Worst TV football pundit?

[Badger]

Andy Townsend, not even worth looking at the others.

 

[joeinbrighton]

Claridge must have some Australian DNA in him, as I've noticed his tendency to start every sentence with "Look...".

Not noticed him finish every sentence with a question yet though.

 

[Guinness Boy]

*stares at poll*

It's like walking in to a newly opened gastropub and getting the menu, only to find that everything either comes with broccoli, a poo reduction or both.

 

[Seagull over Canaryland]

Very difficult to separate that list, all as bad as each other. The downside of the forthcoming World Cup will be the utter dross on offer from the pundits.

So I nominated Garth Crooks under the 'Other' option, surprised he didn't make your first team.

All of that lot make promising young pundits like Adam Virgo and Michael Gray seem gifted.

 

[vegster]

Claridge must have some Australian DNA in him, as I've noticed his tendency to start every sentence with "Look...".

Yes, starting any statement with "look.... " is just plain condescending and makes him hard to take.

 

[edna krabappel]

Why's Carra not in the list when the far superior Neville is?

He is now, look at the bottom

 

[banjo]

Jamie and Jamie.

 

[Gwylan]

No Mark Bright or Ian Wright? (although I don't recall the latter being on for ages). And no Gus

I voted for Shearer because he never says anything remotely interesting and talks in platitudes all the time (but I could easily have gone for Owen or Townsend)

 

[Monkey Man]

I quite like Townsend. I can't really understand why he engenders so much hostility ... he seems to analyse the game pretty well I'd say.

I also like Claridge. And Warren Aspinall.

 

[jameswestport]

Eamon Dunphy

 

[Keeping The Dream Alive.]

Also surprised there's no Mark Bright.

Dion Dublin is terrible when he makes an appearance.

Perhaps this could be the next NSC World Cup? 'Britains worst football pundit' That would be an amusing one to present to the 'winner'.

Someone make it happen!

 

[vegster]

Also surprised there's no Mark Bright.

Dion Dublin is terrible when he makes an appearance.

Perhaps this could be the next NSC World Cup? 'Britains worst football pundit' That would be an amusing one to present to the 'winner'.

Someone make it happen!

We could have Bozza photobomb the lucky recipient with a splendid plastic Oscar outside a Nando's. Let's do it !

 

[Thunder Bolt]

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How on earth has this PRICK not made it into the selections?
Biased, smug, thick and extremely dull in equal measure.

Another vote for Bright. I know he's not in the poll, but he irritates me more than the rest put together.

 

[DavidinSouthampton]

I never have any problems understanding Jamie Carragher. Don't always agree with him, but he usually has something interesting to say.

Not a fan of any of Savage, Townsend, Carlisle or Redknapp. On reflection though, Savage is the most annoying and consistently the least intelligible, so he gets my vote.

Totally agree about savage. He got my vote. Opinionated tw@t.

Which reminds me, maybe I should have nominated Garth Crooks.

 

[Lyndhurst 14]

Those of us based in the US used to be lumbered with Warren Barton on Fox Soccer. Completely clueless and a walking advert for tanning salons. Fortunately Fox lost the contract for the Premiership to NBC so we only have to endure him for FA Cup and Champions League games.

 

[Mowgli37]

Alan Shearer - Like him as a person but as a pundit he just states the bloody obvious week in week out, never anything insightful.

"That's poor defending"
"He should have scored"
"such a reckless challenge"

May as well have the volume off when he's doing his "analysis".

 

[Ernest]

Clark Carlisle is the worst, seems to be a media favourite for some reason

 

[joeinbrighton]

Alan Shearer - Like him as a person but as a pundit he just states the bloody obvious week in week out, never anything insightful.

"That's poor defending"
"He should have scored"
"such a reckless challenge"

May as well have the volume off when he's doing his "analysis".

Alan Shearer seems to live by the Roy Walker mantra of commentary, as in 'say what you see'.

 

[The Large One]

Can I go back in time and say Trevor Franciszzzz?

 

[Easy 10]

Yes, starting any statement with "look.... " is just plain condescending and makes him hard to take.

I feel the same about people who start a statement with the word "listen". Look, I AM listening bucko. Now you'd best get on with it because I assure you, I won't be for long.

On to the poll then. I admit I have sat on my sofa open-mouthed at the catastrophoc landslide of boulder-shaped 24-carat DRIVEL which erupts forth from that odd, over-gesticulating shambles known as Garth Crooks. This is a man so grotesquely bloated with his own sense of self-importance, and enlightening, razor-sharp perception of the game, that every one of his questions is framed in the manner of an extensive, tedious droning monologue about pension reform from a minor minister at a Tory party conference. This will usually result in a one-word answer, "yes" or "no". That is if the interviewee hasn't already collapsed through malnourishment halfway through, or has simply given up the will to live.

Then theres Mark (not so) Bright. A man who has somehow carved out a professional career through an innate ability of stating the absolutely bleeding obvious, and yet framing it in such a way as if to present it as an extraodinairy pearl of wisdom hitherto unheard of in the realms of football co-commentry or studio analysis, usually before reverting to complete gibberish. Vaguely reminiscent of a small child who has managed to spaff his own handprint in lurid green paint on a scrap of paper, and is now keenly bringing it to you for your approval, so you can pin it on your fridge.

One of those. Or Townsend. Bloody Townsend.