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  1. lamby

    lamby Needs a cold shower

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    Who do you like or love to hate. Watching ITV yesterday I found myself wishing Jamie Carragher would just belt up. Quite like Strachan though. On BBC Hansen and Lawrenson are loking tired. Harry looks like he's half asleep.

    Any pundits make your blood boil?
     
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    Adrian Chiles, i know he's not a pundit, but does my head in.
     
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  3. lamby

    lamby Needs a cold shower

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    Agreed Andover I didn't include him as a pundit but he also drives me nut's.
     
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    fran-MLs little camera Well-Known Member

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    Adrian Chiles has no authority when talking about football....a male bimbo (without at least being pleasant to look at).
     
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    Hansen is horrendous, his most recent shocker was that he's "not convinced" on Zlatan. 490 games, 234 goals, 93 assists and has one the league in 9 of his last 11 seasons, with every team (except Barca) built around him. Not a thorough enough resume apparently. Not like Walcott with his dazzling 6 Premier League starts, he's the bomb!
     
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    Struggled to understand Carrager yesterday more than Viera. Also the whole ITV set up just seems to be inferior to BBC at the moment.
     
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    jamie carragher was a brilliant pundit spoke his mind didnt just agree with the others and actually spoke quite a lot of sense
     
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    I think there are far too many pundits around these days. A generation ago you had Bob Wilson on Football Focus, Jimmy Hill on Match of the Day, Saint and Greavsie with 'On the Ball' and Brian Moore on the Big Match.

    They didn't rely on a studio full of has-beens who know best giving the TV audience their useless opinions.
     
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  9. lamby

    lamby Needs a cold shower

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    It was his voice that drove me mad rather than what he was saying.
     
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    St. Luigi Scrosoppi Well-Known Member

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    I can see for myself so why should I need someone to tell me what to think.

    When they are on I go and make a cup of tea or top up my whisky tumbler.

    I have also decided to enrol at evening classes in September but at the moment I can't find any centres offering courses in how to understand thick Scouse and Scots accents. No wonder that poor lad Delgado stuggled to understand Wee Gordon. I do as well.
     
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    fran-MLs little camera Well-Known Member

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    On Sky, Gary Neville has proven himself to be an intelligent and unbiased analyzer, but they've had to do without him as he is on England duty. Gary obviously understands the game having played it at the highest level.
     
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  12. lamby

    lamby Needs a cold shower

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    Thought you might be going for French classes to impress Mrs Godders and whisper french sweet nothings in her ear!
     
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    I didn't think Carragher was that bad, or at all hard to understand. Compared with other comedy pundits like Ian Wright and Jamie Redknapp he acquitted himself fairly well. Vieira is very good, though noticeably biased towards praising Man City players.

    Never thought I'd say it but I think I rate some of the ITV pundits above their BBC counterparts, and ITV have made a better effort to set up a studio in Warsaw, though I understand the beeb's argument that it's not good value for the licence fee to go out there this early.

    Although I would happily not see any more of Redknapp, I did think that Lineker did a great job quizzing him about the England job. Seedorf is a class act as usual. Shame there's no Leonardo, I love that guy!
     
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    Jake Humphrey is clueless.
     
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    I prefer the BBC simply because they do not have adverts. Having said that it does mean you spend less time listening to Adrian Chiles which can't be a bad thing. I agree that the BBC line-up is showing its age. Shearer is the worst though. How did he ever get the job? No personality whatsoever.
     
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    The only 2 that I consistently like are Lee Dixon and Martin Keown. Well, 3 actually because as much as I want to dislike him, Steve Claridge does some proper analysis not just soundbites.
     
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    TheSecondStain Needs an early night

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    Agree entirely. There is far too much punditry.
     
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    That's 'cos he's a Formula 1 presenter.
     
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    He did the saints v pompey game....and he was clueless, he kept saying were saints top by luck..
     
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    This.

    My favourite Adrian Chiles quote was when he was talking about the Brazilian Ronaldo as he had just retired, and he said something like "So Gareth, can you explain to the younger viewers at home just how good Ronaldo was, because they won't remember and will just see him now as being fat and useless"

    As if that **** has the cheek to call anybody fat and useless! Especially one of the best ever players. Pretty much summed himself up in one sentence
     
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