Watched the match last night on the redbutton/iplayer of Sheffield Utd v Bristol City.
Thought Jonathan Pearce commentary was excellent full of enthusiasm, information and the odd occasional observational joke. The female co commentator (ex goalkeeper?) was a perfect foil. Name escapes me.
This guy knows football and you can tell.
Sky must get rid of Keane and Sourness as pundits they are awful.

Pearce really grates on me to be honest. I don’t mind Darren Fletcher on BT. Obviously none are anywhere near Chandy.

Peter Drury.

Pearce knows his stuff, interesting hearing him trotting out the old Sheff U names, just his voice grates on me a bit , maybe its an age thing, but whiney voices annoy me. The commentator on Barnsley v Chelsea I liked last night, Guy Mowbray. Karen Bardsley was probably the co commetator last night Bluestreak. Souness knows his stuff and I like him, but Keane is just too blunt and direct, and just intimidates those working with him, him and Souness are a terrible pairing, it really is jobs for the boys at times.

What do you think of Alex Scott? I like her, football and personality wise.

for me they are all a much of a muchness for me. as for keane and souness they may know all about the game but so do hundreds of other retired players and managers who could do a better job given the chance. its more about having a name rather than the ability to actually do the job.

Goes on in life, but think football is the worst for toadiness. Just reading a book, where a Chairman says to his manager, he has had a phone call from ...... a former manager himself, asking if his son could come for a trial. The manager in order not to upset his Chairman gives him a trial , and then fobs player on trial off with the usual, you are okay, but no better than what we already have, goodbye and good luck.

A couple of weeks later the lads dad, the former manager, rings the Chairman , and asks if he could be manager, the Chairman replied " we already have a manager" to which former manager replies " ok, but if things change you know where I am ".

I think this sums up the game perfectly. Insecure, full of sycophants andf back stabbers. If you want to get on, you need to be pissing up someones back, that is more important than how good at the job you are

Alex Scott is canny, knows as much as any of the other ex-footballers she sits on TV panel's with. Long time favourite of mine is Chris Waddle on the radio.

Much nearer to home, I've enjoyed Evan Horwood's contributions to the last couple of home streams. As daft as a brush and funny with it - but his comments on Pool's general play are always interesting. From stuff he's said about Mick Wadsworth's League One side, they were obviously hard as nails and happy to mix it the opposition - not a problem with the likes of Paul Murray, Peter Hartley, Andy Monkhouse, Gary Liddle and Neil Austin in the side. Quite a contrast with some of the feeble defenders and midfielders we've had in the recent past. Evan is happy with the current back five!

Other than Tees, rarely listen to football on the radio these days, but when I did, Waddle came across very well, and I know many people feel the same as yourself about him.

Evan seem okay, but pools commentary I find laughable compared to other clubs. Hopefully in time it will improve. I'm sure there are many who like it the way it is, I am old skool, I like to commentary to be professional not the not jokey, like 2 blokes down the pub sort of delivery, that's not to say you can't have a bit of a laugh, but there are ways of doing it., Eddie Kyle is an ideal co commentator on Tees, though even there anchormen leave a lot to be desired.

Wadsworths side looking back, do look nails, they had to be , as the opposition were more often than not even harder. League 1 and the Championship are the league of US Marines, though things are changing.The game has to be going through a transitional period at the moment, with rule changes and the culmination of years of coaching kids to play possession based football now coming to fruition, with players seemingly struggling to adjust. You still need to be strong and have desire, but not really sure you could get away with the edginess shown by some of the players in the past. The game has really changed in the last 5 years or so.

Ah yes Karen Beardsley. Like Alex Jones a good pundit.

John Motson n his classic fur coat.

I prefer Alex Jones when she’s on the one show (this joke could actually be shit because Alex Scott also presents the one show)

He said best commentator...

Scott i meant ha ha

Always liked Pearce because robot wars.

So glad no one has mentioned Martin Tyler, heavily overrated.

Lot of black ex-footballers getting the expert summariser gig these days, which is only fair because there are a lot of black ex-Premier League footballers. Micah Richards and Rio Ferdinand are ok.

The thing I am completely done with is Match of the Day cutting 90 minutes of football down to 7-8 minutes of highlights and then some droning tosser (Shearer's not even the worst) doing 3 minutes of 'analysis' of one player's contribution, with dotted lines and other graphics. Boring as hell. Pack it in and show more of the game!

The best expert summariser IMO is that lad on EFL Quest, and I think he is only a fan, which tells you something. As always whether black or white its about who you know, who you suck up to, or having an agent who you can pay to do for you.

might be lucky to get 7 or 8 minutes of highlights in some of the games. even so i,d rather watch a few more minutes of boring football than the prattling on about tactics and analysis after the game. everyone here see a pools game differently but at least we do not all sing from the same song book which makes the bunker far more interesting than tele pundits.

The premier league seems to be a completely different sport as to one we used to watch at the Vic.

Var this, penalty that, midweek games almost daily. The football shown on TV doesn't scratch my football withdrawal at all.

Massively over hyped. Don't know what has happened with top level goalkeepers this season, may as well have Ben Killip playing for Spurs tonight, why pay 100k a week when a keeper on 1k a week could make the same mistakes, never known the standard to be so poor.

Jonathan Pearce is a Crystal Palace supporter and was livid when Andy Saville scored the penalty that beat them in the FA cup a few years ago, he called it "the penalty from hell".

thats why clubs see its compulsory to have a goalkeeping coach nowadays that seem to have started this dearth of good keepers. gordon banks somehow forged a good career without one as well as a performance coach, diatician, strength and conditioning coach etc. next will be club hairdressers, fashion coaches and piblic media coaches for players to help em with their facebook accounts and even more benal interviews when they sign for clubs.

Making a simple game complicated = more jobs for the boys = higher admission prices = more money = more jobs for the boys. Ross Turnbull goalkeeping coach aged 36 Jake Kean goalkeeping coach age 30

The only good thing about this , is that it keep people in work, which putting football to one side for a moment is something I believe in and want to see, as there really aren't enough jobs to go around these days, but it does make you think. Years ago one man the trainer, practically did all these jobs, coaching, physio, strength and conditioning, diet and nutrition, running the reserves. The modern game has created thousands of 10 hour a week non jobs , with many ex players seemingly doing 3 or 4 of these type of jobs in order to earn a living.

Still no edit facility I see I want to add, granted the game is more professional now, certainly at the top, but at our level?

Yes what's happened to the editor? Is it in Covid19 isolation, on a sabattical, on its own private island or has it been kidnapped by ISIS?

It was disabled in the admin panel. I didn't lock it on purpose but sometimes changing one thing can have a knock on effect. Apologies, fixed now I believe

Great news Mr I may will sleep well tonight.

Many i mean.

you need an assistant with another to assist the assistants.

if by being more professional it certainly has not made the game more entertaining. bit like the cinema where the multy million dollar padded out film has far less entertainment value than some 75 minute one made on a small budget and done in a week.

Yeah right ! Heard it all before

Mr and Mrs Potato had 3 daughters. 1 st Daughter asked to marry a King Edward and the parents agreed as a bit blue blood in the family would look good in front of the neighbours. 2nd daughter asked to marry a Jersey Royal, the request was granted for the same reason. The 3rd daughters request was denied as Dickie Davies was a commontater!!!!!!

The bloke commentating at Torquay v Pools on Tees yesterday from local to the game due to Covid restrictions. Comedic value in repeatedly getting players names wrong and a couple of loud belches mid sentence.

Think there was an odd fart too.

I nearly pissed myself laughing at those last two comments !
I listened to Alex on mixlr & that was pretty bizarre, as you could hear the commentary from the Torquay guys in the background , as the tele was obviously turned up too high. Managed to subdue it a bit in the second half & to be fair, did a pretty good job in the end. I can't get Tees DAB feed , unfortunately, but would love to have heard that lot ! Presumably it was BBC Devon's commentary ?

Yes a Scotsman on radio Devon when i was expecting the local farmer complete with Daisy his favourite cow mooing in the background.

Its not Mixlr - its straight from BBC sport National League - Radio Tees and I'm enjoying the foreign (down south) commentpotatoes nearly as much as I'm enjoying the points tally.

Alex Scott is good. She always brings a smile to my face.

Hacker the dog did a good World Cup commentary a number of years back, which I enjoyed immensely.

Jonathan Pierce, awful hyperbole.