Niall Quinn is worst pundit ever

JimsAlterEgo

Francie Barrett wrote: »

Gary Neville is easily the most annoying man on television.

Stopped reading there, hes widely acknowledged as being one of the best pundits around,being very objective and very knowledgeable. Are you sure you just don't like him?

P_1

Mark Robson has to be by far the worst.

Thankfully he seems to have been banished to Nordie football but he does feature heavily whenever there's an Irish rugby team playing on sky

Francie Barrett

JimsAlterEgo wrote: »

Stopped reading there, hes widely acknowledged as being one of the best pundits around,being very objective and very knowledgeable. Are you sure you just don't like him?

He's an idiot. It was hilarious listening to him go on about how the Man City team were so great before they were smashed to bits by Dortmund.

SirDelboy18

Francie Barrett wrote: »

He's an idiot. It was hilarious listening to him go on about how the Man City team were so great before they were smashed to bits by Dortmund.

Why? Hindsight is a great thing.

Francie Barrett

SirDelboy18 wrote: »

Why? Hindsight is a great thing.

Hindsight? There were several of us on the match thread talking about what a fantastic team that Dortmund had. If unpaid Joe Soap's can see that, why couldn't Gary?

Super-Rush

I have a lot of time for Neville as a pundit but he is woefully bad as a co commentator.

SirDelboy18

Francie Barrett wrote: »

Hindsight? There were several of us on the match thread talking about what a fantastic team that Dortmund had. If unpaid Joe Soap's can see that, why couldn't Gary?

Yes Dortmund had a good team, but to think that they wouldn't be a match for a Man City team that hadn't lost a home game in who knows how long (the F.A Cup to United I think), who were defending PL champs - and taking into account Dortmunds poor start, I think it was very reasonable to suggest Man City would win. With both teams doing awfully last year in the CL, I don't see how he Nev is an idiot for predicting a City win. So yes, hindsight is a wonderful thing.

markc1184

Ronnie Whelan, Pat Dolan and Niall Quinn for me. Hate listening to any of them.

PhlegmyMoses

Francie Barrett wrote: »

Hindsight? There were several of us on the match thread talking about what a fantastic team that Dortmund had. If unpaid Joe Soap's can see that, why couldn't Gary?

Get the lads in the match thread onto the TV.

Also, outright calling people idiots. Are we doing this on here now?

NeVeR

I've turned games off just because of his commentary - Big pile of sh!t

tdv123

Cienciano wrote: »

Mark Lawrenson is the worst imho. Gives no insight into the game at all, just makes terrible puns. Ray Houghton is a close second, and the worst thing about Houghton is he never shuts up

The worst thing about Houghton is that mustache he had on Champions League night a few weeks ago.

ben.schlomo

Lou Macari by a billion miles, hes an angry little man and all that you get is complete out and out negativity from him.

dd972

Pat Dolan by a mile, his accent is pish, you'd think after being here for 20 years he'd have picked up a bit of Irish melodiousness.

ZETOR_IS_BETTER

Absolutely detest hearing niall quinn on sky. Adds nothing to the commentary.

(dont get me wrong, like what he did while playing but he is hopeless at commentating )

JPA

Lawrenson is the worst simply because he seems to hate his job and everybody else.

Iang87

For me you'd have lou macari, mark bright, niall quinn.

The worst pundit/commentary/prick with vocal chords I ever had the misfortune hearing is that Paddy Crerand. Can sometimes hear him on different things but by god he is so one sided its an embarrassment to both sides

Rekop dog

Sir Alex Ferguson wrote: »

I have a lot of time for Neville as a pundit but he is woefully bad as a co commentator.

Woeful is way over the top. Not as natural as his punditry but still provides decent insight.

DB21

Mike Summerbee deserves a mention. His blind City bias was hilarious and pathetic at the same time.

Damien360

JPA wrote: »

Lawrenson is the worst simply because he seems to hate his job and everybody else.

He is terrible grumpy on match of the day 2. Mind you, the northy irish dude wreaks my head also. You can almost feel the hatred for the presenter coming from Lawro.

He was not on the last night and I prefered MOTD2 with the Xmas replacement host. Even Gabby was a nice change on Match of the day 1 over the Xmas. A change of hosts might sort out the format and putting Gabby in would be my first choice.

GLaDOS

JimsAlterEgo wrote: »

Stopped reading there, hes widely acknowledged as being one of the best pundits around,being very objective and very knowledgeable. Are you sure you just don't like him?

I like Neville as a pundit, but find him horrendously biased towards English teams in Europe, really off putting.

Red Crow

I really don't like listening to Craig Burley, Pat Crerand, Alan Green, Trevor Welch, Mark Lawrenson as commentators. I have a special hatred for Ian Darke, Niall Quinn and Steve McManaman who have to be the worst.

As for pundits Phil Thompson is by far and away the worst pundit on television. I find myself disagreeing with most of what he says. Paul Merson isn't far behind either and Jeff Stelling is useless too. Also dislike the usuals like Jamie Redknapp, Dwight Yorke, Mike Bitterbee etc.

There are very few that I enjoy listening too. As presenters I only like a few guys: James Richardson, Bill and Jake Humphrey (F1). As for pundits I like Gary Neville, Didi Hamann and Souness.

As for commentators I think Tim Caple and Clive Tyldesley are the best football commentators by a mile.

Damien360

Eli Manning wrote: »

I really don't like listening to Craig Burley, Pat Crerand, Alan Green, Trevor Welch, Mark Lawrenson as commentators. I have a special hatred for Ian Darke, Niall Quinn and Steve McManaman who have to be the worst.

As for pundits Phil Thompson is by far and away the worst pundit on television. I find myself disagreeing with most of what he says. Paul Merson isn't far behind either and Jeff Stelling is useless too. Also dislike the usuals like Jamie Redknapp, Dwight Yorke, Mike Bitterbee etc.

There are very few that I enjoy listening too. As presenters I only like a few guys: James Richardson, Bill and Jake Humphrey (F1). As for pundits I like Gary Neville, Didi Hamann and Souness.

As for commentators I think Tim Caple and Clive Tyldesley are the best football commentators by a mile.

You really hold a grudge :D:D

Easy Rod

The problem with Quinn is that he only speaks in footballing cliches and most of the time they're mixed metaphors.

dd972

He's pretty sickly on that one to one show with Gay Byrne describing his pollyanna existence explaining how he used to go out on all night benders with the boys at Man City and almost threw it all away ( read that as six pints, a snack box and a minicab home ), how ex model Gillian waltzed into his life ( like she would if he wasn't a famous footballer ) and how some herbert came up to him and gave him a 250K punt cheque out of the blue for a nag.

Gbear

Merson is a genuine simpleton. He can barely speak. He is not intelligent enough to merit having any job that involves talking on TV.

Lawrenson, Whelan, Burley and Dolan are all also worse than Quinn. They're far more ignorant and Whelan is a snide sarcastic git to boot.

Even mentioning Neville in this thread is utterly laughable. He's one of the very few competent pundits on TV.

dd972

On pundits what about Phil Thompson on Gilette Soccer Saturday

''AAARRGHHH, OMG ! OMG !''

''Quick, over to Phil !''

''Wigan have just got a throw in at Reading''

ElChe32

Niall Quinn is totally lobstromnous.

eugeneious

Steve Staunton was a pundit for the BBC during one of the Ireland EURO 2012 games and he was asked what he would tell the players at half time if were the manager and he actually said he'd tell them to "have more quality." Woeful punditry. The sad thing is he was probably actually saying things like that while Ireland manager.