The Germans have secret weapons available on the bench. Their coach/manager could always throw on Beier, Can if needs must.
Early on today Karen Carney on ITV informed us that later today Germany were playing and if they won would have a good chance of qualifying. Obviously she isn’t employed just for her dulcet tones and perfect enunciation or as a box ticking exercise but for her ability to provide startling insights which would escaped the notice of lesser mortals.
They've looked fairly well organised. Opposition has been poor however. They've not really been given a test.
I was impressed the other night with Enni Aluko telling Lukaku what he should have done to score when he didn’t , I am sure he’s happy to take that on board !
It's widely known within the business that most people absolutely hate working with aluko and it shows TBF when you watch the reaction of most around her in the studios
Careful, the usual lot will be accusing you of a number of things ending in ism. Some people are beyond criticism.
TBF Rio's come out with a couple of absolutely stupid comments recently as well. But none of it comes close to ITV's introduction of a "laws" specialist. It's got to be the most boring introduction to football commentary ever. They make a completely boring subject more boring than you could possibly imagine
Simon Jordan, git, doesn't seem to hold her in much regard. The views expressed in my posts are not necessarily mine.
There are some fantastic female sports commentators and pundits. Intelligent, knowledgeable, erudite and witty, with high degrees of broadcasting skill, they improve the watching and listening of their chosen sports. Women like Isa Guha, Ebony-Rainford Brent, Alison Mitchell, standing on the shoulders of giants such as Donna Symmonds, have demonstrated their superb broadcasting abilities for years, long before it became a 'must have' stipulation for football broadcasting. They broadcast on cricket through merit, not quotas. The main problem, I find, with female football pundits and commentators is that their style is a throwback to the football clichés of yesteryear. They've nothing interesting or worthwhile to say. No style. No charisma. Characterless.
There are plenty of daft male pundits as well. Makes me laugh when they keep putting up the number of caps the female pundits won as though that equates to male ones or gives them some sort of gravitas. Some of them have won as many caps as they have played cup games. There was a Scottish lass on last night who no one would recognise if she was sat 2 feet away who has 152 caps.
And most of them speak estuary English full of glottal stops. Not that the male ones are up to the standards of a Kenneth Wolstenholme or Barry Davies.
Certainly in terms of anchormen and pundits, male or female, it appears to be a race to the bottom. I tend to only unmute as the anthems start. There are still some good commentators, both on radio and TV, but I agree, on the whole they are not up to the standards of the past.
She's definitely a good commentator and comes across very well... Her voice/accent just really grates on me for some reason
