Motty on Desert Island Discs

[Cerberus Blade]

Recent World Cups always remind me how much I miss Barry Davies.

“Germany bring the stormtroopers up from the back for another corner...”

“The Germans have launched an aerial blitzkreig since half time...”

“Ruthlessly, mercilessly efficient in midfield, the Germans ...”, etc etc.

Saint Bazzer. Much missed.


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Is that Dudley Moore on camera duty? Or maybe "Bob", Rodney Bewes, out of the Likely Lads?

 

[wizadry]

Peter Alliss is fantastic. He can talk for ages about what’s going on in the background, when the camera zooms in on something away from the action, like a bloke walking his dog on the beach, and he makes it interesting and entertaining. Like Richie Benaud, he could talk about the most mundane subject and have you hooked until he’d finished. Never patronising, never condescending, just calm genius at work. And when they actually talked about the sport itself, both totally unsurpassed.

This is bang on and I couldn’t have put it better if I tried, brilliant!

 

[Trigger Blade]

Tyldesley must sleep in a Man Utd duvet and pillowcase. He absolutely loves them.

He seems quite fond of Brazil too, judging by last night’s fawning commentary (I think it was him)

Then I got the overground and underground

......wombling free

The two women they have on TMS on R4 ruin it for me because they have no history. No gravitas or SOH. *

Oddly, the female presenters on Women's cricket on TMS tend to be very experienced test match cricketers and more importantly don't have high pitched voices. Particularly good during the last ODI.

If you mean Ebony Rainford-Brent, she has a really irritating false laugh, makes TMS unlistenable.

If you mean Charlotte Edwards, I would.....

 

[jt64]

Tyldesley must sleep in a Man Utd duvet and pillowcase. He absolutely loves them.

It's not his fault that his employers may as well have been MUTV given the frequency they selected them for broadcast

 

[Tom Bott]

I want to be the first to say it. Alex Scott is fucking gorgeous. Completely uninterested in her football punditry.

Though interestingly Google has her down as dying in 1962 ??

Must be true it's on the internet..

Alex Scott
Footballer
Alexandra Virina Scott, MBE is a retired English footballer who mostly played as a right-back for Arsenal in the FA WSL. She made 140 appearances for the English national team and also represented Great Britain at the 2012 London Olympics. Wikipedia

Born: 14 October 1984 (age 33 years), London

Height: 1.63 m
Weight: 59 kg
Parents: Carol McKee
Current team: England women's national football team(#2 / Defender)
Date of death: 1962

 

[Cerberus Blade]

I also misread the thread title at first and thought it said, "Monty on Desert Island Discs". I was expecting hearing our Nick and his choice of music, like "I come from a land down under" by Men at Work.

 

[Isaw Joeshaw]

I thought it was noticeable in the last test on Sky, that Bumble and Geoff Boycott virtually ignored the ex women's test captain, every time she attempted to speak. Old school misogynists..

I must be a miswotsit because I thought she was terrible.[/QUOTE]

I agree.

I thought she was a pain in the arse and, just to show I'm not being misogywotsit ,so did Mrs. Joe.

I kept waiting for her to say " does my bum look big in this " ?

 

[Isaw Joeshaw]

Be that as it may, he still blows twats like Clive Tyldsley, Martin Tyler and Johnathan Pearce out of the water.

The other two I'll give you but Martin Tyler ? Not in my book.

Now , if we're talking real shite , how about the two who did the England commentary tonight , Martin Keown and Guy Mowbray (?) It has seldom been my misfortune to listen to such unadulterated patronising drivel and I t got to the stage where I had to turn the sound off.

Well , that and the fucking awful " Oh eh oh " song being repeated for the 900 th. time.

 

[JJ Sefton]

Along with Motty (and curiously enough, Trevor) we’ve lost some very good entertaining commentators in the past few years not necessarily through ill health but disappearing from our screens, ones who really were the voice of the sport growing up:

Golf - Peter Alice
Tennis - Dan Maskell
Snooker - “whispering” Ted Lowe
Motor Racing - Murray Walker (who can forget him pointing to Nigel Mansell’s bruised eye and accidentally poking it!)
Cricket - Ritchie Benaud (on David Gower, “majestic, casually majestic!”)

I enjoyed listening to them all growing up with the reassurance they’d be there for the next installment of their sport.

I’m not sure if we’ll get a new set of icons with such longevity.

Bill McLaren in the rugby.

 

[Stretch]

I laways preferred Davies but Motty is something of a national treasure. The best contemporary commentator, by some distance is Kevin Keatings. Daniel Mann is pretty good too.

 

[Doddyontheball]

My favourite commentator ( for a laugh) was Danny Blanchflower on a Sunday slot. One comment that sticks in the memory was , “It’s a goal , no sorry it’s a throw in” That Irish accent sounded so incongruous when commentating on Yorkshire matches.

 

[Bill puntin]

I laways preferred Davies but Motty is something of a national treasure. The best contemporary commentator, by some distance is Kevin Keatings. Daniel Mann is pretty good too.

What about our own Paul walker? Good as any of them in my opinion.

 

[I should coco]

I was expecting hearing our Nick and his choice of music, like "I come from a land down under" by Men at Work.

Why would he pick that?

If they'd done a song like "I come from a land up over" it would make more sense.

He's a Blade and from Leeds, he's not a possum-shagger.

 

[Stretch]

What about our own Paul walker? Good as any of them in my opinion.

Good shout, Walker is good.

 

[BushBlade]

The other two I'll give you but Martin Tyler ? Not in my book.

Now , if we're talking real shite , how about the two who did the England commentary tonight , Martin Keown and Guy Mowbray (?) It has seldom been my misfortune to listen to such unadulterated patronising drivel and I t got to the stage where I had to turn the sound off.

Well , that and the fucking awful " Oh eh oh " song being repeated for the 900 th. time.

Me too. I watched the second half with the sound down listening to music because if I’d heard Keown say ‘through the compartments’ again I’d have smashed the lot up.

 

[I should coco]

Me too. I watched the second half with the sound down listening to music because if I’d heard Keown say ‘through the compartments’ I’d have smashed the lot up.

I missed the first couple of minute and thought Keown was Terry Butcher and was wondering why he was talking so much drivel. Mystery solved when I realised it was the chimpanzee look-alike smug wanker.

Mowbray adds nothing but has a list of crap puns and 'interesting' facts that he prepared earlier. They all have to be used at some point. Contrast that with some of the excellent 5Live commentators.

You can understand that when BBC TV lost all their sports rights, they abandoned any hope and just appointed idiots.

 

[Trigger Blade]

I missed the first couple of minute and thought Keown was Terry Butcher and was wondering why he was talking so much drivel. Mystery solved when I realised it was the chimpanzee look-alike smug wanker.

Mowbray adds nothing but has a list of crap puns and 'interesting' facts that he prepared earlier. They all have to be used at some point. Contrast that with some of the excellent 5Live commentators.

You can understand that when BBC TV lost all their sports rights, they abandoned any hope and just appointed idiots.

The main thing that Mowbray has in his favour is that he isn’t Clive Tyldesley, plus he doesn’t have to work with Glenn Hoddle.

 

[I should coco]

The main thing that Mowbray has in his favour is that he isn’t Clive Tyldesley, plus he doesn’t have to work with Glenn Hoddle.

If you can get over the awful Estuary accent and the moaning delivery style, I actually think Hoddle is okay. He reads a game well and generally performs the role of the 'expert' pundit well, bu educating know-nowts like me.

The thing that Tyldesley has in his favour, is that he isn't Sam What's-a-matta-shuddup-a-ya-face.

 

[BushBlade]

If you can get over the awful Estuary accent and the moaning delivery style, I actually think Hoddle is okay. He reads a game well and generally performs the role of the 'expert' pundit well, bu educating know-nowts like me.

The thing that Tyldesley has in his favour, is that he isn't Sam What's-a-matta-shuddup-a-ya-face.

Hoddle has improved a great deal as a pundit over the years. Does exactly what a pundit should do, as you say, he points out things you don’t see as clearly on TV and explains things I wouldn’t see even watching the game live with the best view available.

 

[The Crab]

I missed the first couple of minute and thought Keown was Terry Butcher and was wondering why he was talking so much drivel. Mystery solved when I realised it was the chimpanzee look-alike smug wanker.

Mowbray adds nothing but has a list of crap puns and 'interesting' facts that he prepared earlier. They all have to be used at some point. Contrast that with some of the excellent 5Live commentators.

You can understand that when BBC TV lost all their sports rights, they abandoned any hope and just appointed idiots.

Martin Keown reacts to criticism of his commentary style....................................

 

[TJB.]

There's no conflict of interest there, we've never played Barnet.

Like, ever.

Factoid.

Muy interesante.

Is there anyone else in the (current) Football League who we've never played?

 

[Bashar Al Asaba]

Muy interesante.

Is there anyone else in the (current) Football League who we've never played?

Forest Green possibly?

 

[TJB.]

Forest Green possibly?

Closely followed by Macclesfield Town and Cheltenham Town, both of whom we've only played once (both in 2003 n'all).

 

[Bashar Al Asaba]

Closely followed by Macclesfield Town and Cheltenham Town, both of whom we've only played once (both in 2003 n'all).

I remember the Cheltenham match well. You needed a ticket stub from that game in order to get one for Liverpool in the league cup at some point.

So quite a few turned out for Cheltenham!

 

[BladeFisher]

Recent World Cups always remind me how much I miss Barry Davies.

“Germany bring the stormtroopers up from the back for another corner...”

“The Germans have launched an aerial blitzkreig since half time...”

“Ruthlessly, mercilessly efficient in midfield, the Germans ...”, etc etc.

Saint Bazzer. Much missed.


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Good job they never played Israel in a World Cup match. "The Germans have got the Israelis penned into their own penalty area, now they just have to smoke them out."

 

[BladeFisher]

Just to keep it Blades related......I parked near Barnet's ground when we played Huddesfield in the PO Final.

Then I got the overground and underground from underhill.

Sure it wasn't Wimbledon? Or were you disguised as a .......mole?

 

[blade too long]

Recent World Cups always remind me how much I miss Barry Davies.

“Germany bring the stormtroopers up from the back for another corner...”

“The Germans have launched an aerial blitzkreig since half time...”

“Ruthlessly, mercilessly efficient in midfield, the Germans ...”, etc etc.

Saint Bazzer. Much missed.


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ve haf vays of breaking down your defence, klop
and
hes going for an early shower , lets hope they done drop any chemicals in through the roof

both showed a dislike for the germans