2009 - Ridiculous Sport Commentator, Pundit and Journalist Quotes

Culture
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Will Greenwood describing a tackle

An absolute jackal of a tackle

WTF does that mean?

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[quote=“myboyblue”]Will Greenwood describing a tackle

WTF does that mean?[/quote]
that the player was on the run and the tackler couldn’t catch him?

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We need a 2010 thread…

Well they were raving about Messi last night, but you’ve gotta give Darron Gibson credit"

  • RTE commentator George Hamilton
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The way Trevor Welsh was pronouncing Lionel Messi the other night was brutal.

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The Dunphy files, courtesy of dangerhere.com

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The on-again/off-again Ronaldo fatwa:

“A puffball.” “Will never be a player as long as he has a hole in his arse.”

“I couldn’t have been more wrong about Cristiano Ronaldo. “In the history of the game, I can’t remember another winger who has been so prolific in front of goal.”

“What they saw tonight was an impersonator, a clown,a self-indulgent idiot really, doing crazy things. He’s a petulant brat Bill, poncing around all night.”

“We have to reassess Ronaldo’s reputation. Increasingly, he looks like the real deal.”

“Ronaldo is a disgrace… a disgrace to professional football… this fella is a cod.”

Rio Ferdinand

“A bad character, mentally slow” “A tramp”

” Ferdinand is a clown. He was a liability for the first goal and he is always a liability. It was Jan Vennegoor of
Hesselink against Rio Ferdinand of Barclays Bank.”

Liam Brady

“He is often looked on as a great player. He is nothing of the kind. His performance on Wednesday was a disgrace, a monument to conceit adorned with vanity and self-indulgence, rendered all the more objectional by the swagger of his gait.”

“You jumped the fence, baby.”

Giovanni Trapattoni

“A drunken gambler in the casino throwing chips on the table.”

“Taking off Kevin Doyle was lunatic asylum stuff.”

Niall Quinn

“Niall Quinn is a creep. The man’s an idiot, a Mother Theresa.”

Kevin Kilbane

“Kilbane’s head is better than his feet. If only he had three heads, one on the end of each leg.”

John Hartson

“That is not the arse of a seven million pound player.”

Harry Kewell

“Kewell should have been yanked off the pitch at half time and put in a hot bath, a boiling hot bath.”

“He’s fat and a clown, Bill, a fat clown for all to see.”

Luis Garcia

“They should put Garcia where he belongs, in the dustbin.”

Djibril Cisse

“Here we have Cisse, right wing, attempts to put in a cross. Bang, he hits the full back. Bang, he hits the full back again. Bang, off the full back again. And once more, bang, smacks the full back again. Millions of euro and he can’t clear the first man. I mean, what’s he trying to do to the full back here? Kill him?”

Steven Gerrard

“Found out. A nothing player.”

Mick McCarthy

“A congenital loser.”

“He’s one of the biggest whingers in world football… he’s a bloody eejit.”

Steve Staunton

“Would you let him drive the train to Cork?”

Terry Venables

“This man’s CV is riddled with failure and worse than failure.”

Bayern Munich

“Well, I don’t like to make outlandish statements. Not all the time. But Wimbledon would have beaten them 10-0.”

Match of the Day

“They just talk drivel. Whoever is winning is great, whoever isn’t, isn’t. It’s banal. And also semi-literate at times … they never criticise in an intelligent way. Anything that isn’t banal is said to be an outburst. They’ve created this cartoon world where everyone talks like Lineker and says nothing.”

“You have to wonder about these clowns.”

Liverpool 4 Chelsea 4

“It was like two drunks in a back alley throwing punches at each other.”

Bill O’Herlihy

“You are Alf, Bill.”

Jose Mourinho

“We’ll all see through Mourinho. We’ll find out he’s just a bengal lancer.”

“Mourinho, he’s poisonous”

Rod Liddle

“He’s the guy who ran away and left his wife for a young one”.

Michel Platini

“Not a great player.”

Maradona

“Not a great player.”

Zinedine Zidane

“Not a great player.”

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Keyes looking at the betting for the top 3 of the Premier League turns around to Paul Merson and says

“Merse, this is something you have previous with, where would you be putting your money in the past?”

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Scot Minto on Vela’s goal for Arsenal on Sunday on Football First

“Just like Messi there how he chipped that over. Him showing that anything Messi can do he can do better”.

What the fuck?!

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I don’t think there’s a thread dedicated to games/hobbies so I’ll throw this into the sport thread. Butch Harmon on Sky Sports last night:

‘Phil Mickelson’s got a great way with the galleries. He’s always waving and acknowledging them and giving his balls to the kids’.

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Can’t find the current thread.
Commentator on spurs match:
That’ll take the steam out of his sails :lol:

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Bernard Flynn was in fine form on the radio today commentating on Longford and Offaly. Some chap that was taken off for Longford was their tallysman. Longford missed a penalty and Bernard proclaimed that it was a game changer, a ballbreaker. Offaly won’t look forward to playing Westmeath, because Westmeath will have their gander up.

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His use of “onion bag” rots me hole.

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He used that today.

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Oh I heard.

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Cyril was in great form tonight.

He informed us that Wexford had a few forwards that “could cause trouble” without sayiing where.

Outside Superman’s looked the likeliest to me based on the 2nd half return.

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They did play like they’d been exposed to kryptonite in the dressing room.