Was fantastic to hear Clive Tyldesley and Ally last night, they have pretty good knowledge of other leagues as well. Clive has good enthusiasm for the game regardless of the club, country or players and still sounds sharp compared to others.
BBC vs ITV Euro 2020
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In the latest episode of the United Hour Podcast, Nik and Imran hold a long overdue conversation about United's awful league form with 1 win in 7. They discuss a disappointing draw at Bournemouth, a not so disappointing draw against Liverpool and a crushing defeat at Chelsea - Is time nearly over for Erik Ten Hag?
Then in a special second half of the pod, Nik welcomes Natalie ( https://twitter.com/natalie_17) to discuss the fortunes of Manchester United Women as they booked a place in the FA Cup Final after a historic first ever win vs. Chelsea.
BBC wins because of Alex Scott.
The Immobile chat was a real cringe. Usually the BBC without its adverts run out of things to talk about in some of the group games involving the lesser teams, and just revert to talking about England. I bet that would have happened if the BBC had the Austria/Montenegro coverage. Euro 2008 was particularly tough to watch in some of the games, since they couldn't talk about England. But Shearer and co are already just mumbling generalities to get them through.
Phil Neville used to catch a lot of flack for having the charisma of a baked potato, but he always does his homework and he brings a lot of knowledge and insight whenever he's on a panel. Though it's not like Shearer and Murphy are bringing charisma and enthusiasm to offset their limited knowledge either. They're just awful. At least Robbie Savage offsets his lack of insight by sounding like a pantomime villain.
For all the stick commentators are getting, shout out to ally and Clive iirc yesterday who commentated on the game of the tournament so far Netherlands vs Ukraine and added to the spectacle. Didn't sound bored or boring and seemed to enjoy the match from the first minute just like the rest of us.
Someone at ITV either has something in for Tyldesley or they're best mates with Matterface. Demoting him from lead commentator was bizarre.
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Genius. Don’t know who he is but that’s hilarious.
I'm watching it all on Turkish TV. TRT are showing all the matchea free to air in 4K. And the pundits make more sense too even though I don't speak a word
no matter how good she is - she is excellent and puts the vast majority of her male counterparts in the shade - the BBC still have Jermaine Jenas.
Some people just are effortlessly likeable, she is one of them. I'd add in Crouch, Ian Wright, McCoist, Rio (maybe that's because I'm a United fan)...there's a certain charisma and general happiness about them which you really feel as a consumer.
Shearer, Jenas, Lawro...they just make me feel tired and old.
Any chance any of them have Kate Upton? That's what could rulactantly made my mind up.
BBC do have Maya Jama on Crouchy's live show...
Danny Murphy is a black hole into which all joy and animation disappears never to return. I can feel him sucking away at my will to live.
Wake me up when Danny Murphy has something positive to say. Everything that comes out of his mouth is negative.
For some reason, on the same monitor, I get ITV way sharper than the BBC footage. Weird.
This Peter Crouch after-party show is a shambles. They had Charlie Adam on and both he and Crouch used to play with Marko Arnautovic so were discussing his controversial celebration. Both reiterating "he's a good lad" at every opportunity. Turns out he was being racist and shouting abuse. Good lad indeed.
https://www.theguardian.com/footbal...-uefa-to-investigate-marko-arnautovic-remarks
https://www.theguardian.com/footbal...-uefa-to-investigate-marko-arnautovic-remarks
Thought that last sentence was going to go in a different direction.
He was moaning about Shaqiri’s attitude during Stoke’s relegation season the other night. There’s a theme of Stoke’s British players that season trying to paint themselves as blameless for how bad we were. Shaqiri was our best player by a mile.
boobies
Sent that to his then wife Natalie Sawyer (god knows how he pulled her) and she just laughed it off.
Nothing to see here.
Nigel de Jong is fcuking dreamy. ITV May win for him alone.
Talking from watching it online via BBC Iplayer (UHD) and ITV Hub (dreadful)
there's only one winner.
there's only one winner.
ITV has crap music and weird footage of the matches which means BBC purely win by default.
Love the conversion with the pundits. Listening to alan shearer makes me sleepy.
Let's not forget the commentary is so much better than BBC. I don't know why Jenas is the main man for BBC.
In terms of coverage aside from the highlights packages itv are winning.
I usually like Ally but he's been a moaning b'stard tonight.
People/fans don't forget, this is France and Germany's first game. Its been a exciting match.
People/fans don't forget, this is France and Germany's first game. Its been a exciting match.
Clive and Ally are by far the best team on either station. Should be the main men, not bloody Matterface.
So much nostalgia listening to Clive. Such a shame he’s not their lead commentator anymore.
He's been brilliant, ITV seem to realise they're on to a winner so seem to be getting him on pretty much every match.
For once I think ITV have generally been better in most aspects so far. Longer build ups, better pundits, commentators etc.
That guy who was commentating on the Scottish game was dreadful, described the halfway line goal like it was a 5 yard tap in.
I thought Clive was going to die from excitement at how many World Cup and CL winners were on the pitch tonight.
ITV have hit out the park with de Jong, Emma Hayes, Clive and Ally (should be main commentators) Keano and Neville. Eni Aluko is shite though.
Nigel de Jong is trying to hard at ITV (and Bein Sports), energy draining listening to him.
Usually I'm a big fan of watching games on German ZDF, probably not an option for most people here.
Usually I'm a big fan of watching games on German ZDF, probably not an option for most people here.
Only because the competition is really poor though.
I found McCoist particularly annoying in the France game. The narrative seems to be more important than what is actually happening on the pitch.
And the ITV web player is crap.
Thought Rob Green was great on the highlights yesterday, sounds like he understands football, BBC should use him more
Hard to argue with this. What a woman
Also, who is the main presenter for ITV? He is absolutely shocking. He makes Chris Sutton seem tolerable.
Usually like McCoist but last night he seemed to be talking about everything except what was actually happening. And he seemed to not think much of our Paul. Kanté though? I think he’d marry him if he could.
Not sure if I’m allowed to
at such comments with it being 2021 and all - but yea, she wins it for me too!When he dropped that "70% of the world is covered by water, the rest is by Kante" I actually cringed. Was he on @TrollFootball's account in the afternoon before?
Yeah, the ITV Hub is appalling. Stream seems to die every 3 minutes.