Best pundit?

Daxter · Post by **Daxter** » Sun Dec 03, 2006 7:27 pm

Who do you reckon is the best pundit?

I reckon Andy Gray and Jamie Redknapp are very good.

Luna · Post by **Luna** » Sun Dec 03, 2006 8:38 pm

Lawrenson, obviously.

Village Idiot · Post by **Village Idiot** » Sun Dec 03, 2006 10:53 pm

José María Maldonado.

Sorry, wrong country (he's GREAT, though).

Bruce Rioja · Post by **Bruce Rioja** » Sun Dec 03, 2006 11:03 pm

Village Idiot wrote:José María Maldonado.

Sorry, wrong country (he's GREAT, though).

Don't you lot have Michael Robinson commentating for you over there, VI ?

cowdrill · Post by **cowdrill** » Sun Dec 03, 2006 11:04 pm

omg what a BORING thread!

Batman · Post by **Batman** » Sun Dec 03, 2006 11:06 pm

They are all crap these days.

Village Idiot · Post by **Village Idiot** » Sun Dec 03, 2006 11:10 pm

Bruce Rioja wrote:
Village Idiot wrote:José María Maldonado.

Sorry, wrong country (he's GREAT, though).
Don't you lot have Michael Robinson commentating for you over there, VI ?

Yes we have, and he was *very* popular 6-7 years ago. He partners José María Maldonado often. Robinson usually plays the funny entertainer part while Maldonado is the footballing brain.

There was once a challenge were people would phone the station and ask Maldini (Maldonado) who wore any given squad number of any given major top flight league in western Europe (England, France, Spain, Germany, Italy). He nailed them all but one (and later it was discovered that the caller's source had it wrong!)

Bruce Rioja · Post by **Bruce Rioja** » Sun Dec 03, 2006 11:12 pm

cowdrill wrote:omg what a BORING thread!

But is it, Cowdrill? I can't think of a more patronising nice person on earth than Andy Gray. "Ooh, did ya see thaaaat? He gits oop at the baaaack stick, he nods it doooown, and ye haaave to say that ya dooon't save thoooose". Really, Andy? Great stuff. What insight. I'd never have known what was going on if it weren't for you.

blurred · Post by **blurred** » Sun Dec 03, 2006 11:29 pm

None of them. It's incredibly rare that any of them have any actual insight into what's going on on a football field, or tell me something that I either didn't know or that aids my understanding of the game.

cowdrill · Post by **cowdrill** » Sun Dec 03, 2006 11:32 pm

Bruce Rioja wrote:
cowdrill wrote:omg what a BORING thread!

But is it, Cowdrill? I can't think of a more patronising tw*t on earth than Andy Gray. "Ooh, did ya see thaaaat? He gits oop at the baaaack stick, he nods it doooown, and ye haaave to say that ya dooon't save thoooose". Really, Andy? Great stuff. What insight. I'd never have known what was going on if it weren't for you.

i was only joking cos dax called me boring! the little monkey spanker!

luckily i dont have sky so i never have to listen to andy gray

but im informed by my mate that he is a total cockhead

Enzo Gambaro · Post by **Enzo Gambaro** » Tue Dec 05, 2006 12:07 am

Don't know who the best is. But I know the worst is undoubtedly Steve Claridge. Amazingly unprofessional (eg. turning up 30 minutes late for a UEFA Cup game on Channel 5 last season) and biased not only towards the clubs he played for but against clubs he has had some kind of agenda with during his overlong career. Talks absolute sh*t without a hint of irony.

Oh, and I failed to mention the fact that he hates us.

cowdrill · Post by **cowdrill** » Tue Dec 05, 2006 12:33 am

thats so true

officer_dibble · Post by **officer_dibble** » Tue Dec 05, 2006 1:18 pm

I quite like Kamara. Gets excited about anything that guy. Although I appreciate he rubs plenty of people up the wrong way...

Why do BBC pundits discuss the game as if we are all like 14 year old girls as well?

David Lee's Hair · Post by **David Lee's Hair** » Tue Dec 05, 2006 1:23 pm

Elton Welsby anyone?

thebish · Post by **thebish** » Tue Dec 05, 2006 1:28 pm

I must be getting on... I find myself increasingly impressed by Graham Taylor..

Little Green Man · Post by **Little Green Man** » Tue Dec 05, 2006 1:35 pm

Has to be Andy Walker.

He's now co-presenter on Scotsport. Poor sod has to share the duties with John Leslie's brother though.

Zulus Thousand of em · Post by **Zulus Thousand of em** » Tue Dec 05, 2006 1:56 pm

Alan Smith anyone? To hear him on Sky last night trotting out all the stereotypes about Watford's "in-your-face" "long ball" game as opposed to City's "exquisite" (I kid you not) approach play was cringeworthy to say the least.

When Citeh started lumping it up the park in the last half hour Watford had "forced them to play at their level" apart from on one occasion when the massive's dodgy scouser leathered the shit out a ball over the Watford back four. That was "incisive and direct".

Oh, and if you did watch it what did you reckon to Hamman? Utter shite, imho.

Enzo Gambaro · Post by **Enzo Gambaro** » Tue Dec 05, 2006 2:01 pm

Hamann was indeed truly woeful. Looks like he's completely lost interest in the game. The tough-tackling and incisive passing has all vanished. Still, it must be tiring picking up those huge wages at the end of the week.

warthog · Post by **warthog** » Tue Dec 05, 2006 2:15 pm

Zulus! Thousand of 'em! wrote:Oh, and if you did watch it what did you reckon to Hamman? Utter shite, imho.

Yeah! We got the better deal keeping Campo. Oh, bugger.

TANGODANCER · Post by **TANGODANCER** » Tue Dec 05, 2006 3:22 pm

Biggest problem with almost all pundits is that they are all really fence-sitting, band-waggon-jumping hypocrites. They are the first to put the boot into teams like Bolton, then praise them when they start to achieve something with expressions like "I've always admired Bolton" etc etc. Lawrenson is the pack leader on this, with people like Jim Beglin and Pat Nevin not far behind. Waste of good oxygen.

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