Motty vs the rest

Motty has been appearing on Talksport a few times and I never realised he was so knowledgeable as a pundit, it puts others to shame and makes me wonder why we put up with the likes of Merson, Savage, Keown to name but a few. There was even a failed manager/ex player of Arsenal slagging off their new manager after one game the other day, you couldn't really make it up.

Is the punditry in the country as good as it could be and who are the ones you really rate or on the flip side dislike?

 

It just highlights how utterly wretched most of those nit wits are. Merely by being competent can an individual look like a sage.
Mr IBB tells me Savage and his mother have their own programme now,it beggars belief!

 

It's easy to provide an answer with Savage. He's a contrarian, and his views get noticed, largely because people like to disagree with him. People listen because they find him annoying and controversial, not in spite of that. And frankly, it makes for more entertaining radio than listening to someone like Gabriele Marcotti, armed with all of his stats and his foreign pronunciations.

 

Strange to relate, Savage was a MUCH better footballer than he is a pundit.

 

You say that but i had to switch off radio 5 live for the weeks of the world cup as i couldn't bear to hear his voice when his special world cup show came ran at 8.30 am every day. He's just a very thick guy who loves the sound of his own voice and his long shiny hair. Obnoxious little **** !

 

And he was a pretty average footballer.

 

Mods:
Please remove my misplaced apostrophe in post 2,it beggars belief!

 

People dont want Motson's fact based punditry/commentary style anymore do they? Seems to me that people prefer a more 'lad's down the pub' banter style.
Which is a shame.

 

Someone must like listening to him, though. The BBC wouldn't keep him on, let alone give him new shows, if listening figures were poor.

 

I dislike most pundits to be honest. Special mentions to Merson, Lawrenson and Hoddle. I find Clive Tyldesley very irritating too. Motty is streets ahead of the rest.

 

I believe that was the point.

I myself find Savage to be more tolerable than most. Alan Green is the one i cant stomach. Utd Utd Utd Fergie, yawn. Hawksby and Jacobs clips of the week is fun, mostly as they try to work out how pissed Alan Brazil was last monday.

 

I think you’ve got to remember that things like talk sport and Soccer Saturday are the TV and radio equivalent of the Sun, which is supposedly written for 7 year olds, It’s lowest common denominator ****.

It’s a bit like the Apprentice, they could easily pick 10 genuinely clever people every year who would ace all the tasks, but (to their audience) it wouldn’t be as entertaining.

Having a pratt like Merson talking drivel and mispronouncing players names all afternoon is far more entertaining to a large cross section of their audience than a genuinely well informed pundit.

 

You could live in Canada and get to watch the TSN studio. As for British stuff I like Gary Neville, and I find Gordon Strachan amusing and very knowledgeable. As for Merson Lawrenson and that big nosed scouse **** I wonder how they get to stay and make a living out of it.


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It could be worse. You could still have Keys and Gray on your TVs.

 

I can’t remember if they did it last season or not, but I don’t think having a muffled sounding Jamie Caragher constantly cutting in and talking over Gary Neville and Martin Ryler during the City Arsenal game really worked at all.

 

I'm glad he's not commentating live on the matches anymore because he was WELL past his sell by date.

 

He's also a bit of a toad.
At a previous club he came to an event,I can't remember what it was. He spent the entire evening chasing after one of the lady players and drinking vast quantities of red wine.
I named the player 'Motty Totty'.
She was utterly filthy so he had odd taste too!

 

Watched the Brighton game in a bar in Spain. Keys and Gray were doing a goals round up afterwards. The exchange went:

Keys: “Watford entertained Brighton today at Vicarage Road....or whatever it’s called these days”
Gray: “it’s probably got a fancy name now”
Keys: “We’ll just call it Vicarage Road”

Useless *****!

 

Any easy way to identify rubbish commentators is to check whether they used to play for Liverpool.

Liverpool fans and ex-players dominate the football analysis arena, due to their dominance half a century ago. It is a well trodden path for ex-Liverpool players to be promoted far beyond their abilities through these contacts.

 

I hate to say it but for most men that quality in a woman is a huge plus.

Unless you mean she was literally covered in grime.

 

I used to know the result of all Cup Finals going back to before WW2, but now I couldn’t tell you any winners for certain since about 1995. That speaks volumes about the decline of the FA Cup.

 

Wigan ? Or Hull KR ?

 

Can't stand Jonathan Pearce. The guy just shouts all the time and at a really grating pitch.

 

It was in both senses.
She had some sort of relationship with a married committee member who was greedy,creepy and had the personality of a small pebble and they were his most redeeming features!
His most memorable utterances were when we were trying to appoint a welfare officer and I mentioned tennis had the second worst record,behind swimming he said 'let's try and get top spot then'. He also suggested that committee members should have all the club's allocation of Wimbledon tickets as 'there has to be a benefit for doing this ****'. Great guy!
Her cleanliness was also not the best and she often appeared as if dragged through a hedge backwards. She never listened and because of this meetings went on twice as long.
Odd club,very odd.
Motty still drinks near Hemel/Redbourn I believe?

 

sounds like he could be 99% of the posters on this forum...

 

You mean he's Moog ?

 

He lives in Little Gaddesden.

 

Beggar's.

 

Dependent on the upholstery, grime could be an even bigger plus.

 

Or your short term memory.

1995 seems like yesterday to me.