{"id":839,"date":"2021-09-17T10:07:48","date_gmt":"2021-09-17T10:07:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.30yardsniper.co.uk\/?p=839"},"modified":"2021-09-17T10:09:10","modified_gmt":"2021-09-17T10:09:10","slug":"5-live-commentator-pundit-review","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.30yardsniper.co.uk\/?p=839","title":{"rendered":"5 live commentator\/pundit review"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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New season, and isn’t great to have fans back? I know we keep saying it, but isn’t it great? Great to have the fans back, it’s great. Haven’t you missed fans? Isn’t it great to have them back? Anyway here’s a few thoughts on some of the 5 live broadcast team.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

John Murray: <\/strong>For me, the best commentator around. One of the very few of the modern-era that isn\u2019t trying to get himself over, but is confident in his own voice and style and brings everything to life perfectly. Amiable and friendly, without degenerating too far into bantz~! <\/em>mode. Happily slides up and down the friendliness scale between \u201ccordial\u201d and \u201cchummy\u201d depending on who he\u2019s working with.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Michael Brown:<\/strong> Seems to immediately lose track of what he\u2019s saying immediately after he starts speaking. Waffles on for hours without really making a point about anything. Speaks entirely in rote-learned soundbites that often contradict each other. Does the Alan Smith extendy-voice-growl thing when describing something, e.g. \u201cHe gets the ball, and driiiives<\/em> into the box.\u201d Doesn\u2019t seem to understand anything about anything, but enjoys games with lots of fouling.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Alistair Bruce-Ball:<\/strong> Here are the teams, A. Player left out, I wonder how that\u2019ll affect your fantasy football team? B. Player hasn\u2019t scored for 4 games, have you taken him out of your fantasy football team? The referee today is C. Unit, he\u2019s usually good when you\u2019ve got D. Player as captain in your fantasy football team. Oh, there\u2019s been two goals and a red card in the time I\u2019ve been talking about fantasy football, hopefully they\u2019ll be good news for your fantasy football team, let me just find out who was involved\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Clinton Morrison:<\/strong> An enjoyable ex-pro perspective. Good chemistry with most of the lads, especially Murray and Steve Crossman. Comparatively sane and stoic against the likes of Savage and Sutton. Ends 70% of his sentences with \u201cat this precise moment\u201d, which sounds like it should be annoying but isn\u2019t because he\u2019s too endearing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Conor McNamara: <\/strong>Bit too obviously a Man Utd fan for my liking. Tries a bit too hard to be eloquent for no reason and it makes some passages of play sound a bit choppy. Does the thing where he\u2019ll hand over to the analyst by saying their full name to end a sentence, which makes it sound like he\u2019s trying to drop them in it for something. \u201cChance wasted by Nicolas Pepe there, and two packets of hobnobs have gone missing from the kitchen, Mark Lawrenson.\u201d [RADIO GLARING]<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Karen Carney: <\/strong>Knows her shit. Good analysis of matches and avoids the shock-jock wankery of some of her peers. Sent football twitter into meltdown by opining that the COVID-enforced break of the 2019-20 season might have benefitted Leeds promotion bid. (I mean, is it that<\/em> unreasonable an opinion)? Social media target because she\u2019s a woman covering football and it makes certain men feel very threatened. Seems to hate Arsenal \ud83d\ude41<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Alistair Bruce-Ball: <\/strong>I actually quite like him, he’s good at quickly describing the action but in a way that doesn’t feel rushed. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Chris Sutton: <\/strong>A man who is very much tired of London. Everything is marginally disappointing in his eyes. Constantly mardy with everyone and everything, though his description of Turkey\u2019s \u201cwall of meat\u201d during the Euros was amusing. Doesn\u2019t seem to enjoy anything about modern football apart from when strikers get away with fouling people. Has carved out a broadcasting niche as \u201cThe Angry Alan Partridge of football\u201d but without most of the humour and all of the cringe (wall of meat notwithstanding).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Robbie Savage: <\/strong>Plays up to the fact that everyone thinks he\u2019s a bit of a knob, but his in-match analysis is usually pretty good (apart from during Wales games). Used to do that thing where he\u2019d say \u201cListen,\u201d before trying to make a point, except he\u2019d use it at the beginning of every sentence so it sounded like his co-presenters keep drifting off when he\u2019s talking.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ian Dennis: <\/strong>The quintessential radio \u201csafe pair of hands\u201d, he\u2019s good at what he does and makes everything an enjoyable listen. Also, there\u2019s the Bono incident\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Ian Dennis and The Bono Incident – Euro 2020 pic.twitter.com\/gl9kfobD5F<\/a><\/p>— 30 yard sniper (@30yardsniper) September 17, 2021<\/a><\/blockquote>