Best and worst soccer pundits commentators analysts journalists

The European football show panel of journo's are the best on TV which are prettu much The Football Weekly podcast guys.

I think Rory K Smith is the best newspaper journo.

Pundits on pod's that I like at Troy Townsend & Nedum Onuocha on Football Weekly which is also a fun pod.

I hate the clickbate pundits that Sky have turned Neville & Carra & Keane & Richards into.

BT's main over price pundits are terrible lead by the woeful Jake Humphrey.

I actually like Chris Sutton on the radio.

Due to the misfortune of hearing him today, Don Goodman really cements his place as top tier awful

Keano is probably the best pundit.

Andy Brassell is excellent for European content. I enjoy listening to Phillipe Auclair, Barry Glendinning and Jim Campbell off the top of my head.

As for ex-footballers, Shearer is quite good. Le Saux and Robbie Earle aren't too bad either. Ones who shouldn't be let near a TV: Dwight Yorke, Richie Dunne, Stephen Kelly and Patrice Evra all spring to mind.

It’s easier to write a list of the better ones than the awful ones.

all of BT and Sky are woeful, although I haven’t heard from him in ages, Davie Provan is an excellent co-commentator. Doesn’t push any narrative, calls it as he sees it.

NBCSN tend to use Carragher, Henry and Richards as studio pundits and my social media feed shows clips of them over and over again but it’s almost always Henry refusing to answer a question which really negates the point of him being there.

oh and yer one Aluko, abysmal. Her agent is a genius though.

The way the game moves so quickly I’m think pundits should be refreshed every few seasons.

Journalist wise, if Miguel Delaney was chocolate he’d eat himself.

The old Gillette Soccer Saturday panel was the best , Jeff and Chis , rubbish now except for Jeff , the best host possible - the old Irish panel with Bill , Eamon and Giles were great - Today Keane, Souness and Richie are the best - Micah was funny when he first arrived, but killing a joke now.

Vast majority of on TV pundits are crap I find. It's trying to find the best of a bad bunch.

Carragher is listenable on MNF, but nothing else. Neville likewise, but on a lower level as these days he is more interested in soapbox'ing his whole 'independent regulator' angle. they are terrible in commentary. Nevile only thinks one team is playing. Himself & Tyler together are a pain. Carragher is almost too impartial at times and too scared to call games as they should be, out of fear of further outrage. He does get excited after goals though. MNF is heavily scripted, with a large team of researchers and analysts who did the actual work. So basically it's just about who is reading out the lines. Micah is a joke and Keane is playing a character. All the lads on BT are a waste of time and luckily don't have to watch Danny Murphy as much as we used to.

Liam Roseinger used to be on Sky and was great, especially at lower levels. Actually put the work in too. Alex Scott knows her stuff too, as does Lisa Fallon on RTE who is a highly qualified coach in both the men's and women's game. More so than most on TV. I have a soft spot for Brian Kerr. He knows an awful lot about the sport that gets missing because of his accents and confuses some names sometimes.

Dan McDonnell- if he didn’t exist I would know a s***load less about the game in Ireland (and that’s my main concern). I can’t say that about any other football talking head.

Lisa Fallon by far the best in this country at the moment,

Carragher & Gary Nev aren't great pundits but they can breaks down tactics and analyse where the game is being won & lost very well,

Kenny Cunningham the worst iv ever seen

I do like Fallon & Sadlier, then Kerr & Keane for entertainment,

Keane is perfect for calling it how it is

Neville was extremely good until they paired him up with Carragher, then it went from deep dive analysis to shallow banter every week.

Its been a good few years now so people probably forget, but at one stage after Neville started Monday night football was almost essential viewing. All because it was one pundit with time to articulate the points they were trying to make.

Maybe in time Neville would have morphed into the football justice warrior anyway, but something really was lost when they made that change to bring Carragher in beside him.

Most of what Sky and BT offer up as pundits are woeful, with Merson, Richards and Rio been the worst of the whole lot. Neville and Carragher are decent when it comes to tactical discussions and how teams set up etc, but unfortunately lately Sky only want sound bites and click bait headlines from them! So the tactical talks that they became known for when they first arrived on our screens are now less and less.

Keane is good for entertainment value, but doesn't add a whole lot outside of criticizing players for not running enough or working harder.

Commentary, the list is long but, Ronnie Whelan, Martin Tyler, McManaman and Ray Houghton are especially terrible.

Souness and Keane can only critique a team based on work-rate and attitude, rarely can they add any tactical analysis, both can be entertaining but never teach you anything you didn't already know.

Brian Kerr is still miles above everyone else.

I wouldn't get into the high brow stuff myself too much so here goes:

Terrible:

Stephens Kelly, Ronnie Whelan, Miccah Richards, Rio, Michael Owen. Anyone who uses the term "We was" (Tim Sherwood).

Ones who I find good are

Jermiane Jenas, Alan Shearer and surprisingly Kenny Cunningham has grown even though he made a fool of himself after we were beat by Luxembourg at home.

What gates on my nerves are the gender quotas and inclusion thing going on lately. Lisa Fallon, sue smith and Karen Carney for example are only there for one reason and I think it's insulting to people paying a subscription and to the ladies themselves. They just aren't up to the job but that could never be said though.

Giles at his peak was the best for me, he long overstayed his welcome though and offered little in his last few years. Like others I liked Neville when he first moved into TV but ever since his successful soapbox campaign against the super league he's kind of lost the plot. Pretty much everyone on BT Sport is thick as shít.