Martin Keown

MrJoeSoap

Anyone have an idea of how much this man gets paid for giving us such insight into tonights game as "Abigail" instead of Abidal, "Puskas" instead of Busquets and saying that Barca need four goals to go through now?

He makes Mark Lawrenson look like Mastermind material.

Seriously though, TV3 have the worst taste in commentators, presenters and pundits. Discuss.

DazMarz

Which is why I watched it on Sky Sports, with the volume down and Whitesnake blaring in the background...:D

kinaldo

I like Keown, he's an improvement on RTE's B-panel.

Matt Cooper though, ffs. He told us the last time that Barca lost a knock-out game was against Chelsea 3-1, but won the return leg 5-4. ''but still went out.''

No Matt, they won 5-4 on aggregate.

I hate the propagation of misinformation. Dunphy does this all the time with his ''knowledge'' of Spanish football. (saying Ronaldo has less goals than he actually has etc.)

newballsplease

MrJoeSoap wrote: »

Anyone have an idea of how much this man gets paid for giving us such insight into tonights game as "Abigail" instead of Abidal, "Puskas" instead of Busquets and saying that Barca need four goals to go through now?

He makes Mark Lawrenson look like Mastermind material.

Seriously though, TV3 have the worst taste in commentators, presenters and pundits. Discuss.

I didnt watch TV3... but did he really say that? did he correct himself or what?

Warper

newballsplease wrote: »

I didnt watch TV3... but did he really say that? did he correct himself or what?

He said that and Cooper corrected him saying thats if Inter score. In fairness I think thats what he meant but he just didnt state it.

JerryHandbag

MrJoeSoap wrote: »

"Abigail" instead of Abidal

I LOLd

Was Mark Lawrenson stoned or sloshed tonight or something.....the most dreadful co-commentary I've ever heard.

Lukker-

At least Keown has some tactical insight into the game which is of actual value. Sure he's never been the smartest egg in the basket but he usually gets it right.

starbelgrade

BREAKING NEWS ON SKY;

"Football pundit mis-pronounces footballers name"


Big swing.

OPENROAD

Martin Keown is an excellent pundit imo, love him on MOTD, and is also a legend, Keown Keown Keown Keown !!!!!!!!

MisterAnarchy

Keown is quite a decent pundit to be fair ,better than most pundits on Sky,ITV and BBC.

Former Great

JerryHandbag wrote: »

I LOLd

Was Mark Lawrenson stoned or sloshed tonight or something.....the most dreadful co-commentary I've ever heard.

The reason it was worse than ever tonight is cos i reckon neither of these two stooges were at the game , more than likely commentating from some room in dublin because of travel restrictions..

Guy:Incognito

Barce would be better off playign someone called abigail.

GLaDOS

I never pay attention to pundits in general. Never watch pre match buil up or post match reaction. I just saw the match, I can think for myself.

Aidric

His gormless expression doesn't help his cause.

kinaldo

ScienceNerd wrote: »

I never pay attention to pundits in general. Never watch pre match buil up or post match reaction. I just saw the match, I can think for myself.

Wow, aren't you the special one!

tony1kenobi

Former Great wrote: »

The reason it was worse than ever tonight is cos i reckon neither of these two stooges were at the game , more than likely commentating from some room in dublin because of travel restrictions..

Now you've said that I thought the crowd noise sounded like a looped recording.

Keown is great though.Big dashing b*stard that guy.

Frisbee

kinaldo wrote: »

Matt Cooper though, ffs. He told us the last time that Barca lost a knock-out game was against Chelsea 3-1, but won the return leg 5-4. ''but still went out.''

No Matt, they won 5-4 on aggregate.

And it cut straight to an ad break and as soon as it returned he corrected himself immediately.

Everyone makes mistakes. At least he noticed and rectified it.

Le King

Or Trever Welsh constantly mixing up Eto'o + Maicon and Sneijder + Cambiasso.

kinaldo

Frisbee wrote: »

And it cut straight to an ad break and as soon as it returned he corrected himself immediately.

Everyone makes mistakes. At least he noticed and rectified it.

Fair enough but I missed the correction and am sure a lot of people switched off as well.

jesus_thats_gre

The quality of football pundits and co-commentators is really starting to get me down. It is one thing having an opinion but virtually everything that they use to back up their argument is completely made up or to put it mildly, delusional.

jesus_thats_gre

Osu wrote: »

Or Trever Welsh constantly mixing up Eto'o + Maicon and Sneijder + Cambiasso.

The worst offenders for this are 3e. It was ****ing Babel that put the ball in the net, not N'Gog!! Then they continue discussing N'Gog despite numerous close ups of Babel and their own graphics showing the correct name.

murpho999

I found Keown ok tonight and was quite good when talking about England's chances in the WC.
Not the usual 'England to win' hype on British channels.

All in all though I can't stand TV3's football coverage.

Matt Cooper is a terrible presenter. Commentary is poor and the sound quality from the stadium is terrible. You could hear nothing from the crowd when goals were scored, had to switch over to Sky.

Former Great

murpho999 wrote: »

I found Keown ok tonight and was quite good when talking about England's chances in the WC.
Not the usual 'England to win' hype on British channels.

All in all though I can't stand TV3's football coverage.

Matt Cooper is a terrible presenter. Commentary is poor and the sound quality from the stadium is terrible. You could hear nothing from the crowd when goals were scored, had to switch over to Sky.

As i said earlier this is because the two bucks were more than likely commentating from some studio in dublin , they werent in milan cos of the travel restrictions id say..

flahavaj

Keown is far far from the worst pundit out there in all fairness. its a bit rich to be slagging him off when he's regularly partnered by Tony f*cking Cascarino.

Cooper also is a decent presenter IMO. His radio show is excellent.