My brother met Rob Palmer from Sky at the bar in our hotel in Wembley before the play off final. Chatted to him for a bit, he confirmed he is from Hull and a Hull City supporter. Nice to know.
I'm sure he isn't a bad person , he appears to have stumbled out of the pub into a very well paid and highly visual job on ITV though
Chiles was good on the radio but on the TV he comes over badly with the forced humour, MOTD2 was a good show for him but not the main matches on TV
Ah yes, Rob Palmer another one. He is Sky's lead La Liga commentator and a regular reporter on Gillette Soccer Saturday. He covered Jeff Stelling in the presenting role of that programme once last season and it happened to be the night we travelled to (and destroyed) Cardiff. He had great delight in hearing the score line each time it increased and at one point said tongue-in-cheek, "As you would expect, there is no bias from this presenter unlike another on this programme" (referring to Jeff Stelling's support of Hartlepool). [Words to that effect anyways]. And NFU, how can you not like Tyler? His recent commentaries of Man City Vs QPR and Bayern Munich Vs Chelsea were both excellent and he is far and away the best commentator in the country at the minute.
Have you not watched ITV at all this past season? Drury and Beglin have commentated together several times over the last season on FA Cup and Champions League games. They were together last night too for Russia Vs Czech Republic.
Didn't see the game last night( working)and due having a life don't watch every game on TV. That might explain my obvious lack of knowledge in this field.
Chiles is probably a nice guy, but as a football presenter he's just **** and his head just looks wrong. Bring back Elton Welsby!
Is he the same bloke that Harry Redknapp told to **** off after simply stating he hasn't been that busy in the transfer market
They will be together again on the Rep of Ireland/Croatia game tomorrow my sources tell me - if you can catch that?
Beglin is the co-commentator on PES (to anyone who doesn't know, it's a football console game like FIFA, but less popular) and his comments on that game drive me insane. I don't understand why they get good commentators to say such stupid things when they must know when they are recording it that it is utter bollocks. I wish I had an example now but I can't think of anything, it's just generally inappropriate and nonsensical stuff.
I've played PES 2012 believe it or not, to be fair the commentary on that game is utter ****e, one thing about Fifa is there is a wide range of commentaries, I'm not into football games right now but used to play Fifa with the German commentators on
I generally don't like FIFA, but the commenary makes PES look utter ****e. There are loads of long conversations about specific clubs and players whereas PES just goes on about teacups being thrown by 'the manager' at half time regardless of the way the game has gone.
PES is actually a more playable game but sometimes you can see where its lacked the resources of FIFA- am torn whether to get FIFA or PES later in the year as I heard PES has innovated the shooting system which should make it even better, i find FIFA to be a bit too wooden and not as fun to play usually
You don't need to convince me. I'm part of the minority that prefers the fluidity of PES to the licenses and realism of FIFA. That said, if you're excited about the new shooting on PES you'll be disappointed. The ability to put the ball where ypu want in the goal and the corners are hardly ever hit, even when you think you've scored an ace goal you check the replay and it turns out to have been more or less central. One on ones are just a lottery.
