Originally Posted by Mark.:
“5 January 2010 so almost exactly 7 years ago.
Prior to that, he did a handful of PL games for Setanta.”
Crocker did more than a handful of PL games for Setanta, he did loads of them. I think he was contracted to do half of their Premier League games a season. I won't bang on again about the balls-up he made of Spurs' 125th anniversary celebrations.
Originally Posted by BFGArmy:
“As ever a bit much with FNF.
The first edition in particular was ridiculously overdone - 90 minutes of build-up, 2 presenters, 4 pundits, the commentary team, Shreeves and Chris Kamara. For a pretty bog standard MU home game.”
Indeed, most of which has now gone for a burton. You can hardly argue last night's was different because it was Christmas, it was the first one they've done for exactlly three months, so it'd be easy enough to get everyone on it if it's that infrequent. So I'm pretty sure Kamara has been dropped from it, given his role was completely pointless. Apart from the casual clothing and the dual presentation it now seems pretty indistinguishable from any other match on the channel, to be honest.
As for the value of Rachel Riley (who'll you note was on two channels at once as she was on Catsdown as well), you could just as equally argue that she could do it on her own, I don't think Jeff is all that special on it either. I see Sky Sports News offered us "highlights" of In Off The Bar this morning, including the comedian Iain Sterling doing a keepie-up challenge. News, there.
The new Radio Times is out and it tells us that Steve Wilson is doing Spurs vs Villa in the FA Cup, alongside Danny Murphy. We know Guy Mowbray is at West Ham.