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worst football pundit

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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 662 ✭✭✭JæKæ


    DesF wrote: »
    Or it could be current Ireland Women's manager Noel King, he used to be on TV3, but I can't find a picture of him.

    That's him, he's cat.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,725 ✭✭✭ibh


    Mikeyt086 wrote: »
    CallMeJimmy you beat me to it! HOW HAS NOBODY SAID KENNY CUNNINGHAM???

    His eyebrow movements... They give children nightmares. His Dublin/Birmingham accent is disturbing.

    I had actually posted Kenny C. Was too fcuking lazy to write Cunningham. But yes, both his accent and his eyebrows are disturbing.

    Just remembered that douchebag Adrian Childs on MOTD2. I know he's a presenter rather than a pundit. But he is fcuking hopeless. He's a daytime TV presenter ffs..! Spends more time talking about funny irrelevant things that happen over the weekend instead of actually discussing football.

    Oh and when ITV had the PL highlights, Andy Townsend and Robbie Earle were both sh!te as well.
    Only redeeming feature was that they had Big Ron for a while!


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 41,926 ✭✭✭✭_blank_


    ibh wrote: »
    But yes, both his accent and his eyebrows are disturbing.
    Someone from Dundalk having a pop and another person's accent?

    By christ.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 41,077 ✭✭✭✭Xavi6


    DesF wrote: »
    Someone from Dundalk having a pop and another person's accent?

    By christ.

    ROFL!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,725 ✭✭✭ibh


    DesF wrote: »
    Someone from Dundalk having a pop and another person's accent?

    By christ.

    I'm pretty sure an accent with a trace of Brum in it takes precedent over any other accent. Even from Dundalk!!

    Plus, i spent a lot of time up North so i've got a hybrid accent. Good or bad?? Who knows..


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,906 ✭✭✭DeadSkin


    Don't think anyone has mentioned him but, just watchin' MOTD 2 there and f*ck me, Tony Adams is one long drawn out boring sh!te.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,322 ✭✭✭Mad_Max


    Mweelrea wrote: »
    Jamie Redknapp for stating the obvious all the time

    Alan shearer is the worst for this!!!!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,954 ✭✭✭✭thebaz


    ray houghton -- regarding the BBC, the quality of match commentating is worse now than RTE -- that woman commentator is cat , and their top gun JP , is probably worse :eek:


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 6,315 ✭✭✭Jazzy


    Archimedes wrote: »
    Ian Wright

    f**kin definately. dislike him more then dunphy


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 5,103 ✭✭✭estebancambias


    Steve Claridge.

    I hate this guy. I had a fight with him around the World Cup 2006. I rang the show, and I said that England don't have any 'smart' players in midfield. I also said Hargreaves was the best midfielder they had, and that Sven was doing the best with what he's got.

    Peter Beagrie could 'understand where I was coming from'.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 33,779 ✭✭✭✭Princess Consuela Bananahammock


    Anyone remember Paddy "Mr Neutral" Crerand?

    Everything I don't like is either woke or fascist - possibly both - pick one.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,165 ✭✭✭Stky10


    Jim Beglin. For any chance, if a goal results its because of bad defending, if the chance is missed its because of a poor attempt by the attacker. Never anything positive to say.

    Of course there are the other old favourites of Alan "Creosote" Shearer, Garth "Token" Crooks, Graeme "Monotone" LeSaux. Oh and Gazza on ITV during the world cup for being completely out of his depth.

    BTW.. After watching MOTD2 tonight, has Tony Adams suffered brain damage or something?. You could nearly see the cogs in his brain having to work overtime just to get a sentence out.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 3,163 ✭✭✭Slash/ED


    Definitely Andy Gray. The others may be crap and stupid, but at least they attempt balance and neutrality and aren't essentially a marketing executive with a microphone.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,369 ✭✭✭UnitedIrishman


    Gareth Crooks wins by a long distance. He's hopeless. After England qualified for the second round of the WC he walked up to Sven and announced "I can confirm that England have qualified for the next round". At which point Sven stared blankly at him.

    Shearer is useless aswell. Hansen another fool and very fond of seeing players head the ball. Dixon is an arrogant little fella. So none of the BBC lads are worth much.

    The best IMO are Gullit, Gray (who can be irritating quite a bit of the time but he talks sense) and although he might not be a pundit so to speak Chris Kamara if only for the comedy factor.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 41,077 ✭✭✭✭Xavi6


    Trevor f*cking Francis. It was bad enough watching City the other night without this absolute waster giving his completely biased opinion on every decision that went against Birmingham, no matter how bloody obvious it was. Worst thing is he was brought in to be neutral as he played for both clubs.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,097 ✭✭✭✭Tusky


    Not a pundit but I cant stand Ray 'hingsight' Houghton.

    "What he should have done there.." x100000000 every game.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,442 ✭✭✭✭jesus_thats_gre


    Literally every ex Irish player...


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 500 ✭✭✭zuchum


    tony adams seemed pretty drunk on motd 2 tonight,so ill go with him...


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 495 ✭✭tetsujin1979


    zuchum wrote: »
    tony adams seemed pretty drunk on motd 2 tonight,so ill go with him...
    I'd go along with that, he was woeful. I was hoping for some tactical insight from a current coach, and all we got was some mumblings about "well we tried to mark Cahill, but it didn't work"
    Best part of the show was Adrian Chiles trying to get some inside info out of him for the West Brom - Pompey semi final next weekend!


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 41,926 ✭✭✭✭_blank_


    Stky10 wrote: »
    BTW.. After watching MOTD2 tonight, has Tony Adams suffered brain damage or something?. You could nearly see the cogs in his brain having to work overtime just to get a sentence out.
    zuchum wrote: »
    tony adams seemed pretty drunk on motd 2 tonight,so ill go with him...
    Actually, Adams was on Sky on Grand Slam Sunday last weekend, and I said the same to the lads.

    He was definitely on something, imo.

    Seemed pissed as a brewers fart.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,418 ✭✭✭JimiTime


    Steve Claridge.

    Absoluteley 5 million percent on the button with this! Lived in London for a few years and Channel 5 showed some of the Irish games which Claridge was on. He's a muppet, who talks cr@p with a really, really annoying smugness!! Ahhhh, now I can finally move on:)

    John Barnes was on Channel 5 also, he was dire!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 481 ✭✭walshki


    One specific bout gives me the shivers. When Liverpool played Barca in the Nou Camp last year ITV had Andy Towsend and Ally McCoist set up with a pedestal near one of the corner flags before the match. It was nearly a matter of who could produce the best banality with Townsend starting with the likes of 'The team that plays best will probably win' and McCoist countering with classics like 'Messi's a great player'. No tactical analysis presented at all over a full half hour.

    To be fair I don't think that many pundits give much insight into games anymore, raising a point where you think 'Yeah thats a good point' etc. Therefore all you can look for, most of the time, is some entertainment value and RTE are probably the best for that in general. Even thought they're both twats at least Gray and Redknapps spat on Grand Slam Sunday was entertaining.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,925 ✭✭✭aidan24326


    Reading through this thread makes me wonder are there any GOOD pundits out there? So much boring and banal sh1te that passes as 'analysis'.

    Sky presenters dare say anything negative lest they criticise their own cash cow i.e the premier league. On BBC they just kiss ass incessantly and ITV are even worse. For all the nonsense that comes out of Dunphy (and to be fair he does make some good points from time to time) at least RTE is entertaining compared to the rest. Though Giles is out of touch and has no knowledge of the modern game outside of the obvious. He'll be doing a champions league game involving some European team and won't even know anything about them. Reaching his sell by date imo.


  • Posts: 8,092 ✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    DeadSkin wrote: »
    Pat Dolan, he's a ravin' lunatic.


    +25000


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,604 ✭✭✭herbieflowers


    the post-match analysis for Barca-Celtic was hilarious alright


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,312 ✭✭✭Limerick Dude


    Lawro and Houghton, oh how i hate those two.

    Giles and Dunphy arent great either but there entertainment really!

    For good pundits id have to say Liam Brady, talks ALOT of sense, unfortunatly i didnt see mon as a pundit at the world cup!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 15,399 ✭✭✭✭Thanx 4 The Fish


    Dunphy. Should have kept his word and packed it in years ago.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 6,478 ✭✭✭Bubs101


    Definitly Kerr. The other bad pundits have some entertainment value (step forward Jamie "everybody's amazing" Redknapp) but Kerr is so boring.

    As for the good ones, the fat bloke off Setanta has grown on me


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,906 ✭✭✭DeadSkin


    Bubs101 wrote: »
    As for the good ones, the fat bloke off Setanta has grown on me

    :eek: Pat Dolan? The only thing that's grown there is his crazy hair[if it's real :eek:]


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 5,103 ✭✭✭estebancambias


    Dolan is great just far too cynical.


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