Originally Posted by The Difference:
“Good post nedski, I can relate to much of what you've written. I've not listened to The Sports Bar regularly for a while now - I used to enjoy listening to the programme while I was working in previous years, but once Ash left to become a presenter on talkRADIO my listening to the Monday to Thursday edition of the show diminished greatly and once Bobby Gould stepped down from the Friday night edition, I've pretty much drifted away from it.
I found both Bobby and Ash very funny and enjoyed their contributions, but Goldstein and Cundy hold much less appeal for me. As you say, when they aren't tackling serious sports news and are just mucking about they can be funny and a relaxing listen, and some of their long form interviews with people from the world of sport (not just football and particularly retired sportsmen and people from boxing and snooker) on quiet sports news nights have been very listenable when I have caught them. But the confected arguments between Andy and Jason and the domination of "top six" Premier League chat in general just really doesn't hold any interest for me, and so with the funny bits with Bobby on Fridays and with Ash having been taken away, I've duly lost interest in the programme and won't tune in unless it's to catch updates on the end of matches that have headed into extra time post 10pm or if they have a particularly interesting guest on in the studio.”
“Good post nedski, I can relate to much of what you've written. I've not listened to The Sports Bar regularly for a while now - I used to enjoy listening to the programme while I was working in previous years, but once Ash left to become a presenter on talkRADIO my listening to the Monday to Thursday edition of the show diminished greatly and once Bobby Gould stepped down from the Friday night edition, I've pretty much drifted away from it.
I found both Bobby and Ash very funny and enjoyed their contributions, but Goldstein and Cundy hold much less appeal for me. As you say, when they aren't tackling serious sports news and are just mucking about they can be funny and a relaxing listen, and some of their long form interviews with people from the world of sport (not just football and particularly retired sportsmen and people from boxing and snooker) on quiet sports news nights have been very listenable when I have caught them. But the confected arguments between Andy and Jason and the domination of "top six" Premier League chat in general just really doesn't hold any interest for me, and so with the funny bits with Bobby on Fridays and with Ash having been taken away, I've duly lost interest in the programme and won't tune in unless it's to catch updates on the end of matches that have headed into extra time post 10pm or if they have a particularly interesting guest on in the studio.”
I do agree about the Sports Bra, the fake arguments or Cundy winding up callers on purpose are so cringeworthy. On the other hand the interviews are usually spot on




