Is Mick McCarthy the worst football commentator ever?

[Col_Buendia]

Pleat's the worst by a country mile. McCarthy knows next to nothing except up and at 'em but he does come up with things like 'the keeper went down like a roll of lino there'.

Well, to be honest if I'd heard him say something as droll as that I might have thought twice about posting the thread, but now it seems the urban consensus is that there aren't *any* decent football commentators...

 

[tangerinedream]

Well, to be honest if I'd heard him say something as droll as that I might have thought twice about posting the thread, but now it seems the urban consensus is that there aren't *any* decent football commentators...

No, two of us have nominated Jimmy Armfield. Do you not read man!!!

 

[chooch]

It will take hell freezing over before he is bested

Aye. A charmless cunt whose every word implies I was better than that.

I caught the second half in which he used the same phrase (I forget which, probably through trauma) literally fifty-odd times and was never invited back.

Heard someone a while back who clearly thought he was a bit fancy and kept saying things like Chelsea have been unable to breach their rearguard, over and over and over and over.

 

[twistedAM]

naw, Lawrenson

 

[souljacker]

Personally, I think every single commentator has been shite this world cup. I can't think of one that has been any good.

My favourite is Steve Claridge on 5 live.

 

[pinched_nerve]

Another vote for David Pleat, he's like Ron Atkinson but worse. His inability to pronounce any name remotely foreign bugs the piss out me.

Whoever mentioned Taylor waxing lyrical about England's tactics when he couldn't get them to a World Cup finals was also spot on.

 

[Wintermute]

Mark Lawrenson: a man whose talent for making the blandest, least consequential and most poorly thought-out comments at the most inappropriate moments is matched only by his readiness to make exactly the opposite point a couple of minutes later. The man's flightier than a balloon full of ducks, and twice as stupid.

 

[tangerinedream]

Personally, I think every single commentator has been shite this world cup. I can't think of one that has been any good.

My favourite is Steve Claridge on 5 live.

I like Claridge too.

 

[tangerinedream]

Commentator = Alan Green/Mike Ingham/John Motson/Jonathan Pearce etc
Summariser = Jimmy Armfield/Mark Lawrenson/David Pleat/Keggy Keegle etc


I am a pedant aren't I

 

[Monkeygrinder's Organ]

Personally, I think every single commentator has been shite this world cup. I can't think of one that has been any good.

My favourite is Steve Claridge on 5 live.

Spot on.

More Claridge!

 

[gnoriac]

McCarthy's drone is brilliant if you've got insomnia.

 

[gnoriac]

He's miles better than anyone on ITV, they're all terrible cunts over there.

Is it just me or do the ITV bunch seem to talk down to their public, like we're not capable of understanding even the simplest thing on the screen?

 

[jasoon]

I like mac varthys dour to the point delivery, and dont mind lawreson, but all ITV commentators are absolute shite, dull, pointless and shite, so I guess thats why I dont mind mac carthy and lawro.

 

[Donna Ferentes]

Isn't the answer actually Peter Beardsley? As I recall, he got one Radio Five game, which I happened to hear, about five years ago. I caught the second half in which he used the same phrase (I forget which, probably through trauma) literally fifty-odd times and was never invited back.

Did anybody else hear the game and can they remind me of the exact phrase?

I have a feeling the phrase was "to be fair".

 

[tangerinedream]

I have a feeling the phrase was "to be fair".

That rings a bell with me.

 

[Flashman]

John "without a doubt" Aldridge is the same.

 

[William of Walworth]

That's exactly what he said .. obviously IMO. It's hard to imagine him not calling him an English cunt. All Corkies say that stuff but it's only banter. I'd be a fuckin tinker from Limerick who rides his own ma possibly. I got told many times to stick things up my bollocks .. it's an old Cork Constitution song. A beautiful fucking song so long as you can hold a note.
Don't fuckin sing it if you sing like a cunt .. ok thanks :|

Can we please have rory doing match commentary or summarising, instead of those other deadbeats??

 

[William of Walworth]

Struggling to think of anyone I actally like, whether commentating or summarising ...

I quite like Jim Beglin, but he's a rarity. I'm sure I heard him on TV with some World Cup match but isn't he normally Radio 5?