| Sam Matterface 01:17 - Dec 5 with 8097 views | dominiciawful |
Truly dreadful. |  |
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| Sam Matterface on 03:05 - Dec 5 with 7718 views | Jimmy86 |
Agreed... Thought it was a bit disrespectful that both he and Lee Dixon started talking about playing France before the game had even reached its conclusion... Talk of arrogance
Matterface was also previously with the lovely Natalie Sawyer, prior to Dougie getting with her.... |  | | |
| Sam Matterface on 08:20 - Dec 5 with 7472 views | tractordownsouth |
Twitter is largely full of morons but there are usually a few sane people on there and I think it’s striking I’ve never seen anybody agree with the decision to replace Tyldsley with Matterface |  |
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| Sam Matterface on 08:34 - Dec 5 with 7423 views | ITFC_Forever |
He's awful. Along with the majority of ITV commentators. |  |
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| Sam Matterface on 08:57 - Dec 5 with 7383 views | Stewart27 |
| Sam Matterface on 08:34 - Dec 5 by ITFC_Forever |
He's awful. Along with the majority of ITV commentators. |
I think most of them are awful nowadays. Remember the BBC have:
Jonathan Pearce
Dion Dublin
Danny Murphy
Robyn Cowan
Martin Keown
Jon Champion
That’s so bad. I used to like Murphy but he’s just morphed into Lawrenson. Robyn Cowan is so flat it sounds like she’s commentating on a game she’s watching in her garage. | | | |
| Sam Matterface on 09:16 - Dec 5 with 7302 views | DinnernotTea |
What annoys me of modern day commentators and Matterface is the worst for this, is that they never know when to shut up. At times relax for 10-20 seconds but he fills "dead air" with such pointless crap. Comes across really smarmy too. | |
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| Sam Matterface on 09:18 - Dec 5 with 7278 views | Marshalls_Mullet |
| Sam Matterface on 03:05 - Dec 5 by Jimmy86 |
Agreed... Thought it was a bit disrespectful that both he and Lee Dixon started talking about playing France before the game had even reached its conclusion... Talk of arrogance
Matterface was also previously with the lovely Natalie Sawyer, prior to Dougie getting with her.... |
Is that first para sarcasm?! |  |
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| Sam Matterface on 09:23 - Dec 5 with 7253 views | nodge_blue |
he feels the need to make some sort of pun every ten minutes.
I did like though Dixons reply of "Im going with there is more than one chip" when Matterface has said something like "not sure they can have a flat ball as there's a chip in it" |  |
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| Sam Matterface on 09:32 - Dec 5 with 7197 views | bluejacko |
| Sam Matterface on 08:20 - Dec 5 by tractordownsouth |
Twitter is largely full of morons but there are usually a few sane people on there and I think it’s striking I’ve never seen anybody agree with the decision to replace Tyldsley with Matterface |
Really,come on Tyldsley was truly awful in the Wales USA game! Has he had a game since if so I’ve had the pleasure of missing it! | | | |
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| Sam Matterface on 09:34 - Dec 5 with 7177 views | Metal_Hacker |
I'd rather have Matterface than the iFollow commentator we have |  |
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| Sam Matterface on 09:38 - Dec 5 with 7151 views | ITFC_Forever |
| Sam Matterface on 08:57 - Dec 5 by Stewart27 |
I think most of them are awful nowadays. Remember the BBC have:
Jonathan Pearce
Dion Dublin
Danny Murphy
Robyn Cowan
Martin Keown
Jon Champion
That’s so bad. I used to like Murphy but he’s just morphed into Lawrenson. Robyn Cowan is so flat it sounds like she’s commentating on a game she’s watching in her garage. |
Dion Dublin is awful as well. | |
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| Sam Matterface on 09:42 - Dec 5 with 7139 views | cbower |
He is. Anyone else fing the sound quality of itv coverage very poor too? Watching both bb and itv through digital HD channels and ITV is muffled at times. |  |
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| Sam Matterface on 09:55 - Dec 5 with 7086 views | LankHenners |
He's dire and has absolutely zero charisma but it makes me laugh when people just rack off commentators/co-commentators that they don't like as it gives the impression they just don't like someone talking over the game!
Most of them are fine, Jenas is poor because he clearly doesn't bother doing any research on stuff like VAR rules so he just starts shouting 'how is this allowed?!' 'why don't we know what's going on?!' etc. and Murphy seems to be trying to be a poor man's Lawro but without the old school style of cynicism which had a certain charm. |  |
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| Sam Matterface on 10:02 - Dec 5 with 7020 views | MedwayTractor |
| Sam Matterface on 09:16 - Dec 5 by DinnernotTea |
What annoys me of modern day commentators and Matterface is the worst for this, is that they never know when to shut up. At times relax for 10-20 seconds but he fills "dead air" with such pointless crap. Comes across really smarmy too. |
With very few exceptions, today's commentators are ignorant of Richie Benaud's maxim: "if you've got nothing to say, say nothing". This goes for any sport and it seems that the producers/directors never bother to listen to the commentators' abilities before letting them loose on us. For most broadcasts, I turn off or reduce to a minimum the sound. Can you get a television with a "no commentary" option? |  |
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| Sam Matterface on 10:31 - Dec 5 with 6895 views | iamatractorboy |
| Sam Matterface on 08:57 - Dec 5 by Stewart27 |
I think most of them are awful nowadays. Remember the BBC have:
Jonathan Pearce
Dion Dublin
Danny Murphy
Robyn Cowan
Martin Keown
Jon Champion
That’s so bad. I used to like Murphy but he’s just morphed into Lawrenson. Robyn Cowan is so flat it sounds like she’s commentating on a game she’s watching in her garage. |
Doesn't John Champion work on ITV? Usually teams up with Ally McCoist and they are brilliant together. | | | |
| Sam Matterface on 10:55 - Dec 5 with 6834 views | Devereuxxx |
He's awful.
He seems to get stuck on the most trivial points. I can remember an England game a few months back where for some reason he just kept on talking about how stylish Dominic Calvert-Lewin is. On numerous occasions. It was really weird.
He also obviously has 'pre-prepped' lines that he whacks out on occasion, which is toe-curling for the listener. |  | | |
| Sam Matterface on 11:04 - Dec 5 with 6792 views | WeZBurnZ |
He is the epitome of all that is bad about itv | | | |
| Sam Matterface on 11:08 - Dec 5 with 6775 views | Vaughan8 |
Him and Dixon make the BBC ones sound good......... | | | |
| Sam Matterface on 11:34 - Dec 5 with 6695 views | stonojnr |
| Sam Matterface on 10:02 - Dec 5 by MedwayTractor |
With very few exceptions, today's commentators are ignorant of Richie Benaud's maxim: "if you've got nothing to say, say nothing". This goes for any sport and it seems that the producers/directors never bother to listen to the commentators' abilities before letting them loose on us. For most broadcasts, I turn off or reduce to a minimum the sound. Can you get a television with a "no commentary" option? |
I dont know that its just that the current era of commentators are ignorant of that maxim, totally, their producers push them to be these constant chatterboxes too.
I remember when Mike Selvey quit/forced out of TMS and he said one of the constant things the producer said to him, which annoyed him, was make every ball sound it was the winning ball, every run the winning run, you had to make drama when there was none and basically go against Benauds advice to say nothing if you had nothing to say, hence the TMS bantz era.
and you see it across all sports now from cricket, to F1, to football even cycling, the constant is theres never any pause, theres always got to be something to say, and unless you're some after dinner speaker/raconteur who can talk about nothing for hours and there are a few of them left in the commentary gig, then you basically pick a few key things as cue cards to say during the comms that you can rely on to fill the gap, and the less experienced ones unfortunately tend to repeat themselves alot, because it almost becomes a Ive got to say this bit just to fill the silence so that people know I have something to say.
so Matterface is arguably a product of his time and the current system, than doing stuff of his own volation.
Ive been trying to listed to 5live instead of tv comms, but Chris Sutton keeps popping up and he's far far worse than Matterface | | | |
| Sam Matterface on 23:38 - Dec 6 with 6352 views | Bucklebury_blue |
One of my favourite bits of commentary was by Barry Davies, who had a habit of just saying a player's name) in the England v Germany 1996 euro semi-final.
'Germany have the ball back.... (Pause for identification)...
'Kuntz' (pronounced Koontz, just to keep the censors happy).
He also said 'There is too much talk from commentators nowadays. Dramatic moments in football speak for themselves.' | | | |
| Sam Matterface on 09:41 - Dec 7 with 6055 views | Darth_Koont |
| Sam Matterface on 23:38 - Dec 6 by Bucklebury_blue |
One of my favourite bits of commentary was by Barry Davies, who had a habit of just saying a player's name) in the England v Germany 1996 euro semi-final.
'Germany have the ball back.... (Pause for identification)...
'Kuntz' (pronounced Koontz, just to keep the censors happy).
He also said 'There is too much talk from commentators nowadays. Dramatic moments in football speak for themselves.' |
Haha! Like it.
My favourite Ipswich commentary was a few years back when Brenner said: “ Now with Skuse* ... who curls one out on the right touch line.”
*Can’t remember the player and probably wasn’t Skuse. |  |
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| Sam Matterface on 09:54 - Dec 7 with 6001 views | Darth_Koont |
| Sam Matterface on 10:31 - Dec 5 by iamatractorboy |
Doesn't John Champion work on ITV? Usually teams up with Ally McCoist and they are brilliant together. |
McCoist is excellent as a co-commentator. Brilliant in Scotland games too where he gets carried away with the emotion and excitement but still never plays to the audience with exaggerated, black and white analysis.
That’s my main issue with a lot of the coverage. I get that colour commentators need to sell a story to some extent. But most games are never that simple. | |
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| Sam Matterface on 11:17 - Dec 7 with 5891 views | hadleighboyblue |
| Sam Matterface on 09:38 - Dec 5 by ITFC_Forever |
Dion Dublin is awful as well. |
Jonathan Pearce is the worst of a poor bunch .
Just won't stop talking , mostly about anything but the actual match | | | |
| Sam Matterface on 11:57 - Dec 7 with 5830 views | farkenhell |
| Sam Matterface on 09:54 - Dec 7 by Darth_Koont |
McCoist is excellent as a co-commentator. Brilliant in Scotland games too where he gets carried away with the emotion and excitement but still never plays to the audience with exaggerated, black and white analysis.
That’s my main issue with a lot of the coverage. I get that colour commentators need to sell a story to some extent. But most games are never that simple. |
Do you think so? I thought that he wet himself about Brazil far too many times the other night during the South Korea game. In fact, I started referring to him as McMoist!
I get that Brazil played well and Richarlison's goal (when he became particularly over-excited) was very well worked, but...
It's all about personal taste I suppose. For me, I prefer Souness's analysis. Always seems well balanced and with a great deal of insight and awareness (even though he was a complete thug when he played!) | | | |
| Sam Matterface on 11:59 - Dec 7 with 5808 views | MedwayTractor |
| Sam Matterface on 11:17 - Dec 7 by hadleighboyblue |
Jonathan Pearce is the worst of a poor bunch .
Just won't stop talking , mostly about anything but the actual match |
The same goes for Miles Harrison on rugby. | |
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| Sam Matterface on 12:03 - Dec 7 with 5787 views | farkenhell |
| Sam Matterface on 11:59 - Dec 7 by MedwayTractor |
The same goes for Miles Harrison on rugby. |
The problem for any rugby commentator nowadays is following in the footsteps of Bill McLaren and Eddie Butler. | | | |
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