Is there a more irritating pundit on tv (male) than Jermaine jenas? Should have this warning before his fyass appears and he opens his gob And talks the absolute obvious or utter garbage
Whenever I tune in to watch a match live I turn on at kick off time, turn it off and miss half time then turn it off immediately the game is finished. Punditry has ruined watching live football for me, even the match commentary is missable but I put up with it. Don't have a best or worst pundit as I just don't watch them...simples.
My continuing gripe is the way these "Experts" actually speak. I don't expect a would-be TV Pundit, or Presesnter to speak with the Queen's recieved English, or even BBC English. I also don't mind the current day diversity of all regional accents now deployed. However, Jemain Jenas, Alex Scot, on The One Show and on Football Focus with Martin Keown and Dion Dublin, they all continiously fail to pronounce words containing the letters 'TH' 'With' becomes 'Wiff' and 'Wiv' 'Three' becomes 'Free' No dispespect, but this was pointed out a while ago on, Points Of View that this mispronunciation of said words are largely from either the Black Communities, and/or Cockney folk. I remember the last F.A. Cup draw......33.....was actually FIRTY FREE ! FFS ! ......errrrm, rant over
I can't stand to listen to any fick bastards, and I tell them, when I can, that if they can't be bothered to speak properly I can't be bothered to listen Lazy bastards . . . . 'cos that's what they are
TV pundits...analyse a game and show you what a team did that worked well for them and 'stopped the opposition playing' then a few weeks later analyse a heavy defeat and show the exact same scenarios but this time they got it all so wrong. my opinion is that if they can analyse every game and pick everything that every team does wrong or right then why are they not amongst the worlds best paid managers?
Alex Scot. Is that the Welsh bird on the one show, cos that's another show I won't watch because she can't even pronounce her words properly. I don't mind the calming lilt of a Welsh accent but can't bearing listening to her....awful.
while i do not mind a little bit of an accent i am much the same regarding this point as in all honesty it makes them sound thick (or should that be fik?) and one reason i have never liked to hear the north east accent...it may well be the way we speak but sometimes it makes us sound numb as feck, pretty similar to the brummy drone...i do not want to hear everyone speaking in 'public schoolboy queens english' but at times they need to think about how words come across 'i arsked him bout dat' is surely not too hard to just say it properly...is it?
No Alex Scott is a brain dead cockney with a lisp who presents Football Focus. Alex Jones is on the One show. Alex Scott has resulted in me no longer watching Football Focus after 4 decades.
"I don't mind the calming lilt of a Welsh accent BUT can't bear listening to her". He was referring to Alex Jones. Though as you say Alex Scott has presented the One Show, but she has no trace of a Welsh accent. Sarf Larndarn at a guess innit.
Paul Merson is thick as pigshit. He's conning a living. I just read his column on Man United and it is a ****ing joke. Full of utter sensationalist bullshit. He acts like a big team has never taken a ****ing hammering before. It's absolutely irrational nonsense. The United result was poor of course but the way he talks about it is just a ****ing drama. There's clearly no intelligence there and he has to jump up on his soapbox screaming about end of days apocalypse nonsense. He's utterly stupid.
A few years ago we were playing Peterborough in the 3rd round of the FA cup. It was on ITV and the gremlins were in somewhere which led to there being full crowd noise but no commentary for about twenty minutes or so. It was bloody great, and my lads were saying how much better it was too. Think it was ONeill's first season so around ten years ago. This applies even more to these pundits, most of whom are recently ex players who have learned to speak without swearing for a sentence or two, and have mastered the latest buzz words; " full press" , " false nine" and all the other banal terms used to describe things that often don't need describing. As has already been said, for me it's mostly, telly on just before kick off, kettle on or fridge raided at half time and telly off at full time.
BBC R4 is even worse, it has been turned into a minority soapbox with a continuity announcer who sounds like he is on a die of hot spuds.
