Just me, or did he actually say something to the effect of (okay, I'd had a couple...): "He might be called Abbadanzeri, but he only made his debut when he was 31."? And if the spelling of his name is even in the right ballpark I'll shove a hedgehog up my arse. Again.
He Also Said.. "Rooney running with the ball there, much like Michael Owen did in St.Etienne, do you remember Graeme?" Firstly, I know Graeme Le Saux is a moron but I'm sure he'd remember that goal. Secondly, I think every player ran with the ball during the game, why pick out that particular moment? It was nothing like it. I think Motsons a dreadful commentator, alongside a dreadful pundit.
RE: Will it be the same hedgehog????!!!! I was worried that there may have been a full blown relationship starting!
Motty used to be good. He's now a parody of himself. Spittimg Image couldn't do him justice. Graham (Graeme?) le Saux? Joke. Say something opinionated. Just once. That's all I ask from him. Never going to happen.
RE: Will it be the same hedgehog????!!!! I had a joke with the words 'prickly' and 'spine''. But I've forgotten it. So, do me a favour. Think of something funny with the self-same words in the punchline, then vote for me in next year's Blogscars on the strength of it. 'Laziest ex-funny BBS-er' category. Summat like that.
RE: Will it be the same hedgehog????!!!! I had a number of prickly comments lined up , but started to lose the will to live when I considered posting them!! Hedgehog tastes like something between chicken and pheasant, tastier than chicken but not as gamey as pheasant.
RE: He Also Said.. His best one had to be the ramble after Owen's first goal along the lines of "And that gives Owen the record for goals scored in competitive matches..........but this isn't a competitive match so we can't give him the record"!
Rubbish Watching an England match without the voice of Barry Davies isnt right. The wrong guy retired.</p>
John Motson got far too excited for his own good yesterday. God knows what the commentary will be like if we get to the World Cup Final.
I think everyone got over-excited. Motson, the players, the crowd, everyone. That said, it was good to see a friendly international being played at more than half-pace. I also liked the fact that Sven didn't make his usual eight million substitutions at half-time.
Garth Crooks is worse He interviews people as if speaking to a hard-of-hearing foreigner. He has an ego the size of the planet. He delivers the simplest question with an absurdly portentous air designed to draw attention to what he imagines to be his fabulous intellect. He speaks as if delivering the Sermon on the Mount. He has made a fine art of frowning and nodding as though contemplating the finer points of the theory of relativity. It is more informative to switch off the box and listen to silence. A couple of his quotes: 1. Crooks: “You scored twice in the first half, you HAD a two goal lead, they SCORED three times in the second half. Where do you think you lost the game ?” Mick McCarthy: “In the second half” 2. "Football's football: if that weren't the case it wouldn't be the game that it is."
