Peter Reid, why?
Having watched Football Focus this lunchtime surley the BBC can afford a more talented, informative, charismatic trio than. Ray Stubbs, Peter Reid and Jamie Redknapp.

I always watch with the sound turned off. The commentators are generally fucking annoying with their inane twaddle and the punditry is shite though BBC better than that trio of tossers on ITV.

Pointless commontary moments: BBC, Portugal v Greece

Barry Davies mentioning Man U winning the Champions' League just cos Colina refereed both games - twat.
There was an item in The Guardian about stupid bets you could put on, one was "how long will it be beforer a commontator says England and Portugal are Europe's oldest allies?" Answer: opening ceremony when Davies whittered on about them sending fortified wine over to England being ne of the oldest treaties in European history - twat.

Pointless commentary moments: BBC, Spain v Russia

It took only 58 mins for Motson to mention that the 4th official was the ref (Kim Milton Nielsen) "who sent Beckham off in St Etiene" - twat.

We get the BBC feed over here and overall the announcers are fantastic. One problem though: they don't seem to realize that the man's name is pronounced rui hor-gay, not rui george. Ah well.
Though that Bloom fellow is doing well with the Spanish player's names.

rui jorge is portuguese innit, not spanish

they pronounce it jorje with a slightly softer than english style j

Yup thats true

Mick McCarthy. Annoying twat with a funny voice who nobody wants to listen to.

I have always said from a very early age that I would like to see football comentators like Frank Skinner or some people like that. Fact is: most comentators are boring.
We need comentators that slag off players if they are playing shite. People who aren't afraid to speak their mind and crack a few jokes at the players expense same way you would if you are in a pub with your mates watching a match. It would make football on the tv a whole new experience and it would be great for the ratings :)

Clive Tyldesley so biassed towards Manchester United, and now Chelsea because they've got money.

I know rui jorge is a portuguese player, but the name "jorge" is, i promise you, pronounced hor-gay (confirmed by a portuguese friend of mine)

Just like Michael Ballack is pronounced Michael Bollock.

Just seen England v France on ITV
Clive Tyldesley and Bobby Robson taking a early lead in the race for the "biggest load of bollocks" award. (It's really not fair having Robson commontate on England matches, poor old soul)

I'm gonna miss Big Ron personally. Shame we're not gonna be treated to any Ronglish, despite what he said...

Handy translation guide:
When an English player does it it's called "commitment"; when a dirty foreigner does it it's called "blatant thuggery"
When an English player does it it's "he was clever there"; when a dirty foreigner does it it's "he went down like he was shot"
More to come as the tourney progresses I'm sure

Bobby Robson = stupid predictable old windbag who has no objective appreciation for the play, just a lot of tossing pro-England twaddle. Total boring cunt! Red fucking card.

42 seconds in to the England - France game the (English) commentator said "this would make a great final" (.)

Ian Wright needs to be shot, innit? an' that.

Green, Ingham and Butcher is where it's at on 5 Live.
If you're daft enough to listen to senile old git Robson and Fergie's ringpiece Tyldesely thats your problem.

I usually turn the sound off, but was watching with mates so had to listen to the Demented Duo ;)

staysinvegas, i have about 20 portuguese guys working for me, it's not hor-gay

Oh yeah, they made at least 2 refrences to the Rugby World Cup and I predict many more.
What has that got to do with football you silly cunts?
Next they'll be on about the rowing.

staysinvegas, i have about 20 portuguese guys working for me, it's not hor-gayOnly one way to settle this: arm wrestle!

It was cruel having Bobby Robson commentate last night, as he is obviously losing his marbles and took ages to form a sentance, which more often than not ended up being about nothing. I cringe the way the ITV commentator spouts all his written down bollocks about war and rugby because it's so unnecessary and just makes them sound silly. There was no surprise from me when he mentioned 'the ref who had sent off Beckham' because thats the sort of bollocks this guy bases his career on.

BBC is much better, Hansen and Lineker rule and with Mr pescimistic in the commentary box you can't beat it. They are let down by Mick 'do you have to speak so fucking loud all the time' McCarthy and Peter 'knows nothing about anything born loser' Reid.

Clive Tyldesley is so fucking pleased with himself. Every comment is delivered as if it were a fantastic insight no-one has ever uttered before.

I prefer the BBC. Des Lynam does my head in, and Terry Venables looks like one of those greasy men you find on the beaches in the Mediterainian, complete with tan and hooge gold chain medallion.

Terry Venebles always sits there with a smug "Well you lot were stoopid enough to employ me" look on his face that merits a good kicking.

And you always expect him to turn around and try to sell you a low mileage secondhand car for "ownlee a mankee". Twat.

He's a bit Frank Butcher, no?

When I watched the commentry on the BBC, I had a strange compulsion to eat bacon and crisps, and start looking for a new house. Cant think why.

I've never been too keen on the ITV commentry. I prefer the BBC way of things.

I see David Pleat's still pretending he knows something about football

that Bloom fellow was doing the Italy-Denmark match today. He was so friggin' one-sided. Every step taken by a danish player was a mark of athletic genius, to hear him describe it.
At one point he praised Zambrotta's work, then when the replay revealed Cannavaro as the man responsible for the block, he says, "and it seems that Fabio Cannavaro had a hand in that as well"
Still, he's better than North American types.

I see David Pleat's still pretending he knows something about football

I've just put old melted face in the "Ugly Bastard Gallery"

Good man.
He's probably in a few photofit galleries the old kerb-crawling name-mispronouncing shit-player-signing know-nothing

I think it's pretty much a given that the Beeb are better than ITV, but then they do their best in the crapness stakes with Crooks (why does he talk in that ridiculous fashion?) and Wright and Davies. My only real problem with Mick is his voice.

Best half-time summeriser is Souness, but you don't see him too often.

Yes the BBC is better than ITV. Their recent set of pundits and commentators is poor though. Mark Bright, come on. Peter Smeichall, isn't to bad but he does get the mickey taken out of him. Where's Martin O'Neil when you need him?

I really hate David Pleat. He talks more shit than a months supply of fertilising manure and his voice is so annoying, id rather sit next to Murphy's builders drilling the road with no ear protection on.

Yeah, O'Neill's good, 'specially when he gets in an argument with Hansen (they've split up Hansen and Lawrenson! Lineker couldn't do that in his playing days)

Schmeichal and Strachan are good, they're both mad as a bag of snakes too.

I see David Pleat's still pretending he knows something about football

It's plain to see why Tottenham almost got relagated last season. With this buffoon in charge it is no surprise they got rid of him out of the club completely. His stupid comments and irritating voice annoy to the point where I consider muting the TV.

Jon Champion is normally pretty good, but I think a bit of the Pleat verbal diarrhoea was rubbing off on him last night.

I know rui jorge is a portuguese player, but the name "jorge" is, i promise you, pronounced hor-gay (confirmed by a portuguese friend of mine)

your Portuguese friend is Spanish. The Portuguese pronounce Jorge as Jorje, not wtih an ay sound at the end of it. Very like George only softer, as the man said earlier.

Tonight (BBC, Holland v Germany) Motson just would not shut up about the England v France game, everything was "this reminds me a bit of the game against France ..."
SHUT UP YOU TWAT!

Bobby Robson - just retire. It's a relief when Tyldsley talks over you, what a sorry state of affairs for such a great servant of the game.

And off-topic -
Is that advert where Tiery Henry's dribbling about some guy's home meant to be reminiscent of the scene in "A Clockwork Orange" where Alex and his droogs smash up the writer's house, or is it just me?

It´s just you.

Lineker did come out with a couple of quite funny (for him) comments before the Holland Vs Germany match,(to Gordon Strachan) 'Holland and Germany genuinely hate eachother,not like Scotland and England,where the little country secretly admires the big country' and 'Ballacks...(short pause)...is one of those players....'.
Well,I suppose you had to be there.

BBC, Portugal v Spain.
I can understand bias when England are playing but is there some kind of weird anti-Portuguese / pro-Spanish agenda at the Beeb? Davies and Lawrenson provided one of the most inept commontaries I have ever heard: constant whinging about it being a "poor game" (SHUT UP YOU TWATS); the Portuguese not trying hard enough (SHUT THE FUCK UP YOU FUCKING TWATS); and Lawrenson had to get in one of his "that was a save for the cameras" (SHUT UP AND FUCK OFF YOU FUCKING FUCKING TWAT, EVEN DAVIES THINKS YOU'RE A TWAT YOU TWAT)

Didn´t hear the commentry myself Greeb, but anybody who discribes that game as being "Poor" must be the victim of cruel medical experiment!..Great football and a deserved win for Portugal.

Just to show how shit Lawrenson is at the start of the second half he said "I can't understand why Portugal have made that substitution" after they had brought on Nuno Gomes who then went to score the winner.
Well that's your answer you fuckwit and the same reason you have never managed a club at any level.

Barry Davies rant about Anders Frisk looking like he had not seen a razor in a week and how refferees should be clean shaved, was quite funny.

Lawro's comment abour Rio Bravo playing more like Juliet Bravo was vaguely amusing.

Well, each to their own ...

Accept it Joe Royle - Erikson got the job and you didn't. Why? Because you're a shit manager.

Is Gordon Strachan wearing a Rug? When the pundits sit on the left it looks like a blatant syrup, or at least the front piece does. However last night they shot them on the right and I began to question my original assumption.

Anyone know if this man is unlucky to enough to be ginger and bald?

If wore had a wig he`d have a better one than that surely?

Because you're a shit manager.

what a complete load of arse

Fair enough Royle's done some decent things in the lower leagues, but the one chance he got at the big time he fluffed it: spends far more than Everton can afford and jumps before he's pushed with them 4 pts above the relegation zone - shit. Then applies for the England job and whines like a big girl when they give it to someone who isn't English - twat.

Joe Royle is the most miserable cunt I ever heard he makes Mark Lawrennson sound like Ainsley Harriot.