Austrian Gull
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After the Mark Bright discussion, it's time for you to choose the worst football pundit employed by our national broadcaster
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Who is the worst BBC pundit?
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Pavilionaire
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- Jul 7, 2003
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Garth Crooks
- Jan 3, 2012
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Garth Crooks - arrogant and opinionated and often, it seems to me, wrong.
Hove Seagull
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Steve Claridge. May be totally irrational, but I really can't abide the man.
brakespear
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Exactly - IMO Andy Townsend is so terrible that his awfulness bleeds across to the BBC and makes him the worst pundit there also. That seems to be out of scope for this thread though so Crooks ahead of Shearer by a nose.
yxee
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I'm pretty sure a simple flow diagram is a better way of analysing tactics than Alan Hansen
watch a 60 second clip leading to the goal
1. is there a big gap between the defence and midfield? put a yellow box there and waffle for 2 minutes
2. did the full-backs play the striker onside? put a graphic showing where they should have pushed forward to
3. did the referee make a mistake? BINGO, 5 minutes airtime.
Alan shearer is the same but 1 swapped with 3
watch a 60 second clip leading to the goal
1. is there a big gap between the defence and midfield? put a yellow box there and waffle for 2 minutes
2. did the full-backs play the striker onside? put a graphic showing where they should have pushed forward to
3. did the referee make a mistake? BINGO, 5 minutes airtime.
Alan shearer is the same but 1 swapped with 3
Thunder Bolt
Silly old bat
Nothing irrational about it.
Tom Bombadil
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I like Steve Claridge. Where would we be every week without his desperate search through the crib sheet as he tries in vain to work out who the hell is the manager of Barnsley is before Manish moves on to highlights from the goalless draw at Pride Park.
Grombleton
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- Dec 31, 2011
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Crooks is a fool - happy to argue his point but never seems to get the 'right' answer. Beattie makes me laugh- it seems like he has a complete lack of knowledge of the footballing world, so tries to gloss over it with a generic statement, or avoids the question altogether.
Leroy can stay, on the account that he's generally quite complimentary about us.
Personally, no-one can get close to Alan Green. I know he's not a pundit, but he's deplorable.
Leroy can stay, on the account that he's generally quite complimentary about us.
Personally, no-one can get close to Alan Green. I know he's not a pundit, but he's deplorable.
Albumen
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It might just have to be Mark Bright. Not because of the palace connection but because he has no right to judge other plays incapabilities and NEVER praises anything, just shouts and moans in a horrible voice. Then there's his striped shirts. And the fact he probably drugged Michelle Gayle for 12 years until she came to and escaped the idiot.
Yep, just shades it over Lawrensen, Shearer and Crooks.
Yep, just shades it over Lawrensen, Shearer and Crooks.
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Like the descriptions.
Hove Seagull
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I know someone who used to work with him on 606, and she said exactly this about him.
turienzo's lovechild
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- Oct 25, 2003
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during the olympics i became so aware of just how poor football pundits are....basically every other sport has real experts who present their opinions in a way that shows that they're knowledgeable and respectful. This shows that it can't be a BBC thing, but a football thing
rugby and cricket also has top punditry (although cricket is on sky) full of top range experts who clearly do their research and have insightful opinions
why is our national game so bereft of top level experts? Football pundits are either thick idiots or dull as anything....often both
rugby and cricket also has top punditry (although cricket is on sky) full of top range experts who clearly do their research and have insightful opinions
why is our national game so bereft of top level experts? Football pundits are either thick idiots or dull as anything....often both
Gullflyinghigh
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- Apr 23, 2012
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Garth Crooks by an obscene distance.
He's more argumentative and arrogant than any other pundit I can think of, obsessed with getting the last word in, even when he's been soundly beaten (usually muttering something like 'it's just my opinion' after loudly belittling someone else's for 5 minutes) and just generally comes across as a bit of an arse.
Now, if we can include presenters as well then it'd be close run between him and Adrian Chiles (so bad that he's the worst regardless of channel) the miserable, snidy potato headed tit.
*Deep breath*
He's more argumentative and arrogant than any other pundit I can think of, obsessed with getting the last word in, even when he's been soundly beaten (usually muttering something like 'it's just my opinion' after loudly belittling someone else's for 5 minutes) and just generally comes across as a bit of an arse.
Now, if we can include presenters as well then it'd be close run between him and Adrian Chiles (so bad that he's the worst regardless of channel) the miserable, snidy potato headed tit.
*Deep breath*
Bright followed by Claridge.