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[Albion] Garry Birtles
- Thread starter Farehamseagull
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afters
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Appalling from Birtles today, NFTV indeed. Very biased dinosaur with no clear understanding of the rules of the game, and worst of all kept making the same points over and over and over
Dick Swiveller
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- Sep 9, 2011
- 9,163
He was commentator for us Canadians too, eh?
Pevenseagull
Anti-greed coalition
- Jul 20, 2003
- 19,662
Brian Clough always used to tell us (or variants there of) 5 times?
GT49er
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To think Peter Ward was a make-weight in the deal that took Birtles to ManU (and Ritchie from ManU to Brighton) - one of Brian Clough's finest ever con jobs - he cleared £850K (a decent sum of money back then, in the days when Trevor Francis was the first £1M pound player) on the deal.
Same commentary for all English speaking countries
saafend_seagull
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Never heard of him. But see he’s from forest and played 250 games.
Worst commentator I have ever seen except gale.
Worst commentator I have ever seen except gale.
Sheebo
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- Jul 13, 2003
- 29,297
Also, it’s utter nonsense. By that logic you could run around tripping people up and rugby tackling them off the ball
Colonel Mustard
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- Jun 18, 2023
- 2,056
He was bad. 'I know I’m an ex-Forest player but that was never a penalty for Brighton'. 'I know I’m an ex-Forest player but that was definitely a penalty for Forest'. I know I’m an ex-Forest player but they deserve something from this game'. Blah blah.
Miserable fucker did everything he could to make the game unenjoyable for everyone today. When he came up with that nonsense "It's not just because I'm an ex-Forest player..." when my eyes nearly rolled so far into the back of my head I could see out my arsehole. Thing is, I'm not sure you'd even have enjoyed listening to him as a Forest fan much either. He was a grumpy little cretin who I can only imagine lives in his own filth most days, his old satin-feel Forest shorts showing off his flabby, wasting legs, surrounded by disintegrating pictures of himself torn from pages of old Match magazine pinned on the wall of his scabby little den, whilst he mumbles to himself about why nobody and nothing is good enough these days. Absolute life o fthe party that guy, and it will be a pleasure if I never hear his voice again.
Farehamseagull
Solly March Fan Club
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- #31
I know, ridiculous. Did he also coach how you how to concede 8 goals against Bristol fuckin Rovers Garry?!
It’s like all the ex Man Utd players in the media who constantly bang on about Ferguson’s methods. It’s ancient history now boys, move on!
Couldn’t hear him in the ground.
JOLovegrove
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- Jan 30, 2012
- 2,010
Is there anywhere I can listen to it back? I wanna see how bad it is!
BN41Albion
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- Oct 1, 2017
- 6,433
Who spells Gary with two 'r's, anyway?!
He said it repeatedly as well. Surprised the commentator just let him keep saying it.
Technohead
Active member
If you want to put yourself through such pain then Sky 30 minute highlights should be more than enough.
the beating monkey
Member
Disgraceful from Brighton, what they’re doing out there, Forest players just got on with the penalty deco against them, Brighton players are doing everything they can to disrupt the game. Thanks for the well balanced commentary Double R Garry
The Wookiee
Back From The Dead
He started off by going on about De Zerbi making so many changes every week and he shouldn’t be making the excuse of keeping players fresh as we are so early on in the season - he then basically was telling De Zerbi how to do his job by saying stick with the same eleven as players as much as you can as players shouldn’t need rest
Birtles is a dinosour from the last century . . . Shouldn't be anywhere near a broadcasting mic.