No surprises here...

[Treebeard]

The punditry reaches a new low. On Sky after the Villa game one of the major talking points was why Rafa doesn't smile when we score. Then they had an ex player on to interview him and all they asked him was, 'What do you make of Rafas body language when we score.'

Like Lemmings Setanta went on about it on their Football Matters show last night. This morning there are articles in a number of newspapers following the same line. Expect to see more of this in the coming days and weeks.

I hope the rumors are true about Sky Shaking up their football coverage and punditry at the end of this season - supposedly Keys and Gray are gone.

I cancelled my Setanta sub at the weekend. I only took it out as they seem to show a fair amount of Arse games but the punditry for the Hull FA Cup game went as low as they could go.

I've been tempted to cancel my Sky Sports sub as well and make do but if they are shaking things up then I'll see what happens. At the moment it can't get any worse and they really need to offload the likes of Keyes and Redknapp. It would be nice to have some unbiased, passionate people on there but I'm not holding my breath.

One of the best recently was having Fat Sam on Goals on Sunday and not mentioning the Diouf tackle or Pedersen dive.

For all time worse pundits though it has to be Garth Crooks. I've seen him on the verge of childish tantrums and tears before in exchanges with Lee Dixon.

 

[Agravaine]

Garth Crooks is an utter cock.

You can see Fat Sam has done a sterling job of moulding Phil Brown

 

[Janie]

Garth Crooks is an utter cock.

You can't deny there is a certain entertainment factor to him though. Sure you laugh at him not with him, but at least he's (unintensional) amusing; the dramatic pauses, the over excited noises, the sulking on Final Score.

 

[Anubis]

You can't deny there is a certain entertainment factor to him though. Sure you laugh at him not with him, but at least he's (unintensional) amusing; the dramatic pauses, the over excited noises, the sulking on Final Score.

I couldn't agree more, but at least he does not come over as a Man Utd fan, just a tad pro Tottenham. Understandable, but a good pundit would not be as blatant.

David Pleat is just bad at everything he's ever done. And he's also pro Tottenham... something in common with our garth there.

Top 5 worst managers in recent times, in no order:
Bryan Robson, Graeme Souness, Ron Atkinson, David Pleat and Bryan Robson. He was doubly bad...

 

[Sorontar]

I cannot understand why people pay for Setanta over here when they show much better games on Setanta US and Canada and other foreign channels.

Yeah the piccy is far from perfect and sometimes it's a toil getting the streams but I get to watch the matches I want every week.

I certainly don't miss Sky Sports or Setanta.

 

[Agravaine]

Which streaming software do you use?

I used to use streams but every client I tried ended up not working after a while.

 

[Ky]

There is nothing funny about Garth Crooks. I never watch Final Score because he might be on it. He's a grade 'A' cock of the 1st order. If I saw him on the other side of the streeet I'd cross the road to slap him. Yes, slap him, because its more emasculating. The twat.

 

[Janie]

How manly of you, careful you don't break a nail

-100000 man points.

 

[Ky]

Look up emasculating in the dictionary.

 

[Sorontar]

Which streaming software do you use?

I used to use streams but every client I tried ended up not working after a while.

I mainly use SopCast or a webcast but look at http://www.freefootball.org/ as there are a lot of options on there.

Watching the 1500 kick off matches ftw

 

[Janie]

Look up emasculating in the dictionary.

I not sure how you tie this in with a man slapping another man, unless you want people to think you are a homosexual couple who have had a lovers tiff. May i suggest you add in 'How could you, you bitch! and with Ray Stubbs' when throwing the slap for effect.

 

[Ky]

May I suggest you stop being dim or deliberately obtuse. Its a ridiculous request I know and it'll never happen but I live in hope.

 

[Janie]

Sorry but the whole man slapping another man sounds outragiously camp to me. Maybe it's a London thing

 

[Rochdale]

I've never seen a man slap another man, but I did read about it on the internet, and it's a very manly thing to do from what I read.

 

[Janie]

I've never seen a man slap another man, but I did read about it on the internet, and it's a very manly thing to do from what I read.

Ky has a blog?

 

[Rochdale]

I don't know, I'll see if there is something I can read on the internet to tell me if Ky has a blog or not

 

[Janie]

Did God create the interweb?

 

[Flight]

Keep rolling son.

Top acting from Ben Arfa; he can't decide if he is injured in the throat or the leg, though.