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Even Reginald D. Hunter would do a better job than Crooks.

I also think Andy Gray deserves a mention here. For years I despised that man, little more than a Scottish Townsend and solely responsible for holding back quality punditry on Sky for 15 years.

What would be funny would be to see Crooks stand in for Phil Thompson on Soccer Saturday. I can imagine Merson, Nicholas, Le Tissier and Stelling ripping him to shreds.

I put it down to sheer laziness. Gary Neville is easily the best pundit because you can tell he studies hours and hours of videotape and is a real student of the game. The likes of Shearer and Lawro give the impression they roll in off the golf course 5 mins before the show airs and wing it.

Townsend is clearly better than the awful Crooks and Bright but the reason people hate him so much is that he's the match pundit and has ruined many a good game with his ill-researched banalities and his pretty awful reading of penalty shouts. Brian Moore is so sorely missed, no one has come...

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