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Ian Darke 10/10! Used to love him back in his Sky days with football and boxing and now does all the major England tournaments for US broadcasters.
This year the PL production feed has often given the global audience the joys of Tony Jones who I think is an old school Anglia reporter and pretty sure he’s Norwich based? To be fair seems to keep it fairly unbiased. It’s funny because he’s on a lot of those ITFC retro clips as well.
John Champion and Clive Tyldseley (sp) I’ve never really liked that much for some reason.
Martin Tyler still gets some PL world feed production stuff and with the loss of some HOF commentators over the recent years must be one of the longest serving now?
I was wondering if Barry Davis was still alive and then the crowd panned to him at our game against Palace!
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Commentators you’ve liked and never really liked? on 15:49 - May 11 with 1888 views
Motty of course was the GOAT. Jonathan Pearce used to annoy the hell out of me when he started out commentating on European games on C5. But these days, I think he's calmed down a bit and he's a decent commentator. Jamie Carragher, just fook off. Ditto Alan Shearer. I used to like Gary Neville's visual match analysis when he first joined Sky but he's stopped doing that and now just seems happy to play sidekick to Roy Keane's rantathons.
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Commentators you’ve liked and never really liked? on 16:29 - May 11 by iamatractorboy
Butler's brilliant commentary of Maradona vs England (although where he got 40 yards from I've no idea... more like 60!
Peter Jones, Butler, Edelston. The absolute best. A soundtrack of my yooof.
TV wise, David Coleman was good too, but I have to say the late great Brian Moore takes some beating. My brother in law got to chat with him in later years (church) and always said what a lovely bloke he was. Loved talking football!
Gerry Harrison? A bit cr@p but he did the Anglia games on a Sunday.
Motson: I know he wrote in the programme etc but he annoyed me. No idea why.
Green on Radio 5: I don’t care about your opinion, commentate on the ffing game!!
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Commentators you’ve liked and never really liked? on 17:23 - May 11 with 1515 views
Barry Davies and John Motson were the big players back in the day. I always felt Davies had a bit of resentment for Motson's perceived status as number one. In saying that, Davies had more range with other sports, whereas Motty was pure football.
Peter Drury was fine when he used to appear on some random channel with some top level commentary (think Roma comeback against Barcelona a few years ago).
Now you hear him every week on Sky Sports trying so hard when a goal is scored that it’s beyond boring and embarrassing now.
Commentators you’ve liked and never really liked? on 16:25 - May 11 by burnbudgiesburn
My favourite commentators were radio, having grown up late 70's/early 80's when the only 'live' football was on Radio 2
Nothing remotely gets close to Peter Jones & Bryon Butler
Some Ipswich related Peter Jones commentary from 2:10 here
In the late 70s and early 80s, would listen to Peter Jones and Bryon Butler for the Ipswich commentary midweek European games.
Sports report - or whatever it was called - would start at 8.02 on radio 2 (before radio 5) straight after the news headlines.
They would have been playing 17 minutes and so you were hoping for a highlight commentary straight away - when they would play any goals scored upto then.
The other thing was you had a 50:50 chance of Ipswich being the main commentary match (or Liverpool mainly) which meant the second half live with goal flashes from the other games.
All the Europeans games were played on a Wednesday night, European Cup, Cup Winners and Uefa Cup. Only 5 or 6 teams from England entered so as the tournaments progressed, the numbers whittled down.
Jones and Butler were both brilliant commentators - maybe a bit of nostalgia - but for me will always be fondly remembered.
Commentators you’ve liked and never really liked? on 18:36 - May 11 by bluelagos
In the late 70s and early 80s, would listen to Peter Jones and Bryon Butler for the Ipswich commentary midweek European games.
Sports report - or whatever it was called - would start at 8.02 on radio 2 (before radio 5) straight after the news headlines.
They would have been playing 17 minutes and so you were hoping for a highlight commentary straight away - when they would play any goals scored upto then.
The other thing was you had a 50:50 chance of Ipswich being the main commentary match (or Liverpool mainly) which meant the second half live with goal flashes from the other games.
All the Europeans games were played on a Wednesday night, European Cup, Cup Winners and Uefa Cup. Only 5 or 6 teams from England entered so as the tournaments progressed, the numbers whittled down.
Jones and Butler were both brilliant commentators - maybe a bit of nostalgia - but for me will always be fondly remembered.
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Commentators you’ve liked and never really liked? on 18:56 - May 11 with 1260 views
Commentators you’ve liked and never really liked? on 15:49 - May 11 by You_Bloo_Right
Barry Davis, for me one of if not the greatest sports commentators of all time, is very much alive.
Agreed, vastly superior to the dreaded Motson, who kept trotting out meaningless statistics, digging out his pre-rehearsed one-liners & shouted "whoah!" whenever anyone scored, often without any idea which player had actually scored the goal.
Commentators you’ve liked and never really liked? on 18:56 - May 11 by Radlett_blue
Agreed, vastly superior to the dreaded Motson, who kept trotting out meaningless statistics, digging out his pre-rehearsed one-liners & shouted "whoah!" whenever anyone scored, often without any idea which player had actually scored the goal.
Motson was a weird one, he seemed to become a parody of himself the older he got.
Early 80's he was a top commentator.
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Commentators you’ve liked and never really liked? on 19:27 - May 11 with 1199 views
Commentators you’ve liked and never really liked? on 17:23 - May 11 by gainsboroughblue
Barry Davies and John Motson were the big players back in the day. I always felt Davies had a bit of resentment for Motson's perceived status as number one. In saying that, Davies had more range with other sports, whereas Motty was pure football.
Motson was a football obsessive - I think it was his only topic of conversation - and he was devastated when Davies got the World Cup Final in 1994. It was such a terrible game that maybe he was relieved afterwards?
Commentators you’ve liked and never really liked? on 17:18 - May 11 by Churchman
Peter Jones, Butler, Edelston. The absolute best. A soundtrack of my yooof.
TV wise, David Coleman was good too, but I have to say the late great Brian Moore takes some beating. My brother in law got to chat with him in later years (church) and always said what a lovely bloke he was. Loved talking football!
Gerry Harrison? A bit cr@p but he did the Anglia games on a Sunday.
Motson: I know he wrote in the programme etc but he annoyed me. No idea why.
Green on Radio 5: I don’t care about your opinion, commentate on the ffing game!!
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I thought Coleman was a very professional front man & presenter - he really did his homework - and an excellent athletics commentator (he was a good amateur athlete, close to international standard & you could see he had genuine knowledge & passion for the sport). However, when it came to football, I thought he came over as aloof & arrogant.
Barry (Lovely Goal)Davies, Martin Tyler and Motty I remember fondly. Finding old Football highlights shows on YouTube I especially enjoy Hugh Johns commentary who seemed to cover Midland games. Not a fan of the current premier league ones especially Peter(RASMUS HOJLUND)Drury whose name he shouts as though it’s a certain goal but it never is!but quite enjoy listening to Gary Weaver who does Champ games. The old radio 2 football commentators were a brilliant listen painting a picture without leaving dead air
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