Football on the TV; pick your 3 favourites

[agricola]

Two of the regular guest pundits on Sky's coverage of Spanish football - Balague is amusing and informative in equal measure, as is Martinez. Stelling is also consistently amusing.

James Richardson's old Gazetta Italia was also superb for much the same reason. Stuart Hall is the best of the radio commentators, though I imagine 90 minutes of him would break the sanity of nearly everyone who listened to it.

 

[SK.]

kamara is quality. was gold.

And of course Jeff Stelling is top notch. Even if just for

Yup that was one of the clips I was thinking of. He just loves Papa Bouba Diop. It reminded me of the Pompey v Reading game (7-4) were he got equally excited as the game went on heh

 

[pagan]

I've had a think about it and I'm quite surprised that Andy Gray is my favourite commentator, followed by Craig Burley. For presenter it has to be Adrian Chiles and for pundit - best of a bad bunch really but Paul Merson makes me laugh while Martin Keown and Lee Dixon talk a lot of sense on FF.

 

[nuffsaid]

Presenter: Adrian Chiles (adds a bit of humour, but its the least important job tbh).
Commentator: Don't like any on TV so going to have to go with Alan Green 5Live, tells it how it is and doesn't pull his punches.
Pundit: Hansen, brutally honest.

That puts me firmly in the beeb camp which is a bit dissappointing but I really haven't been impressed by anything Sky do, apart from the overall presentation, and ITV? don't make me laugh!

 

[tangerinedream]

I wish Alan Green had been strangled at birth.

 

[stavros]

With time at home this week, I taped Channel 5's coverage of Le Championat and the Dutch league the other night. C5 is fairly shitty picture and sound quality where I am on the analogue signal it was recorded from, and the sound cut in and out a lot, but on them the commentators (can't remember names) were on their own in the booths without a pundit alongside them. To be honest, it seemed like they'd been set free a little and could be a little more incisive with the commentary, without having to constantly search for conversation as duos do, a la Motty and Lawro. Can't see it, but I'd like to see that happen a bit more.

I also remember back at the last World Cup, the BBC had this little scheme going where you could watch their TV coverage, but with the 5Live commentary via the red button and I often opted for that.