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Best/Worst Sports Commentators/Summarisers

Liverpoolphil said:
Doing a great job at the moment - just said Kuchar is taking a 9 iron on a 225 yard par 3 when he has a hybrid in his hands ! She is shocking
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Is that the one that pitched about a foot from the pin and rolled through the back? I wondered why that 9 iron didn’t stop, now I know. :rolleyes:
 
Hobbit said:
From cricket - Atherton. ZZZZZzzzzzzz.
Football - Jamie Carragher. Translator required.
Golf - Monty. Talks too much when players are playing their shots. Let the picture tell the story.

After that, no one really gripes me.

The good; where have all the really good ones gone. TMS has a decent team but no stand outs. Football likewise. Golf has McGinley when he does the odd stint. Dougherty isn't bad. Dare I say I like Roe. Rugby seem to have gone from 3 good ones to all of them being average.
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Carragher needing a translator? Thats his posh voice Bri, with added "H"'s, where non are needed.:D
 
larmen said:
A professional presenter with genuine interest in the sport is mostly a lot better than someone who has done it in the past and is now trying to cash in on his/her sporting success.

I really don’t like listening to Paula Radcliffe, Rebecca Adlington, ... . Saying that, Michael Johnson is really good and I also like Colin Jackson which a lot of people dislike.

While I can’t watch a game show with Vernon Key I really like his American Football stuff.

And Lawro is just a grumpy man like on goggle box. Just paid way more than those other guys.
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Spot on. The ignorant assumption that an ex-player will make a good pundit / commentator is far too prevalent these days. Commentary / punditry is a craft in itself.
 
Michael Vaughan and Geoff Boycott most definitely in the worst list. Both airhorns.

Boycott comes out with the same old guff every time and within a couple of sentences he's prattling on about himself.

Vaughan is an attention seeker seemingly constantly trying to be popular who seemed to change once he had been on Strictly.
 
I don't even consider Boycott an analyst. He's a total nob who just second-guesses every decision so he can use hindsight to say he was right. A friend of mine worked with him on TMS for a couple of years and reported back that everybody involved in the broadcast truly despises him. It's just the BBC Sport management who keep him on because he is so polarising. Yeah 99% of people hate him and want him gone.
 
Football is a tough one as there are so many minutes of it. I actually very rarely watch any analysis any more. I pretty much just tune in at kick off time. I've seen enough football that I can make my own mind up.

I used to love watching Andy Gray on Monday Night Football. The analysis and tactics screen etc. was very well done and he was definitely a pioneer in this area. However, completely correct that he's no longer working with Sky.

The other one I would give credit to is Gordon Strachan. He's done a few International Tournaments over the years and would always have interesting things to say. Would go out of his way to make an interesting point and was often paired with Adrian Chiles who would actually ask decent questions (given his journalism day job).

As for golf, I like a lot of the Sky guys;
Euan Murray, Beemer, McGinley, Butch, Dougherty are all great.
Absolutely love the on course stuff from Riley, Coltart and now Henni. This really aids my enjoyment of a tournament getting the view of an ex-pro on the ground about what type of shot someone can play.

Roe is dreadful. I can live with Rob Lee and Boxhall - but Roe is horrendous. Commentating last night as if every single person wanted Fowler to win.
Would almost prefer to just get the American feed, compared with having Roe on my tele every Sunday night from now on.
 
Thought Fred Trueman was dire, Boycott not much better. May be a tad bias as I come from the better side of The Pennines!

Graham le Saul was eloquent from what I saw and surprised he was not on TV more.
 
Painfully watched last bits of Curran & Anderson 'fight back' last week. The TV was on mute and had TMS on.. At the end of the England inning, TMS was doing the scorecard and came up with this absolute peach.

".. and Curren was 87 short of what would have been his maiden test century"

.. it took me a couple of seconds to realise that one.. was in splits
 
Basically any of the welsh rugby commentators when on international duty, Butler and Davies especially one sided. Sometimes seems that the BBC tradition of unbiased commentary only applies to the the English members of the team.
 
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