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Foot in mouth!

  • 29-09-2002 3:49pm
    #1
    mike65
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    Dunno is you read the Sunday Times, it had a feature today in the sport section Top 10 Bad Irish Commentators which ran as follows-

    1 Frank Staplelton "The maestro of misery"
    2 George Hamilton
    3 Trevor Welch
    4 Ger Canning
    5 Jim Sherwin
    6 Alan Green
    7 Jimmy Greeley (whatever happend too..?)
    8 Brian Cathy
    9 Brendan O' Reilly
    10 Tracy Piggott

    Okay only half are footie peeps but never mind!

    I would have to put Trevor Welch at NO1 (with a bullet)
    and where's Peter Collins, who makes sure ITV F1 has an extra viewer in me?

    Alan Green rules on radio too.

    http://www.dangerhere.com/madness.htm

    Mike.


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  • #2
    DapperGent
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    I would have put George Hamilton at number one if only for those 10 minute diatribes about Ireland brilliance when we're lucky to be 1-0 up.

    What I really question is why Jim Beglin isn't there. He is tremendously annoying the partnership of him and Hamilton is enough to make me turn the sound off.


  • #3
    yop
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    Mike we all know why Alan "scouser" Green rules now don't we??

    Tos**r has to still to admit he is a scouser fan


  • #4
    mike65
    Closed Accounts Posts: 88,972 ✭✭✭✭mike65


    Yop, amazingly I don't post everytime with reference to me being a Red! Well...

    I just think Alan Green is a great enthusiast
    and works on the radio well. Also Green is allowed to have a fans loyality, just so long as it is'nt blind.

    No room for Man Utd followers then...;)

    Mike.


  • #5
    Waylander
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    No room for Jim Beglin or Jimmy McGee, that cant be right.


  • #6
    Bateman
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    As far as commentators go, Hamilton has to be the worst, his joy when Jummy Quinn scored for the 6 counties team against us in 93 was disgusting, and even more so was the manner in which he acted the same when we scored.

    The whole of RTE, from Hamilton, Beglin, and O Herlihy suffer from one thing. They commentate and suimmarise with more pro-English bias than the BBC or ITV do. This is a fact. People complain about ITV being completelty biased towards English teams. Well they are an English station, aren't they? But its the lack of impartiality from RTE that used to get me. TV3 aren't quite as bad, but Kevin Moran's blind love for United can be bilous at times.


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  • #7
    Pigman
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    Originally posted by Bateman
    As far as commentators go, Hamilton has to be the worst, his joy when Jummy Quinn scored for the 6 counties team against us in 93 was disgusting, and even more so was the manner in which he acted the same when we scored.
    He acted the same? How do you mean? That he was joyful when we scored too, or that he remained neutral to the McLoughlin goal? To be honest I was too busy cheering to notice what he was saying at the time.


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