merseyman wrote: BoBo Vieri wrote:I don't know who;s worse, Tyldesley or Drury. Drury's cliches get so tiring, while Tyldlsey starts acting like an arrogant twat when English teams are doing well, and he's changed his mind about 5 times during the year as to who the best player in the world is. Sounded like he was about to climax when Rooney scored his second last week aswell!
Italy breeds 'em: Beppe Dossena, Fulvio Collovati, Gianni Cerquetti... take your pick. Bruno Pizzul, the great grandaddy of biased Italian commentators, was pensioned off a couple of years ago, but he was a pastmaster of "piloting" a game. No matter what your eyes were seeing, he'd tell you how it really was
Actually, I've been living here for 23 years and there's been no sign of improvement (if anything, they get worse!), so I'm now convinced it's a gene thing. If anyone ever praises foreign football, or criticises the domestic game, they don't last long
Maurizio Pistocchi was certainly one of the more acute observers of the game, with an excellent knowledge of international football. But he didn't cream himself over the likes of Totti, and he also blotted his copybook last year when Barcellona beat Udinese in the CL by describing it as a footballing lesson, etc., to the extent that the Udinese manager complained on TV! I haven't seen Pistocchi since, though he might be working for a private network.
We used to crease up laughing at the comments of Giacomo Bulgarelli and Flavio (?) Colombo on TMC in the mid-80s: "This no. 7 for Brazil looks useful... do you think he's good enough for Serie A, Bulgarelli?". "No, I don't think he's quite ready yet, Colombo". Give us a break!
I was amazed when I first came out here to hear commentators using the first person plural when following matches. "Corner for our lads!"... "If we can press them in their third of the field, then we're home and dry!". I suppose the attitude is: "Why bother to pretend we're impartial when we obviously aren't?". But it becomes a trifle tedious when they're repeatedly saying: "That was a foul on Pirlo, but unfortunately the referee didn't see it".
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