Yeah this crops up a lot from politicians and higher management
Why would anyone praise a question?
Either buying time to think of an answer or sucking up to the person asking the question
All a load of meaningless tripe
Footballers who go into punditry love saying 'Listen'
I think they must get it from managers who walk into a dressing room and tell them to shut up and listen as they are all being noisy and jovial.
They are used to hearing it in sporting circles so often that they then bring it into common...
Gary Stevens (ex Brighton/Tottenham) once said 'That excites me' when referring to something like a new managerial appointment when he was doing some punditry on the Meridian Match or alike
That has always stuck in my head as me and my mates used to always mimic players and we used to use that...