Paul Merson

[GoingUp]

]Even Motty called March "Ollie March" at the weekend on MOTD.[/B] Poor show. I'm good friends with one of the BBC Radio Humberside sports commentators and he actually puts a lot of time into researching the two teams playing in a game he's covering. Unfortunately I don't think many others share his professional pride.

Yeah I noticed that, he had just called him Solly before hand though hadnt he? So I guess its just an easy slip of the tongue on his part, rather then poor research.

Its pretty hard for any pundit to know everything about every club and their players and academy players etc, but they should be able to pronounce first team players name! but we see every week Merson pretty much struggles to pronounce anything that isnt Steve or Gary Smith lol

 

[Marshy]

Yeah I noticed that, he had just called him Solly before hand though hadnt he? So I guess its just an easy slip of the tongue on his part, rather then poor research.

Its pretty hard for any pundit to know everything about every club and their players and academy players etc, but they should be able to pronounce first team players name! but we see every week Merson pretty much struggles to pronounce anything that isnt Steve or Gary Smith lol

Its because he was up against Ollie Burke... simple slip of the tongue from Motty.

 

[BBassic]

Yeah I noticed that, he had just called him Solly before hand though hadnt he? So I guess its just an easy slip of the tongue on his part, rather then poor research.

Its pretty hard for any pundit to know everything about every club and their players and academy players etc, but they should be able to pronounce first team players name! but we see every week Merson pretty much struggles to pronounce anything that isnt Steve or Gary Smith lol

It isn't hard for Merson because he doesn't even bother. He's presumably quite well paid for his particular brand of bullshit so you'd hope he'd find a bit of time during his week to do some research before opening that useless void he calls a mouth.

 

[Ernest]

Merson, it has to be said, is a class apart when it comes to pundits. He really is an absolute moronic imbecile.

He is an ignorant embarrassment

 

[Papa Lazarou]

He is an ignorant embarrassment

A presumably highly paid ignorant embarrassment.

 

[kevo]

A presumably highly paid ignorant embarrassment.

If only we could all be well paid for being ignorant embarrassments

 

[lawros left foot]

A presumably highly paid ignorant embarrassment.

And various bookies,brewerys, and coke dealers, are jolly glad he is.

 

[LlcoolJ]

A presumably highly paid ignorant embarrassment.

It's like Arry in management. Gets away with being useless because he's a "character" and has loads of mates "in the game". Merson's greatest input to Soccer Saturday seems to be shouting "he's hit the beans!" before mumbling an incorrect pronunciation of the player's name.

 

[Paris]

It's like Arry in management. Gets away with being useless because he's a "character" and has loads of mates "in the game". Merson's greatest input to Soccer Saturday seems to be shouting "he's hit the beans!" before mumbling an incorrect pronunciation of the player's name.

Don't forget Desmond

 

[Leekbrookgull]

I particularly enjoyed Shearer and Wright desperately trying to find something to talk about regarding Brighton.

Anyway, the fundamental reason there are bad pundits is that their ex-pro arrogance prohibits them from doing any research because they "know the game"

Thought Shearer and his management skills were found out at Newcastle ?

 

[martin tyler]

It's all looking up
Merson has us down for a defeat but only 2-1 and he has us down to score.

 

[Skaville]

He loves a punt. Let's hope he keeps betting against us and keeps losing

 

[Wardy's twin]

Its good hear from all these hard working well paid commentators and pundits, spending loads of time on research and then refer variously to Tomer Hemed as , Tamer Hemed or Tomer Hamad and of course our left winger Solomon March. Its not an issue as I prefer, as im sure CH does, to fly under the radar, the pundits appear to believe that we are going down and thats just fine, we'll prove them wrong.

As for the coverage on MOTD and the Sky programme with Kamara, the highlights made it look as though WBA were in the game in the first half when my recollection was that we were pretty dominant.

PS I thought that WBA looked like a Championship side.

If Barry's shot had gone in then it would have been a different game with them holding on to a 1-0 lead....our dominance was possession and some long shots then came the magic moments and to be fair we probably should have hammered them 5-0

 

[S'hampton Seagull]

You can just imagine his thought process. "Brighton have scored now so I'll put them down as getting one, but I still don't know who any of their players are so they will obviously lose. Muff have been in the Premier league for a couple of years so will beat anyone who hasn't".

He might get this one right of course!

 

[Tricky Dicky]

I love Soccer Saturday (is it still called that ?), and as I don't go to games, I am generally watching it. I kinda agree that Merson can be annoying in some ways, but if you didn't have someone to liven the proceedings up somewhat - if there were 4 Matt Le Tissiers t - then it would be rather more dull. I vote to keep him on the panel, at least we get to laugh at his pronunciation of the names of some of our overseas visitors (and some home grown ones)

 

[Seagull73]

I love Soccer Saturday (is it still called that ?), and as I don't go to games, I am generally watching it. I kinda agree that Merson can be annoying in some ways, but if you didn't have someone to liven the proceedings up somewhat - if there were 4 Matt Le Tissiers t - then it would be rather more dull. I vote to keep him on the panel, at least we get to laugh at his pronunciation of the names of some of our overseas visitors (and some home grown ones)

I do agree with this, but it also irritating that, when giving his post-match summary on Saturday (assuming that's what it was amongst the cockney drivel) - he was just about to start slating CH about Knockaert not being in the team at the start of the season, until Stelling advised him that he'd been injured....

THAT is how little research Merson actually does - that is why nobody should give a rats arse about his opinion.

 

[SeagullDubai]

Isnt he married to Mrs Merson

 

[Dolph Ins]

Interesting piece from football whispers

http://www.footballwhispers.com/blog/brightons-moneyball-window

When we signed Duffy I really couldn't understand it. We had 3 excellent centre backs. But I would say the Dunk Duffy partnership was 1 of the top 5 reasons we got promoted last season, and this season they look like they can cope admirably, so big money saved on a prem centre back. Maybe there is something in this moneyballs guff.

 

[Weststander]

Watching SSN's 'Soccer Saturday'.

Never the brightest, but at times Merse is struggling to get his words out. It shouldn't be too hard, as he doesn't know too many.

 

[Is it PotG?]

2 correct thus far.......