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Most fatuous footballing comment ever

Posted: Mon Dec 08, 2008 10:34 am
by bobo the clown
We all know that football commentators are apt to want to speak when silence would suffice .... however, surely the best ever example of this came last week on Sky Sports when David Tanner, commentating as the SFA Cup 4th round draw was made said ... as Hib's were drawn out ...

‘The last time Hibernian won the Scottish Cup was in 1902 — the same year Adolf Hitler turned 13.’


What the b-hell was he thinking ? why would that be in his mind ?


Any other good examples welcome.

Posted: Mon Dec 08, 2008 10:45 am
by potter1989bwfc
i just love Andy Grays "goals change games" 1... hes such a genuis :)

Posted: Mon Dec 08, 2008 10:55 am
by Verbal
Motto: 'Say something Mark, say something'

Lawro: 'Can't'

Posted: Mon Dec 08, 2008 11:11 am
by seanworth
Couple years ago during an FA cup game between Bolton and Arsenal.

The last time Bolton won the FA cup was back in 58, when they beat Man U fresh from the Munich Disaster.

Posted: Mon Dec 08, 2008 3:51 pm
by Lord Kangana
Anything either Alan Green or Clive Tyldesley say is unutterable, overblown, overhyped monkey w*nk of the highest order.

Posted: Mon Dec 08, 2008 3:58 pm
by Leyther_Matt
I always find Alan Green quite funny, in a depressing sort of way.

Got to chalk up any post-match Stuart Hall report on Five Live.

Posted: Mon Dec 08, 2008 3:58 pm
by BWFC_Insane
Lord Kangana wrote:Anything either Alan Green or Clive Tyldesley say is unutterable, overblown, overhyped monkey w*nk of the highest order.
You missed the worst culprit. David Pleat.

Posted: Mon Dec 08, 2008 6:19 pm
by Tombwfc
Lord Kangana wrote:Anything either Alan Green or Clive Tyldesley say is unutterable, overblown, overhyped monkey w*nk of the highest order.
I'll never miss out on an excuse to say how much of a pretentious wanker Tyldesley is.

Aided and abetted by Beglin mind.

Posted: Mon Dec 08, 2008 6:59 pm
by SuperWhiteWarrior
‘The last time Hibernian won the Scottish Cup was in 1902 — the same year Adolf Hitler turned 13.’

Very funny :D

Posted: Mon Dec 08, 2008 8:05 pm
by Leyther_Matt
Tombwfc wrote:Aided and abetted by Beglin mind.
I can't believe he still gets a gig, thought his time had passed when Granada stopped doing Soccer Sunday.

Posted: Mon Dec 08, 2008 11:12 pm
by Verbal
Not football but a cracker just then on Newsnight from paxman...

'Here to discuss the VAT cut is Nancy Deolio, a property lawyer who is about to launch her own lingerie model, and a man who doesn't have a financial background but can be described as a salesman himself, the Reverend...'

Posted: Mon Dec 08, 2008 11:41 pm
by communistworkethic
Verbal wrote:Not football but a cracker just then on Newsnight from paxman...

'Here to discuss the VAT cut is Nancy Deolio, a property lawyer who is about to launch her own lingerie model, and a man who doesn't have a financial background but can be described as a salesman himself, the Reverend...'
bbc dumbing down?? noo!!!!!!!!

same theme, obama wins presidential election.....

The time: Wednesday evening.
The place: BBC studio in Washington.
The programme: a Newsnight Special on Obama featuring Baroness Amos and Dizzee Rascal, both on satellite link-ups from London.
The (verbatim) question from Paxman: "Er, Mr Rascal, do you consider yourself British?"
Dizzee Rascal: "'Course I'm British man, you know me. I'm here man. What's good."

Posted: Mon Dec 08, 2008 11:46 pm
by Tombwfc
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/programmes/n ... 713242.stm

Hard hitting high-brow political commentary i'm sure you'll agree.

Posted: Tue Dec 09, 2008 10:56 pm
by William the White
BWFC_Insane wrote:
Lord Kangana wrote:Anything either Alan Green or Clive Tyldesley say is unutterable, overblown, overhyped monkey w*nk of the highest order.
You missed the worst culprit. David Pleat.
Agreed, though I don't think he does overblown etc. He might aspire to that, but falls a long way short.

Anything David Pleat says, even if he's reaching, arthritically, for hype, is delivered in that odd sort of nasal drone, like an aged mosquito on mogadon and gin cocktail.

Is it possible, you wonder to whine so slowly, so pointlessly, so boringly and still be alive and 'working'???

Posted: Tue Dec 09, 2008 11:01 pm
by Lord Kangana
I quite like David Pleat.

Please don't hijack my diatribe against Satan and his little wizard (aka Grenn and Tyldesley) to have a go at such a minor character. :D

Posted: Tue Dec 09, 2008 11:09 pm
by Prufrock
Lord Kangana wrote:I quite like David Pleat.

Please don't hijack my diatribe against Satan and his little wizard (aka Grenn and Tyldesley) to have a go at such a minor character. :D
I dont like Pleat, i find him annoying, ignorant, boring and i'd like to swat him out of existence, but he comes nowhere near the level of hatred of the aforementioned Tyldesley and Green.

Posted: Tue Dec 09, 2008 11:29 pm
by William the White
Prufrock wrote:
Lord Kangana wrote:I quite like David Pleat.

Please don't hijack my diatribe against Satan and his little wizard (aka Grenn and Tyldesley) to have a go at such a minor character. :D
I dont like Pleat, i find him annoying, ignorant, boring and i'd like to swat him out of existence, but he comes nowhere near the level of hatred of the aforementioned Tyldesley and Green.
Right on Tyldesley who is in pleatland central for dismal. Totally wrong, the pair of you, on Green who has well oiled bounce, ego, pomposity, arrogance of a quite unjustified order, and is, in general, engaging, to the extent that you respond to his sometimes odious and sometimes spot on opiniated errrmmmm opinions... The best there is on R5 by a long chalk.

He might make you want to shout at the radio, good. Pleat and the others make you long for a root canal filling.

Posted: Wed Dec 10, 2008 9:51 am
by Verbal
I can't get angry at Pleat's commentary. Gaffe prone, the occassional good point, but he's got to be there for the entertainment factor. When he makes a mess of his lines I try to get angry, but in the end I just want to go up to him, ruffle my hand through his hair and say 'oh you' in a cheeky-scamp-getting-away-with-it manner.

Also loved this last night...

Pleat: Good play by the Brazilian Pereira there...sorry, Argentinian.

Drury: Uruguyan, David.

Pleat: South American.

Posted: Wed Dec 10, 2008 9:53 am
by ratbert
Worst - Green, by a country mile

Best - Graham Taylor

Posted: Wed Dec 10, 2008 10:16 am
by BWFC_Insane
Typical Pleat Commentary...

"I think Cesc is a Wonderful player. So fluid, as superb passer, tremendous ability."

5 minutes later...

"I don't think Fabregas has really stamped his authority on this game. Not sure its the game for such a wonderful player as him"

At which point I want to burst my own ear drums with a cocktail stick!