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Alan Green ditched as 606 host


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Apparently was told he wouldnt be hosting the 606 phone in after this season so said fuck it then, im not doing the rest of this season either!

 

Top man (in a marmite sort of way!)

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Controversial but not simply for the sake of it, unlike most of the press these days. Mainly because he, and please forgive the cliche, calls it as he sees it.

 

The Djemba Djemba incident was crudely put but folks calling him racist based on if they already disliked him was idiotic.

 

Odd that managers are lauded for winding up animosity (slur, maureen) , or it's completely ignored (moyes - the peoples club) whereas someone who upsets folk because he says there team isn't very good to watch or that a manager is a bit of a bully is seen as controvesial.

 

Good luck to him, 5 live will be less interesting.

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Daily Mail comparing him to Suarez here:

 

Why the BBC should protect Alan Green: The man who operates without fear, but is the radio equivalent of Suarez and Pietersen

 

CHARLES SALE reported that 5Live's Alan Green will be heard less on the radio after he lost his role as the presenter of 606. Green polarises opinion, but IAN LADYMAN enjoys listening to his brash style.

 

According to some of his colleagues at the BBC, Alan Green can be difficult to work with. Radio 5Live’s leading commentator can be free with his opinions, intransigent in his beliefs and convinced of his own worth to the corporation.

All of this, of course, is why the BBC should safeguard him.

Not everybody out there likes Green. He is the Marmite commentator. Like, dislike and nothing in between.

 

In relieving him of his duties as the host of their phone-in show ‘606’, though, the BBC have cut the air time of one of their most compelling figures. The BBC – and 5Live in particular – are not short of talented presenters.

The likes of Mark Chapman and Mark Pougatch are broadcasters in their prime while the deeply-talented Ian Dennis and Darren Fletcher will continue to get better and serve the beeb for many years to come.

Green, though, brings the station something those guys do not have. Under constant competition from the innovators at SKY and, to a lesser extent, TalkSport, the BBC must always be a safe pair of hands but, nevertheless, they must never be too safe.

From that point of view, Green is their lone outrider, their maverick. Not every successful team needs a Kevin Pietersen or a Luis Suarez but it can often help to have one.

 

In many ways, Green reflects the game he loves. Colourful, multi-layered, complicated and occasionally controversial. Certainly, he can go too far. He has had his share of ‘did he really just say that’ moments.

However, Green is also a broadcaster who operates without fear. He does not ingratiate and, when he is at his best, will happily cut through the froth that can irritate us all to get to the heart of what really does remain a very simple game.

 

Green will never be universally popular. To many he will continue to be an irritant. He is, however, part of the fabric of 5Live’s football coverage and without him the BBC’s coverage would not quite be the same.

 

Never far from controversy, Green has a history of run-ins with fans and managers

 

1993: Famously fell foul of Manchester United boss Sir Alex Ferguson who allegedly told

Green: 'You don’t pick my f****** teams.'

 

In 2009, Green said of Ferguson: 'He either bullies or frightens. It's the way he exerts his control over the media. He would be a fantastic propaganda minister. He knows how to manipulate and some of my colleagues take it in.'

 

2004: Censured by broadcasting regulator Ofcom after suggesting Cameroonian midfielder Eric Djemba-Djemba spoke in pidjin English. In an exchange with the referee, Green believed Djemba-Djemba said 'me no cheat' to the official.

Ofcom said: 'The suggestion that a black player was incapable of speaking grammatical English was inappropriate.'

 

2005: Received death threats after suggesting Everton boss David Moyes should 'instead of raising expectations after Everton's fourth-place finish the previous season, (he should) suppress them.'

 

2007: Sylvester Stallone was paraded on the pitch at Goodison Park, prompting Green to question whether the wheels would still be on Sly's limousine when he returned to it later that day.

 

2009: Fulham ban then manger Roy Hodgson from carrying out post-match interviews with 5Live following 'insulting' remarks such as 'Fulham should not have bothered to turn up' during the 3-0 defeat to Manchester United at Old Trafford.

 

2013: Green slammed the Premier League in an article earlier this year: 'The league I see week in, week out, isn't remotely as good as it thinks it is,' he told the Belfast Telegraph. He also criticised the 'woeful defending' and the 'selfish, oafish behaviour.'

 

2013: Announced he had presented his final 606 phone-in show.

 

Alan Green irritant Five Live BBC, like Luis Suarez and Kevin Pietersen | Mail Online

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Green didnt toe the BBC party line.

 

BBC are becoming an even more Tory run organization. You have to be a cucumber sandwich eating, posh talking, ginger bear drinking snob to fit in with the BBC mentality these days.

 

Take MOTD for example. Lineker, Lawrenson, Garth Crooks, Michael Owen (any money on it) .

 

Snobs.

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Green didnt toe the BBC party line.

 

BBC are becoming an even more Tory run organization. You have to be a cucumber sandwich eating, posh talking, ginger bear drinking snob to fit in with the BBC mentality these days.

 

Take MOTD for example. Lineker, Lawrenson, Garth Crooks, Michael Owen (any money on it) .

 

Snobs.

 

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Colin Murray fucked off from MOTD2, Green fucked off from 606, two reds gone to be replaced by bland sycophantic air-sucking sacks of vacuous stardust. The trivial twittersphere corporate non-entities continue to multiply and drown the airwaves of modern society.

 

Cunts.

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I was about to say that it wouldn't surprise me if Talkshite went after him, though they have a Stanloy Collymore wankathon most weekends.

 

I like Stan, always thought he was a bit of a bell until I started listening to him on Sags and Collymore during the week. He knows his stuff and doesn't bullshit.

 

It irritates me how Mark Saggers keeps shouting over him all the time though.

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