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What a pathetic load of bollocks!

Yes, how dare us!

Yes, why isn't he waddling around the centre of the pitch looking bored like he often does for us these days?

Christ, are they going to show 100 replays after every damn goal attempt? This is ridiculous!

Tim Howard needs to check his medication. He looks like he's about to start swearing and biting people's legs.

If they show any more replays it'll be half time!

I wish I knew if Gerrard was staying or not, then I'd know how to react.

ITV started way too early. I'm sick of it already and the damn match hasn't started yet!

Very true. This is probably the moment he escaped from his merseyside hell and headed to Manchester:

Yes, I saw that and wanted to punch him. Even Redknapp, who knew it was hardly a lighthearted subject for Liverpool fans, looked a bit rattled. And all of that 'West 'Aaaam' crap he comes out with - he's a middle class boy from bloody Buckinghamshire! Perfect mascot for Ingerlund, I guess.

A sharp smack to Patrick Stewart, by the way for ballsing up a perfectly good chance to put Cordon in his place. That wasn't making it so, you bald Yorkshire bastard! Fecking amateur! [YOUTUBE]NIBUWqSTp90[/YOUTUBE]

I'd find a way to remove both.

To be fair to Hansen he probably had the director shouting in his ear 'Get that idiot to say something'. That's the mistake both channels make at these tournaments - they hire well-known names who suit the host country and/or the competition in some way or another, and then have to teach then 'on the job' how to contribute. Once again, though, all ITV has done this time is wait for the BBC to get Desailly reasonably coherent, and not quite as loud, and then offer him more to go over to them!

Anyone like Chiles who moves from the Beeb to ITV has made a Faustian deal and deserves nothing but derision. What I hate most about their football coverage is that it's like an empty box wrapped up in gold leaf. They bring in a presenter (Chiles) whose downbeat style is the least suited to the channel, assemble the most witless team of analysts imaginable (Andy 'Begorrah' Townsend, Gareth 'Besnorrah' Southgate and someone else they nicked form the Beeb, Desailly) and top the whole thing off with a commentator (Clive Tiddley) who thinks he's a great wit and can't even pronounce the letter 't' as anything other than 'd' (e.g. 'Thad magical nide in Barcelona when Manchesder Unided...') and another one (Peter Drury) who wets his knickers whenever anything mildly noteworthy occurs. Then ITV hurls huge amounts of money hyping the whole thing up! It's like David Blunkett opening a hairdresser's salon and spending all his money on styling wax. It's bloody shit and an insult to the eyes and ears. Even my fecking FEET hate ITV!

Bluenosed Lineker: '...and Gerrard will probably be playing on the left, in the position he's played so often for England...' Yes, Gary, mate: if it was Liverpool, you'd be saying, '...And Gerrard out on the LEFT!!!!!' 'Gerrard, not in the centre....um...amazing!' 'Well, well, well...! How extraordinary!!!!'

Statistically, Code has only been judged a sad fuck on 68% of his recent posts. He has been considered 'mildly tiresome' on 12% of occasions, gutbucketingly vomitworthy on 3% of instances, and 'too pompous to be true' on 17% of posts.

Not James. They should make Warhol prints of that stupid 'I've cocked up again, never mind!' grin. Green and Hart seem pretty interchangeable. Maybe Green, just, for his experience, but better their limitations than James's inexplicable idiocy at crucial times.

Ha! :biggrin:

Much better opening game than the dullsville affairs we usually get. AWful coverage from ITV though - I'd rather have a vuvuzela honking in my ear than listen to any more of that hysterical crap.

ITV seem absolutely astonished that South African fans are quite excited their team has scored a goal. 'What a party they'll have tonight!' Get over it you daft dybbuk!

The ITV commentator is so over the top it's quite funny.

Don't be silly. 'Coming out' with an EDM to a mostly empty chamber, maybe getting a line or two of local coverage for the already converted? Pretty much what I said - his heart's in the right place but it's not the best way to get anything discussed in the Commons. Hardly a 'jibe' from anyone.

If he says 'enjoy' once more, like some kind of oleaginous waiter who has just tied a napkin around your neck, I will hunt him down and smash his face in!

Only £100m from the richest man in the world? Fecking cheapskate!:telloff:

I give up. They don't meet up and then deviate on these things. If it's 'spun' it's done so in agreement. The wording will almost certainly have been checked very carefully and accepted by both. Someone like Dominic King has a looser relationship with an LFC manager. At a smaller club like Fulham, the local hack assigned to the club has a much closer connection and he doesn't expect to be a stooge (they may move on one day and they don't want a portfolio full of notably wrong 'exclusive' reports).