Robbie Savage and other analysts

[Pevenseagull]

I'll see your Jason Roberts and raise you a Big (Fat) Ron Atkinson

Damn it, beat me too it.

 

[Machiavelli]

Danny Murphy very good and as stated Shearer has upped his game.

Pullis is a complete moron, good newbie has been Kompany, like him a lot and as a player spot on reading the game.

Agree with this, but Bilic has to be the best newbie, surely.

 

[Saladpack Seagull]

Martin Keown..... does he ever get anything right ?

Yes. Coming to Brighton on loan way back when....!

 

[Easy 10]

Rio Ferdinand's piece in The Times today is an outstanding piece of analysis IMO.

Sadly, I can't be bothered to copy it out.

 

[GoingUp]

Bilic, Ian Wright and Henry have been brilliant IMO.

 

[del strangefish]

Hate Henry. Smug & self centered.
Every sentence starts with I, When I was, I would have...me me me...plus always wrong and copies the other pundits.
Handballing cheat v Ireland.

 

[heathgate]

Bellamy has been ok.. but Savage and Matheaus can do one....

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[Official Old Man]

I watched the Romania v Albania match Sunday night on BBC4 and the panel were Manish Bhasin, Trevor Sinclair & Dion Dublin. Unlike the other panels, they were alive, unscripted and enjoying the game. They probably thought 'no one will be watching us, we can enjoy this and have fun'.

 

[mejonaNO12 aka riskit]

Hate Henry. Smug & self centered.
Every sentence starts with I, When I was, I would have

So your criticism of an ex-footballer acting as a pundit is that he tells you what he would have done when he was a player?

 

[mejonaNO12 aka riskit]

Rio's voice doesn't help but when him and Kompany are simply discussing defending it's quite interesting. Ferdinand does make some good points but it's easy to be lost in the way he delivers them.

I enjoyed Martin Keown the other night, during the Portugal game, when the commentator mentioned the old Ronaldo and Keown piped up with "I tell you what, he was a great player by the way".....as if this was some Bulgarian gem that Europeans never saw much of.

 

[MattBackHome]

I watched the Romania v Albania match Sunday night on BBC4 and the panel were Manish Bhasin, Trevor Sinclair & Dion Dublin. Unlike the other panels, they were alive, unscripted and enjoying the game. They probably thought 'no one will be watching us, we can enjoy this and have fun'.

Sinclair has been good on 5Live I reckon. In fact 5Live has been very good in general.

 

[JCL - the new kid in town]

I find Hoddle particularly insightful as a co-commentator with gems such as

"if that had been on target he could have scored"

 

[GOM]

Rio Ferdinand's piece in The Times today is an outstanding piece of analysis IMO.

Sadly, I can't be bothered to copy it out.

I wonder who wrote it

 

[spring hall convert]

They all hated each other, didn't they? Basically, whatever anyone said, one of the others would say that it was bollocks.

That sounds great. There should be more of that. This soppy ex-professionals club doesn't my head in. The majority of them regurgitate the same bollocks they've heard someone else say, I'd like to see more get called out on it.

 

[Pogue Mahone]

That sounds great. There should be more of that. This soppy ex-professionals club doesn't my head in. The majority of them regurgitate the same bollocks they've heard someone else say, I'd like to see more get called out on it.

Too right. It was absolutely brilliant, especially when Brian Clough was on with Derek Dougan. They seemed to be on the brink of a fight most of the time.

Clough and Revie too, and Clough's complete disdain for anything that Revie might have to say.

And they smoked on set.

Fantastic stuff.

 

[BHA Haywards Heath]

Disregarding all the ones that are rubbish (insert Lawrenson, Savage, Shearer) I like proper tactical analysis in a pundit (Jenas,Kilbane, Nevin) as opposed to the more 'spirit of the team', 'passion', mentality based punditry (Thierry Henry, Ferdinand)

Bit disappointed by the euros punditry so far, though I go to the Guardian Euro Daily podcast for people who actually know what they're talking about.