The Garth Crooks art of unctuous interviewing, No 548

[London Irish]

Crooks: "The first goal, Steven, what wonderful technique".

Gerrard: "Ehhhh...like, it was a bit of a miss-hit actually."

 

[Knightsworld]

Is that why they got Lineker to interview Beckham?

Garth Crooks soon to be seen on The Shopping Channel.

 

[Waterhall Wizard]

He has to go a long way to beat Millard the Badger.

Millard: That first goal was a bit of a fluke wasn't it Danny?

Cullip: It doesn't matter how they go in, but you know all about that don't you Tony?

 

[Eddie the Seagull]

Garth Crooks - the shittest interviewer EVER!!

What a knobstick

 

[GUNTER]

Crooks: "The first goal, Steven, what wonderful technique".

Gerrard: "Ehhhh...like, it was a bit of a miss-hit actually."

I couldn't beleive it when he said that. What an idiot.

 

[king Wombat]

he is appallingly bad.

as soon as appears on the telly I have to switch off/over/ run screaming from the room..

 

[Digweeds Trousers]

What really fucks me off with Crook is his attempt at pseudo-intellectual lines of questioning - his dramatic pauses to try to con the viewer and the player that he has thought hard about these questions and they will be so different from anything ever heard before.

He is a fuckstick.

To be made to look stupid by someone like Gerrard who clearly has the mental capacity of a sherbeert dip shows him up for what he is - aen empty-headed knobpop.

 

[Scoffers]

What really fucks me off with Crook is his attempt at pseudo-intellectual lines of questioning - his dramatic pauses to try to con the viewer and the player that he has thought hard about these questions and they will be so different from anything ever heard before.

He is a fuckstick.

To be made to look stupid by someone like Gerrard who clearly has the mental capacity of a sherbeert dip shows him up for what he is - aen empty-headed knobpop.

Surely the above posting should win the 'Posting of the month' competition (if we had one that is)

 

[Tooting Gull]

The BBC is full of very clever people. They know a good interviewer - presumably. Garth Crooks is a very bad interviewer, and has somehow been doing it for a very long time.

You have to ask - why. And logically one of the only conclusions you reach is that there is some form of positive discrimination going on that has nothing to do with ability. There, I've said it...

I'm open to other conclusions.

 

[nwgull]

I very nearly got interviewed by Crooks whilst running the London Marathon 4 years ago, it was at around mile 20-21 so I was fairly knackered but I still managed to put a bit of a spurt on to avoid him.

 

[Curious Orange]

My flatmate and I burst out laughing when Crooks asked that question. Quality entertainment!

 

[The Large One]

In his defence, it does beat the utter shite you get from Sky interviewers.

Now I don't know if Sky did interview Gerard, but the line of questioning is almost always something like 'Steven, how important was that first goal?' or 'how important was it that England scored tonight?' SAKE.

Actually, it's ALWAYS 'Sven/Sir Alec/Arsene/Shozay, how <insert banal noun> was it that <insert banal action> this afternoon?' AAARRRGGH! FFS, ask a proper question, ask them about the state of the pitch, ask them about soya bean diets, ask them about prison reform, ask them about lampost designs, but DO NOT f***ing ask them 'Frank, how vital was it that you won, got the three points and stayed 11 points clear at the top of the Premiership, exclusively covered by Sky...?'

 

[colinpants]

[No message]

 

[The Large One]

SPEAK UP. Stop whispering.

 

[Tom Hark Preston Park]

Practically the only thing more toe-curlingly embarrassing than a Garth Crooks interview with an English footballing hero a.k.a a trashy lottery winning millionaire is... a London Irish thesis on the deep-thought game of chess plotted by 'tactical genius' Mark McGhee against, say, the truly madly deeply equally intellectual game plan of Dennis Wise.

The sooner all concerned realise it's a simple game of kick'n'rush played out between two sets of simpletons incapable of following all but the very simplest set of instructions, the sooner some people will stop embarrassing themselves by reading more into the game than was ever there to start with.

Existential innit?

 

[Easy 10]

Amen to that.

(and I STILL don't think Virgo should play in midfield)

 

[Chesney Christ]

Practically the only thing more toe-curlingly embarrassing than a Garth Crooks interview with an English footballing hero a.k.a a trashy lottery winning millionaire is... a London Irish thesis on the deep-thought game of chess plotted by 'tactical genius' Mark McGhee against, say, the truly madly deeply equally intellectual game plan of Dennis Wise.

The sooner all concerned realise it's a simple game of kick'n'rush played out between two sets of simpletons incapable of following all but the very simplest set of instructions, the sooner some people will stop embarrassing themselves by reading more into the game than was ever there to start with.

Existential innit?

Oi!

Football's brilliant, don't knock it.

 

[Waterhall Wizard]

Practically the only thing more toe-curlingly embarrassing than a Garth Crooks interview with an English footballing hero a.k.a a trashy lottery winning millionaire is... a London Irish thesis on the deep-thought game of chess plotted by 'tactical genius' Mark McGhee against, say, the truly madly deeply equally intellectual game plan of Dennis Wise.

The sooner all concerned realise it's a simple game of kick'n'rush played out between two sets of simpletons incapable of following all but the very simplest set of instructions, the sooner some people will stop embarrassing themselves by reading more into the game than was ever there to start with.

Existential innit?

Leave it out THPP. My missus has been saying for years that football is a load of burkes kicking a ball about! What chance have I got when a so-called follower of the game f***ing agrees with her?

 

[Tom Hark Preston Park]

Oi!

Football's brilliant, don't knock it.

Oi! Never said it WASN'T brilliant. It's the most brilliant game there is & the nearest thing we got to a global language. But that's cos it's simple. Get the ball in the net - goal. Ball goes out of play - throw it in again. Ball hits a player's hand (match officials notwithstanding) - handball. Any other sport you care to think about don't even come CLOSE. That's why we're LOVIN' it. And it's why the smart people refuse to intellectualise it.

 

[Tom Hark Preston Park]

Leave it out THPP. My missus has been saying for years that football is a load of burkes kicking a ball about! What chance have I got when a so-called follower of the game f***ing agrees with her?

What THPP said in his reply to Chesney Christ