats and chat, do you? HB will no doubt have drunk himself to death soon anyway so you'll be shot of him.

Not really a commentator, but Sue Barker's simpering schoolgirl schtick really gets on my tits. BBC tennis coverage in general is cringeworthy.
 
Yes - it is dreadful, with the exception of McEnroe who calls everything pretty much as he sees it.

It has been awful for years though. Silence for minutes followed by 'Oh I say' was not commentary, Maskell.

In general, if the BBC get an event in the crown jewels on, they send all their people to it, even if they haven't a fucking clue. Take the golf. Radio 5 I can be listening to Westwood lining up a vital putt and Claire fucking Balding is describing it to me. Arrrrrgggggh. I don't want Nick Faldo calling home the winner of the Grand National so what makes them think this works?

Oh - and another complete tit - Inverdale.
 
I'd rather have Tim Westwood telling me about Lee Westwood than Claire Balding. I accept she knows about horse racing and what have you but I never watch that, so why do I still see her all over my TV?
 
I like Clare Balding and even put her down as one of the ones to be stuck down the Chilean mine with thread. I don't buy into the fact that you have had to play the sport at the highest level to be able to commentate on it.
 
Sniffer Grouse said:
I like Clare Balding and even put her down as one of the ones to be stuck down the Chilean mine with thread. I don't buy into the fact that you have had to play the sport at the highest level to be able to commentate on it.
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Oh, of course not. Give me a quality broadcaster over a Paul Merson style "expert" any day. But her field of expertise is not golf. I wouldn't know whether she is or isn't good at talking about horses because I don't watch it, I have less than zero interest.

Of course the two aren't mutually exclusive. As has been pointed out on the other thread, just as two examples, Brian Moore and Sam Torrance are former players who happen to also be excellent at commentating on their former sport.
 
Deutsch Wolf said:
Of course the two aren't mutually exclusive. As has been pointed out on the other thread, just as two examples, Brian Moore and Sam Torrance are former players who happen to also be excellent at commentating on their former sport.
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Martin Brundle, Anthony Davidson and James Hunt are also classic examples of good commentators who participated in the sport at the top level. Jonathan Palmer, on the other hand was kakh.
 
Law's Bus said:
Martin Brundle, Anthony Davidson and James Hunt are also classic examples of good commentators who participated in the sport at the top level. Jonathan Palmer, on the other hand was kakh.
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Palmer was an odd one. I think it was his background as a doc, he just sounded robotic. In the flesh he was way more enthusiastic, mabye speaking into a mike just froze him up.
 
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