Sports Presenters That Annoy You

[Captain Haddock]

Of football presenters and pundits here's my picks:

Best:

Tim Vickery (South American footy expert) - excellent knowledge, light and breezy style, good humoured and very sharp...listens to other people before responding. (Check out the BBC's World Football Podcast if interested)

Gabriel Marcotti

Mark Clemitt (the baldy that's started to pop up on The Football League Show, but has been presenting The Coca-Cola Football League Podcast for the BBC for some time now). Great knowledge, seems to know virtually EVERYONE in the game and a man of the people.

Alan Hansen....whatever anyone says the fella still stands up to his would-be equivalents on BBC, except...

Lee Dixon, who is also decent

Danny Kelly on TalkSport 7pm weekdays....fun, informed, varied and 'for-the-people' type.

The BBC presenters on Radio 5 Live weekdays from 7pm....especially Chief Football Correspondent Mike Ingham.....heavyweight football journalism!

Paddy Barclay (newspaper journo) - same as BBC radio team

Gary Stevens, Ray Houghton.

Lineker on MoTD....part of the furniture now, innit!

Jeff Stelling

Mark Bolton / Guillem Balague (Revista de La Liga, SKY SPORTS)




Worst:

(by a country mile)

Andy Gray (always over over-the-top, shallow drivel)

David Pleat (Bleat!)

Mike Parry (national embarrassment....ignorant, stupid, can't pronounce the most basic names)

Ron Twatkinson (clumsy, dated, racist, boring....and a failed manager to my mind)


(plus)


Tim Lovejoy (PL / Chelski obsessed, one-dimensional plastic twathead)

Virtually all of ITV's presenting / punditing staff)

Collymore....used to be good then turned into a clumsy hack allofasudden!

Terry Christian (ex-TalkSport Sat phone-in)....see Lovejoy comments + add pathetic, coarse, over-obvious wind-ups at EVERY opportunity to Leeds, Man City, Liverpool, Arsenal fans....he's the worst football breed of the lot...an actual Manc Man Utd fan....almost every one I've encountered can AT BEST be described as humourless, bad-losing, bad-WINNING, unpleasant, ugly personalities.

 

[Spun Cuppa]

It was quite funny to hear Lee Dixon let out a very un-BBC-like 'Phwooooar' at the mention of Heidi Klum in one of his early appearances as a pundit...

A quiet word in his shell-like was probably administered and he's been well-behaved since

 

[house your seagull]

he's the worst football breed of the lot...an actual Manc Man Utd fan....almost every one I've encountered can AT BEST be described as humourless, bad-losing, bad-WINNING, unpleasant, ugly personalities.

you're spot on!

 

[Austrian Gull]

Pleat....and TalkSport's Mike 'Porky' Parry is world class at that!

True but he can be unintentionally entertaining.

"Bordeaux, as in the tapestry"

 

[Southwick_Seagull]

Peter Beagrie when he does football league games on sky irritates the hell out of me.

 

[GT49er]

Lovejoy.

And even he's not as bad on 606 as he was on Soccer AM.......................

 

[SICKASAGULL]

I dislike presenters in the following order
1. Any femail,we dont require bimbo`s,they are a distraction
2. Andy Gray who continually comments what the player could have done
3. Alan Green on radio,sounds like a demented chipmunk, even when the ball has gone out of play for a throw in.
Whilst we are on radio, Five live has started to introduce music when giving details of matches,at 7 a.m in particular it drives me up the wall, which results in me changing to Talksport even earlier.

 

[vegster]

I know what you're saying, but I have a grudging respect for her, firstly because it's quite obvious that, unlike a lot of other female presenters on TV, she's not got the job because of her looks.

And secondly she does know her stuff- despite her posh, Southern, horsey background, the BBC stuck her into the very working class northern empire of rugby league, and at least she appears to have made the effort to learn about it and appreciate it.

She's the right man for the job when it comes to Rugby League

 

[vegster]

Im suprised no-one has mentoned Steve Claridge. That voice really irritates me. It sounds like he is on heluim!

Claridge has been mentioned earlier and I'm in complete agreement. He comes over as the sort of bloke you would want to punch when in the pub.

 

[Two Professors]

Mark 'I only ever played for 'Pool' squeak squeak Lawrenson squeak squeak,& I stayed on my feet all the time I was saying that.Turnip Tayielereerr,sorry whatwasisnamethatafricanenglishnewboy.David Bleat,brought to you by aliens with domeheads who talk gibberish.Michael 'you are what you eat'gerbilmurderer Robinson-fortunately most of the time he spoke bolox in dago.

 

[Sir Norman Gull]

No one seems to have mentioned Adrian Durham(Talksport)-so far up his own behind always tries to be controversial but comes across as a complete **** and will not listen to anyone's sensible well constructed arguments.

 

[vegster]

No one seems to have mentioned Adrian Durham(Talksport)-so far up his own behind always tries to be controversial but comes across as a complete **** and will not listen to anyone's sensible well constructed arguments.

yes, he is an arse but, he is not actually a commentator.

 

[SirDouglasLoft]

Peter Beagrie when he does football league games on sky irritates the hell out of me.

He has the most boring voice. EVER!!

 

[Jimmy Grimble]

I'm also surprised by the lack of nods towards Steve 'it's fair enough people having opinions but few know more about football than me' Claridge. Prize up-his-own-arse shitstain.

 

[The Large One]

I'm gonna stand up for Claridge here and say that while he doesn't say anything particularly interesting, it's usually because - on The Football League Show at least - he's rarely asked a sensible question, and he's expected know everything about every club.

And he looks like he'd rather be in the pub of a Saturday night, than in Shepherd's Bush looking bored out of his arse.

 

[SirDouglasLoft]

I'm gonna stand up for Claridge here and say that while he doesn't say anything particularly interesting, it's usually because - on The Football League Show at least - he's rarely asked a sensible question, and he's expected know everything about every club.

And he looks like he'd rather be in the pub of a Saturday night, than in Shepherd's Bush looking bored out of his arse.

Well he should do, as he has played for virtually every club in England

 

[GT49er]

Mark 'I only ever played for 'Pool' squeak squeak Lawrenson

Yes, but he's one of our's - did brilliantly for us, and earned us a decent wodge when he (quite justifiably) moved on to somewhere bigger and better (and he was feckin brilliant there too)....

I'm gonna stand up for Claridge

Yeh, me too - he knows what he's talking about more than most, and unlike some of the pundits, he knows what it's like down at our level too.

 

[RM-Taylor]

Both truly awful at Gillete Soccer Special when it's on midweek:

 

[Marc1901]

Alan Hanson , BORING