Anyone watch football on ITV?
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I'm off carp fishing....suffice to say I'll be back in time for football tonight, on ITV.
Thank christ the BBC show the world cup final and Sky Sports show the CL final so I have a choice for those 2 at least.
The problem with ITV is that they think the football audience is the same audience of XF or something or they think the audience is a load of mugs who read the s*n rag. So they are disgustingly biased on the English sides and the OTT cliches are never ending. There is no actual analysis just Clive cracking some joke he thinks will make the mouth breathers eating their TV dinner laugh and Andy "Go on Son" Townsend saying some idiotic nonsense.
What's this about? Has Katie Hopkins said something?
I miss Brian Moore, and Brian Clough. Brian Moore eventually went a bit vague, sadly... calling Zidane 'the man from Mexico' in the 1998 World Cup final etc. And greeting every goal with 'it's in there' until Ron Atkinson told him who'd scored it.
But in the 80s and early 90s, Moore was right on it, full of knowledge and authoritative, without being nerdy like Motson.
And he would never have come out with anything as excruciating as 'pancakes with Prosinecki' and 'corn flakes with Crespo' like that painful series of breakfast-related attempted catchphrases Motson inflicted on us at the 2002 World Cup. >:(
Ban soaps to fund more football!
Granada Reports. I'd miss Lucy if she wasn't there. She's like a favourite auntie I've grown up with.
Funnily enough not me... I pick the lesser of two evils if it's Motson v Tyldesley, or even Pearce v Tyldesley... Clive every time.
But the second rank BBC guys - Mowbray, Steve thingee... they're okay. They're preferable to most of what ITV have.
I do have a soft spot for Clive Tyldesley cause I grew up listening to his Everton comms on Radio City, even though I know he's a Man U fan. All those endless FA Cup replays on school nights. So I can't find it in me to slag him off, really.
Townsend's crap though.
Same here.
Unlike others I have some affection for Andy Townsend. For an Englishman he says "wee" a lot.
I like that.
I am easily pleased.
That's cause he's actually a plastic paddy who played international football for Ireland but didn't really want to, but has to keep up the pretense of at least giving recognition to Ireland by saying "wee".
I cannot listen to Adrian Chiles. Why ITV decided to let him present their football coverage is beyond me.
Chiles is cuddly furbee to Keane's Robocop. Surely he deserves a suitcase of dough for not withering under Roy's glare?
In the main I tape live football on the humax to cut out the ads and the half time chat if nothing of consequence has happened in the first half.