BBC World Cup pundits

rcs

Does anyone know who the pundits are going to be on the BBC panel this year?

I hope Ian Wright doesn't feature on too many of the matches. He is the most biased pundit I've ever heard. England can do NO wrong as far as he's concerned... he doesn't contribute anything constructive at all, it wrecks my head..

Oh yeah, remember Gascoigne at the last world cup.. couldn't understand a word he said!!

Vokes

Wright
Shearer
Hansen
Lawro
Leonardo

Pigman II

SofaKing wrote:

Leonardo

I know The Da Vinci Code is the big event this summer but isnt that taking it a bit far?

Great player (Tab Ramos might disagree) but I don't get why the BBC went after him instead of someone who the British public might be more familar with?

arbeitsscheuer

The whole thing's ridiculous - I'm still reeling from the news that ITV have invited back Jimmy-Floyd Hasselbaink after being thoroughly inept and barely intelligible last time.

Hansen and Lawro are the only truly class pundits, and Lawro won't be in the studio IIRC - he'll be Motty's co-commentator.

Don't think I'll be paying any attention to the half-time musings of the rest tbh, Wrighty in particular is a complete and utter plonker. And this coming from an Arsenal fan.

ronbyrne2005

will be watching rte all the way with a bit of bbc for comedic purposes and hillarity when the inevitable happens and england crash out "we wus robbed guv!" ,at least dunphy and co express their mind and try to be free thinkers unlike nearly all utv/bbc with exception lawro/hansen.

zAbbo

Leonardo, as in the brazilian who flung elbows in '94

Ha no wonder Le Saux wasn't happy

Vokes

Dunno. he could be decent and bring a certain objectivity tha the likes of Wright lacks.

IIRC, Ginola was actually a very good pundit for the BBC, for WC98 (i think)

Ruskie4Rent

Motson will keep me off BBC. Can't stand him wetting himself every time rooney touches the ball.

Lemlin

Ruskie4Rent wrote:

Motson will keep me off BBC. Can't stand him wetting himself every time rooney touches the ball.

Or telling us about what happened in the final of 1938 or 42. He goes over the top with the statistics.

Jonny Arson

Is Martin O'Neill on the team? I recall him analyising before on the Beeb during major tournaments and he was damn good I thought.

I'll be doing my best to avoid Ian Wright anyway so it will probably be the Dunphy and Giles show for me!

herbieflowers

Still tohugh, prefer him to the over-the-top George Hamilton, now there's a poor commentator! Has Barry Davies retired?

Jonny Arson

herbieflowers wrote:

Still tohugh, prefer him to the over-the-top George Hamilton, now there's a poor commentator! Has Barry Davies retired?

Booo :mad: Georgie is a legend! Pity about the rest of RTE commentators but at least there's no Trevooorrrr Welch in their ranks!

AFAIK Barry Davies has retired..... thank fucking christ.

therecklessone

Lemlin wrote:

Or telling us about what happened in the final of 1938 or 42

Think Germany and Italy lost to the Yanks and England in North Africa...:D

herbieflowers

Zane from MTV2 wrote:

Booo :mad: Georgie is a legend! Pity about the rest of RTE commentators but at least there's no Trevooorrrr Welch in their ranks!

AFAIK Barry Davies has retired..... thank fucking christ.

Aw, I loved that old guy! Brian Moore was the greatest imo

Pigman II

therecklessone wrote:

Think Germany and Italy lost to the Yanks and England in North Africa...:D

Don't forget Japan. They had great start to the tournament but it kinda blew up in their faces towards the end.

arbeitsscheuer

herbieflowers wrote:

Aw, I loved that old guy! Brian Moore was the greatest imo

I loved Barry Davies - but Brian Moore??? He was the worst EVER.
And he always had a suitably nonsensical gibbon sitting next to him, preumably to make him seem relatively intelligent and knowledgeable. Think Ron Atkinson or Kevin Keegan. Or Graham Taylor. One of that lot were ALWAYS his co-commentators.

George Hamilton is also abysmal, frequently getting the names of players wrong, his facts wrong, his pronunciation wrong... But he's still better than that complete and utter IDIOT McGee. Darragh Maloney is RTE's only decent commentator.

In fact, the only commentators I really like are Peter Drury and Jon Champion. And they're on ITV. Who I hate with a passion.

Actually come to think of it, I hate most of the commentators and pundits...
Should probably watch all the games in a pub then, shouldn't I?!