Originally Posted by BFGArmy:
“With respect Steve, as much as most of the above is true, I just genuinely was asking why. He hadn't been trending the rest of the evening (and none of the other BT people had) so was wondering if there was any reason/incident behind it. Nothing more/nothing less.
That said if I was hugely fussed I probably could have looked up myself.
I know the point you're marking though. Easier to criticise bigger name pundits.”
Yes, apologies if that came out different than I meant it. The point I was trying to make is that it would probably only take Michael Owen to have split an infinitive or something for someone on Twitter to call him an idiot, and then everyone else just pile on, a bit like whenever Glenn Hoddle's on the telly and everyone tweets about him with Your Da jokes and all that. As far as I can see, Owen was just Owen.
Originally Posted by jazzydrury3:
“Watching Coventry v Sheff Utd last night, I noticed it was George Gavin's Last Outing for Sky after 22 years.
He looked embarrassed when Peter Beagrie gave him a Kiss on the cheek at the end of the Programme.”
Ooh, I totally missed that. A very odd way to go out, probably one of the strangest matches he'd ever done, in a virtually deserted stadium with a pitch invasion. In the bit I did see I was quite pleased Gavin and Beagrie weren't being pious about the pitch invasion, Beagrie did constantly say "Of course, we don't condone it" but both were clearly broadly supportive of the aims of it and were quick to point out how peaceful and orderly it all was. Of course, Gavin has already done more live games this season than about the last three seasons put together.
Originally Posted by digiremote:
“Macclesfield Town v Bromley (12:15pm) - BT Sport 1.
Matt Smith to present from Moss Rose with Kevin Davies and Gareth Seddon. Natalie Quirk reporting.”
Best bit in this one came at the start when Matt was walking across the pitch, almost got hit by a ball and turned in its direction to jokingly remonstrate with them, only for a ball to come in the other direction and knock the microphone out of his hands, breaking it in half and rendering him completely inaudible until someone handed him another one. Very close to another Martin-Keown-on-ESPN moment there.
Originally Posted by bwfcol:
“Kelly Cates is with Clinton Morrison and David Prutton in the studio. It's the first time I've seen it and it seems a massive studio!”
Isn't it just. At the start of the programme it rather illustrated the pointlessness of the walking around business, as Kelly pointed to the results on the big screen and then went to walk to the desk, only to realise she was supposed to do the table as well, so awkwardly stood halfway between the two to do it. Very slick.
Originally Posted by TheSubaru2012:
“Wonder if the drop of the third man is a temporary thing? The EPG info for PL Tonight said Rio Ferdinand was going to appear as a pundit so I wonder if he pulled out of appearing last minute, hence Hoddle moving to pundit and they couldn't get Francis to commentate.”
That's almost certainly what happened - there was certainly no need to remove Hoddle from the commentary box for get him in the studio otherwise as he had no links to either team, so it seems almost certain someone - as you suggest, probably Rio - pulled out at the last minute so they asked Hoddle to be a pundit instead. Pretty sure that'll be the only two man commentary team on a BT Premier League match this season.
Originally Posted by The Difference:
“Football on 5
George Riley and Lynsey Hipgrave presented alongside Chris Iwelumo and Michael Gray”
I only realised when they were plugging the Boxing Day edition that it'll actually be on air when a Championship match is being played and is live on Sky Sports, so their coverage of Newcastle vs Sheffield Wednesday might be very odd. I'm assuming that might require the ever-unpopular pundits-talking-over-the-goals approach. That said, it won't be the first time C5 will have done a highlights show when the thing they're showing highlights of is still happening, they've started test match highlights when the test match has still been going on before.
And on New Year's Eve, it will go up against Match of the Day for a half an hour. Good luck with that.
Originally Posted by jlp95bwfc:
“Why have Sky curtailed Goals on Sunday to show this garbage? I literally couldn't care less what Gary Neville wants to read in a newspaper.”
That seemed pretty bizarre, an almost instant repeat. I'm not entirely sure a Sky pundit appearing on a Sky programme is such big news, to be honest. I can't bear Sunday Supplement either, presumably Sky keep it going to curry favour with the press, and also allow them to air critical comment without jeapordising future rights deals.
The picture of Neville they used in the rolling promo in the build-up to Palace vs Chelsea yesterday was also the least flattering picture of Neville I have ever seen, made him look like Les Dawson.
Originally Posted by
The Scout:
“Not at all. There are only somewhere in the region of a million points about things that have happened during the time that the forum has been unavailable which I've had to keep bottled up. Not the least bit frustrating.
”
Well, imagine how I feel. I don't wish to bore you with my fancy London ways but the other night I was in a pub in Central London and during the course of the evening, a friend and I realised the party next to us was from a well-known football broadcaster, and said party included three of their commentators, enjoying pre-Christmas drinks.
Anyway, one of the commentators was very chatty and friendly (ie, a bit drunk) and at one point struck up conversation with us about his drunk mate, so we couldn't resist the opportunity to say we knew who they were, which led to a long conversation with the commentator, and an introduction to his colleagues, all of whom were very nice indeed. A great moment. If you follow me on Twitter you'll know who they were, I won't namedrop here, but you'll have heard of them. I notice they've all been on air this weekend, bright and breezy as ever.
Clearly I was at such a loose end with the Commentators Thread being down, I actually had to go and seek out commentators. I didn't tell them about this thread, by the way. They'd suffered enough running into a sad fanboy like me.