[quote=“Chicken George”]IOTM Alert!!!
You don’t start on a double playing 501
You do on 301, he was 100% correct in explaining, maybe you should have listened to him.[/quote]
Did you watch the recent Grand Prix Chickenman?
Mark / Marc Robson on the Rugby match today
“Darkness descends here in Dublin, but Leinster have seen the light this evening”
Shocking stuff
Just listening to Sunday Sport on RTE on the way back up from home there. They had a reporter on some hockey match who was commenting on an eight minute hat-trick scored by some bird called Dara Delaney.
Dara Delaney - it sounds like a motoring name and she is certainly motoring today!
What t’fuck?
Ronnie O’Sullivan beat Liang Wenbo and as is usual for BBC coverage he strolls into the studio to give his reaction to Hazel, Steve and John. It went something like: “I was that bad people might have thought i was doing an Ebdon. It looked like i was trying to lose the game.” (a reference to a recent game where Ebdon lost 5-0 against Wenbo which is being investigated due to irregular betting patterns - i.e. a shedload of money going that exact result.) Cue a serious tumbleweed rolling across the studio.
Going back a few years to the 2005 All-Ireland final here. Philip Jordan of Tyrone burst through to score the clinching point. Ger Canning’s response was “Jordan scores! Jordan the player and not the model, but he’s a model player”.
George Hamilton the other night during the Ireland-Cyprus game made a stupid comment regarding the “colourcoding” of the jackets of the Irish management according to nationality - Trapattoni and Tardelli were wearing blue (navy really) coats while Brady had a green one on.
Listening to some scouser journalist dude on LFCTV last night discussing Liverpool’s problems at full back.
‘I mean I know Riise hadn’t a good season for a while but he would still lace Dossena’s boots’.
First of all Riise was one of the worst players in the history of the club and Dossena still has a long way to go to be as bad.
Secondly – what kind of expression is that?
Anybody hear the lady reporting on the Villareal match on RTE last night. She discribed Rossi’s goal as being “drilled to the net”
I would have described it as “a deflected side foot which looped over the keeper”.
[quote=“The Runt”]Anybody hear the lady reporting on the Villareal match on RTE last night. She discribed Rossi’s goal as being “drilled to the net”
I would have described it as “a deflected side foot which looped over the keeper”.[/quote]
Yep, heard that - twas Joanne Cantwell. Also send another one of the goals was a pomb finish. What the fuck??
That was “Aplomb” finish Mac.
Ah right, always thought it should be “finished with aplomb” rather than “an aplomb finish” though. Then again my English is shite so what do I know?!
I noticed Joanne Cantwell’s ‘drilled finish’ comment last night too and it’s something that’s somewhat of a pet hate of mine with commentators! There’s loads of ways to describe goals but get it fooking right.
For example, I would consider Manchester United’s goals last night to be - 1. Berbatov: deft flick; 2. Berbatov: poked home; 3. Rooney: struck/slid accurately.
You can also use:
shot, slammed, thumped, flashed, crashed, curled, bent, headed, clipped, slipped, chipped, flicked, hammered, rolled, flighted, forced, scrambled, banged, blasted, drilled, lashed, fired, pinged, rammed, nudged and some others too.
It annoys me when some player neatly curls a ball into the top corner and some clown like Cantwell describes it as a blast or something.
One from Andy Gray earlier today after Ronaldo missed the chance for United straight after Arsenal’s second goal:
‘That was a great chance to level up the game. I know the score wouldn’t be level but surely it would only be a matter of time.’
Jimmy Magee in the Liverpool game:- “Arbeloa sticks it in the cobwebs” and “Liverpool are home and wet”
Martin Keown there on the Man City Spurs game:
‘Huddlestone assumed a quarter back role for Tottenham’
Hang on a second - Tottenham are an association football team right?
The commentator on the Galway Utd. v Finn Harps game the other night (don’t know his name)
“That was a real meat, spuds & two veg tackle there by so and so”
First of all I’ve never heard of this phrase being used to describe a tackle, secondly when the fuck did spuds become part of it
Ive heard the term meat and two veg used to describe a tackle alright, just not the type of tackle this mug was talking about.
Was watching the Championship Round up on Sky there and they had Neil Warnock as the Guest analyst. They were reviewing the Reading game and Kevin Doyle scoring his 50th for the club. They commented on his celebration where he flashed his fingers up 4 times to the crowd and then pointed. Presenter laughed that “that only adds up to 42 doesn’t it Neil?”
Warnock replies-"Yeah, but you have to remember he is Irish.
What the?
[quote=“Pikeman”]Was watching the Championship Round up on Sky there and they had Neil Warnock as the Guest analyst. They were reviewing the Reading game and Kevin Doyle scoring his 50th for the club. They commented on his celebration where he flashed his fingers up 4 times to the crowd and then pointed. Presenter laughed that “that only adds up to 42 doesn’t it Neil?”
Warnock replies-"Yeah, but you have to remember he is Irish.
What the?[/quote]
you have to remember pikeman it is neil warnock…
Well said.
i got a text saying dunphy was on drivetime & said Traps position was untenable:p