[video=youtube;pgsHQTk9wms]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pgsHQTk9wms[/video] Mark Bright at his best.
I don't think that is the case now, but I do think that he was the 'token' black man when the BBC first employed him. They certainly didn't employ him for his journalistic nouse. He is a fairly articulate bloke, but his grating style and total lack of credible punditry is laughable at best and a waste of licence payers money at worst.
Why does race come into it? It's a case of who you know ... like virtually every job in the media. How else could Robbie Savage a worse pundit then he was footballer), Alan Hansen (boring beyond belief), Alan Shearer (more boring than Hansen), Phil Thompson (Doh!), Paul Merson (who can only speak like he's copying Dick Van Dyke) etc all have regular media work. Race has nothing to do with it
There is something forgiveable about Crooks' ineptitude, probably down to the fact he is infinitely more articulate than any other former player, even if most of it is utter nonsense. Lawrenson for me is the worst by a country mile, he looks like the sort of chap you'd see sitting alone in the corner of a murky pub, oggling at average looking ladies across the bar. Comes across as a very miserably human being.
A lot of criticism, and no suggestions of pundits which people think are actually quite good. The implication being that all pundits are bad, which says more about people's views on pundits than the quality of any of these guys. The reason being for this, obviously, is that as soon as someone says "This guy is quite good", they'll reveal their taste in pundits to be as mindlessly subjective and incompetent as they accuse the pundits themselves of being.
Souness is a great pundit. I also like Terry Venables brand of bollox........... you have to remember , their job is not just to comment on the play , how boring would that be. It is an entertainment business, the key word there is entertainment.
If you want entertainment, then Ian Wright is the best pundit out there. As much as I hated him as a player, Gary Neville has become one of the best pundits there is. The likes of Lawro and Hansen are just tired old has beens, full of cliches and boring assumptions. Even Linekar, who was quite refreshing when he first started with MOTD has been infected with their morose brand of cynicism. The BBC needs a complete shake up at MOTD.
who is the tw@t that tells you the last 47 years of each players family history every time they get the ball. ? Like a walking stat encyclopedia. I could strangle the tw@t .
