Originally Posted by The Difference:
“I don't have any strong feelings either way about Radio 5 Live's use of their three person commentary system, but what I really am at a loss to understand is their decision to use Robbie Savage as summariser whenever they have broadcast commentary on Aston Villa, at least on non-Saturday games, this season.
It's not so much that Savage is a former Birmingham City player who was renown for his involvement in his fair share of dust ups in Second City derbies, but last season he really drew the ire of Villa fans when he made his cocky and ultimately wrong prediction that they were relegation certainties. So for Radio 5 Live to continually call upon him as summariser on Villa games strikes me as being a case of shooting yourself in the foot big style - they are rendering their coverage unlistenable to Villa supporters and even neutrals like me, who would have considered tuning in to their coverage on Monday had they used a more neutral co-commentator but find Savage to be a massive turn-off.
Given his spells at both clubs, Savage would have been a much more appropriate choice to co-commentate on Radio 5 Live's live commentary on Leicester City v Derby County in the Championship on Friday night...oh wait.”
“I don't have any strong feelings either way about Radio 5 Live's use of their three person commentary system, but what I really am at a loss to understand is their decision to use Robbie Savage as summariser whenever they have broadcast commentary on Aston Villa, at least on non-Saturday games, this season.
It's not so much that Savage is a former Birmingham City player who was renown for his involvement in his fair share of dust ups in Second City derbies, but last season he really drew the ire of Villa fans when he made his cocky and ultimately wrong prediction that they were relegation certainties. So for Radio 5 Live to continually call upon him as summariser on Villa games strikes me as being a case of shooting yourself in the foot big style - they are rendering their coverage unlistenable to Villa supporters and even neutrals like me, who would have considered tuning in to their coverage on Monday had they used a more neutral co-commentator but find Savage to be a massive turn-off.
Given his spells at both clubs, Savage would have been a much more appropriate choice to co-commentate on Radio 5 Live's live commentary on Leicester City v Derby County in the Championship on Friday night...oh wait.”
I don't see the issue, Savage's prediction last season of them going down wasn't too far off and I've heard him be positive about Villa on numerous occassions on 606. I understand that you don't like him which if fine but I can't see many Villa fans switching off because he is the pundit because he said they'd go down.



