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Paul Merson



GoingUp

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Aug 14, 2011
3,577
Sussex By The Sea
Joey Jo Jo Jr. Shabadoo;8118174[B said:
]Even Motty called March "Ollie March" at the weekend on MOTD.[/B] Poor show. I'm good friends with one of the BBC Radio Humberside sports commentators and he actually puts a lot of time into researching the two teams playing in a game he's covering. Unfortunately I don't think many others share his professional pride.


Yeah I noticed that, he had just called him Solly before hand though hadnt he? So I guess its just an easy slip of the tongue on his part, rather then poor research.

Its pretty hard for any pundit to know everything about every club and their players and academy players etc, but they should be able to pronounce first team players name! but we see every week Merson pretty much struggles to pronounce anything that isnt Steve or Gary Smith lol
 


Marshy

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Jul 6, 2003
19,698
FRUIT OF THE BLOOM
Yeah I noticed that, he had just called him Solly before hand though hadnt he? So I guess its just an easy slip of the tongue on his part, rather then poor research.

Its pretty hard for any pundit to know everything about every club and their players and academy players etc, but they should be able to pronounce first team players name! but we see every week Merson pretty much struggles to pronounce anything that isnt Steve or Gary Smith lol

Its because he was up against Ollie Burke... simple slip of the tongue from Motty.
 


BBassic

I changed this.
Jul 28, 2011
12,220
Yeah I noticed that, he had just called him Solly before hand though hadnt he? So I guess its just an easy slip of the tongue on his part, rather then poor research.

Its pretty hard for any pundit to know everything about every club and their players and academy players etc, but they should be able to pronounce first team players name! but we see every week Merson pretty much struggles to pronounce anything that isnt Steve or Gary Smith lol

It isn't hard for Merson because he doesn't even bother. He's presumably quite well paid for his particular brand of bullshit so you'd hope he'd find a bit of time during his week to do some research before opening that useless void he calls a mouth.
 








kevo

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LlcoolJ

Mama said knock you out.
Oct 14, 2009
12,982
Sheffield
A presumably highly paid ignorant embarrassment.
It's like Arry in management. Gets away with being useless because he's a "character" and has loads of mates "in the game". Merson's greatest input to Soccer Saturday seems to be shouting "he's hit the beans!" before mumbling an incorrect pronunciation of the player's name.
 




Paris

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Jul 17, 2010
4,068
13th district
It's like Arry in management. Gets away with being useless because he's a "character" and has loads of mates "in the game". Merson's greatest input to Soccer Saturday seems to be shouting "he's hit the beans!" before mumbling an incorrect pronunciation of the player's name.

Don't forget Desmond
 


Leekbrookgull

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Jul 14, 2005
16,237
Leek
I particularly enjoyed Shearer and Wright desperately trying to find something to talk about regarding Brighton.

Anyway, the fundamental reason there are bad pundits is that their ex-pro arrogance prohibits them from doing any research because they "know the game"

Thought Shearer and his management skills were found out at Newcastle ?
 








Wardy's twin

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Oct 21, 2014
8,402
Its good hear from all these hard working well paid commentators and pundits, spending loads of time on research and then refer variously to Tomer Hemed as , Tamer Hemed or Tomer Hamad and of course our left winger Solomon March. Its not an issue as I prefer, as im sure CH does, to fly under the radar, the pundits appear to believe that we are going down and thats just fine, we'll prove them wrong.

As for the coverage on MOTD and the Sky programme with Kamara, the highlights made it look as though WBA were in the game in the first half when my recollection was that we were pretty dominant.

PS I thought that WBA looked like a Championship side.

If Barry's shot had gone in then it would have been a different game with them holding on to a 1-0 lead....our dominance was possession and some long shots then came the magic moments and to be fair we probably should have hammered them 5-0
 


S'hampton Seagull

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Oct 12, 2003
6,803
Southampton
You can just imagine his thought process. "Brighton have scored now so I'll put them down as getting one, but I still don't know who any of their players are so they will obviously lose. Muff have been in the Premier league for a couple of years so will beat anyone who hasn't".

He might get this one right of course!
 




Tricky Dicky

New member
Jul 27, 2004
13,558
Sunny Shoreham
I love Soccer Saturday (is it still called that ?), and as I don't go to games, I am generally watching it. I kinda agree that Merson can be annoying in some ways, but if you didn't have someone to liven the proceedings up somewhat - if there were 4 Matt Le Tissiers t - then it would be rather more dull. I vote to keep him on the panel, at least we get to laugh at his pronunciation of the names of some of our overseas visitors (and some home grown ones)
 


Seagull73

Sienna's Heaven
Jul 26, 2003
3,382
Not Lewes
I love Soccer Saturday (is it still called that ?), and as I don't go to games, I am generally watching it. I kinda agree that Merson can be annoying in some ways, but if you didn't have someone to liven the proceedings up somewhat - if there were 4 Matt Le Tissiers t - then it would be rather more dull. I vote to keep him on the panel, at least we get to laugh at his pronunciation of the names of some of our overseas visitors (and some home grown ones)

I do agree with this, but it also irritating that, when giving his post-match summary on Saturday (assuming that's what it was amongst the cockney drivel) - he was just about to start slating CH about Knockaert not being in the team at the start of the season, until Stelling advised him that he'd been injured....

THAT is how little research Merson actually does - that is why nobody should give a rats arse about his opinion.
 


SeagullDubai

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May 13, 2016
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Isnt he married to Mrs Merson
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Dolph Ins

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May 26, 2014
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