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Agreed. He has to show something.

Deep down I think he's out of his depth.

 

Is Lee Dixon ill?

 

What happened? He works for NBCSN commentating matches along with Arlo White. I kind of like his "no nonsense" approach.

 

He was on ITV last night and he just looked like he'd aged 10 years.

I saw him once up in Barnes pre-Lockdown and he looked OK.

He must be hanging around with Lineker and getting shitfaced a lot.

 

Jesus Ireland are shit. Fair play for coming back into it but I fell asleep during the first half. I remember as a kid these games were things you looked forward to, a real treat.

 

Great stuff Charlie Austin is back

 

It's funny. 95% of the NBCSN crew and commentators are English. They're old timers mostly and I only started watching English football in '04. So I assume that these people are well known in the UK but truthfully I have no idea how popular they are. The most popular ones here are Rebecca Lowe, Robbie Mustoe, Robbie Earl, Arlo White, Lee Dixon, Graham Souness. Some Neil somebody from The Sun drops in to give behind the scenes updates before the matches.

 

Euro odds. Top three look right to me. I wouldn't put Germany as high as four. They might not even make it out of their group which is tougher than the one they had at the last WC.

England +500
France +500
Belgium +600
Germany +700
Spain +800
Portugal +900
Italy +950
Netherlands +1200
Denmark +2800
Croatia +3300
Turkey +6000
Poland +8000
Sweden +8000
Switzerland +8000
Ukraine +10000
Russia +10000
Austria +12500
Czech Republic +15000
Wales +15000
Scotland +25000
Slovakia +25000
Hungary +25000
Finland +35000
North Macedonia +50000

 

England are always too high immediately before big tournaments, I would put them sixth behind Portugal

 

Haha, no way in hell are we joint favourites. Agreed with Salaco that 6th would be about right.

 

the Neil is probably Neil Custis.

Rebecca Lowe is a goer from the old Setanta format which was big sauce for about 2-3 years, 2007 to 2009.

They had a show called the Monday Night Football show and it was co-hosted by Lowe and James Richardson who was himself the ORIGINAL global football pundit. He was doing a thing called Football Italia in the early 1990's before the Premier League came along and if you wanted glamour that is where you got it. They had ONE live game a week- and it was always good- Juventus vs Napoli, Milan vs Sampdoria, that sort of thing, and then they had a highlights show on Saturday morning, all on terrestrial TV.

It had a funky intro too. Way way ahead of its time and just better than most of the alternatives and even some of the stuff that replaced it.



They- Setanta- collapsed after their books got opened post-Banking crisis........the company was found to be broadly worthless..... and most of the dollies that worked on those channels gravitated to SKY, or tried to.

The funniest thing was that it collapsed when Haye was on the verge of fighting Klitschko - 2 years before it actually happened- and Haye was limping around claiming he hurt his BACK! and nobody was buying it......Klitschko stepped in to fight Chagaev instead, and the whole show moved to SKY on about a weeks notice or something.


June 8th, 2009.



June 23rd, 2009







Ali Douglas, Charlie Webster, Craig Burley, Jason Cunty Cundy, Matt Teale, Rob Walker, Charlotte Jackson, Dickhead Sherwood, etc.

They had some real smutties working for them. One of them, the aforementioned Charlie Webster, launched a campaign to keep "Rapist" Ched Evans away from Sheffield United. She forgot to mention that just a few days previous she had gone on twitter crying that she turned down an opportunity to meet...........Mike Tyson.

‘Hypocrite!’ Evans sister blasts Sky Sports babe over Ched claim


But their absolute lowest point was when they had former England and Arsenal/Palace/QPR/ fullback Kenny Sansom on to do commentary on Liverpool vs WBA, I believe it was.

Liverpool had Keane playing for them that day and he was scoring, and Kenny was trying to do George Foreman routine in the studio, informing people what was happening, breaking it down for them.

Literally, this guy Sansom had been plucked from the street. Literally plucked from the street, under a windowsill somewhere and asked to do a gig. He was back on the sauce soon after, posing in rigged photos which were supposed to chronicle his ongoing decline into alcoholism and homelessness.



As for Rebecca Lowe, She either didn't make it, or didn't ask, and so she appeared on the US networks, or the Arab networks, which is where disgraced Hairy Hands Keys and Big Knob Andy went.

Souness works all over the place. BT, RTE, SKY, he'll take a tenner of anyone, including the SUN newspaper.

Souness has absolutely no fucking qualms, he will LITERALLY work with or for anyone, break any taboo, do anything for a few quid.

And he sucks, too. Every sentence is "Oh when I was at Porto" or "When I was at Newcastle".........."When I was at Liverpool".


Honestly, football presenting/punditry is the lowest fucking form of vaudeville entertainment going today. If you want clapped out morons, old busted up footballers, sort of failed dollybirds, etc.......you will find them there, voyzing their ping and giving it large.

There are exceptions but they are fleeting or retired by now.

 

Worth watching just to read the headlines scrolling along the chyron........ oh and listen to Haye talk shit.

Remember Shearer was taken in to manage Newcastle, they had the flags, and they went down.

 

I think you should get the Newcastle job just so we can read feebles reaction here after every match.

 

Nah Fathead Bruce has that for the foreseeable.

Unless he gets fired for not being relegated.

After all, if your owner expects to get relegated, and doesn't, how can you be said to be meeting expectations?

 

So once he gets fired you're taking the job?

 

I don't know anything about football. I only know how to take the piss and provide receipts.

 

Just don't say that in the interview.

 

Funny that- they had Rodgers up for an interview when he was interested in the Liverpool job and he said they could shove it if he had to do an interview.

They gave him the job.

I hear they call that "failing upwards".

He's been "failing upwards" ever since.

Seriously- his failure to get top 4 now two seasons in a row when they were on the cusp, twice, is a failure.

 

there's a lot of shit on youtube.

Just came off one show that had like 540 viewers.

Good stuff lads.

Bye.

 

So it's 36 degrees out here today. Need to do a bit of yardwork but i think i will put that off.

 

Won some good money on Syria vs Maldives today. I knew Mahmoud Al-Mawas would be too much for Imran Nasheed which is why the coach subbed him for Mohamed Irufaan. They also subbed out Ibrahim Mahudhee Hussain for Hussain Sifaau but it was too little too late.

 

Sweet, Al-Mawas is a beast.

 

Saw a docu called "king otto" tonight, it was about tge Greece side of 2004

 

Hated that team, completely ruined that tournament

 

Did they highlight all of the similarities to past Brazil sides of football lore?

 

Thanks for the info. Yeah, I think Rebecca Lowe's dad was in show business or some kind of presenter. She does a good job here. Cracks a few jokes here and there and always low key cheers for her Palace. When she's off her replacement is a British guy with an Italian name. I don't remember it. He's pretty good but all business.

Back in the Fox Soccer Channel days they had a guy named Bobby McMahon. That Scottish motherfucker was the encyclopedia of football. He could tell you the back up goalkeeper for Gillingham's under 18's in 1986 without blinking an eye.

ESPN had an old Irish guy that was kind of like that who was always way too hyped up for his age for a game of football. Tommy something.

 

Gabrielle Marcotti?

It's amazing how shit things are today in football media land- Marcotti and a few others used to a podcast called "The Game"- and I think Richardson appeared on it too.

Marcotti, Tony Evans from the Livapuel Echo, Olly Kay, Rory Smith and Allyson Rudd..........it was great.

I remember them ripping the piss out of Nemanja Vidic after Torres had destroyed him at Anfield and the word was that the sun had gotten in his eyes and the guy said "Oh yes, other people mentioned they had seen this mysterious yellow orb in the sky, too", and Evans was like "Thinking Defenders?! Thinking Defenders??? PUT IT IN ROW Z" etc.

Today they'd be scared to say something in case Nemanja was suffering from mental stress after the game.

I remember that day. Richard Hairy Hands Smash It Keys was full of piss and vinegar before the game. With his little mean downturned mouth and his evil little "Sheriff of Cuntingham" face. "Oh, Liverpool had a lead, but they've BLOWN it." He was so delighted.

He was fucking trembling afterwards. Literally crapping his pants in the studio.

LOVE IT.

 

Tommy Smyth. Literally the worst commentator of all times.

"Onion Bag".

FFS.

 

That's one of the themes of the documentary, the "underdogs that everybody wanted to lose".

It's ironic- as one of the other themes is how before Rehagel came in, the Greek side was full of people who liked to do their own thing , the consequences be damned, and they were like this as Greece was full of people who liked to do their own thing..........the consequences be damned.

So Rehagel organizes them and suddenly they get hated

 

He would come on all hyped up & when the match started, immediately began shouting like he was announcing the Kentucky Derby. I thought he was going to bust a nut in his pants a few times.