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For some reason in football they feel they have to be poetic and every sentence has to be word play or Shakespearean. No other sport seems to have commentators that do this.
I just watched the England vs Hungary highlights. Just bizarre the stuff he was coming out with. If you watch this and pretend its your mate talking with the game on silent in a pub, you or someone else would certainly have told him to shut up within 5 mins.
''For Hungary it becomes a special night indeed... FOR HIM it becomes a MORE than special night''
''They are 20 minutes just more, away from a victory of historic note''.
''He has thumped that in gloriously, and a glorious night it surely is for Hungary now, who have ripped up England on their own turf. What a hit... what a problem''.
''For England, horror upon Hungarian horror, for Hungary... the night of their fantasies''
''These are magical, magical magyars''
Who on earth speaks like this??
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I don’t think he’s allowed to laugh and say “Hungary have just poked England a new one” which is what the language would be in the pubs around here, but I get your point
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Commentator thread on 09:01 - Jun 15 with 1407 views
I don’t think he’s allowed to laugh and say “Hungary have just poked England a new one” which is what the language would be in the pubs around here, but I get your point
I’d prefer that 1000 times over.
Swansea Independent Poster of the Year 2021 and 2022.
A lot of them come off like they're advertising a game you're already watching. The newer generation of commentators all seem to have been taught to commentate in a put-on dramatic tone and have a page full of generic one-liners ready (Sam Matterface awful). Unfortunately many of the older ones now struggle to remember player names (last decade of John Motson painful), or now think themselves experts and frequently talk over the ex-pros alongside them (Martin Tyler awful).
My favourite recent commentator is the guy who did the Wales Croatia u18s game because he was pulling double duty as the stadium announcer, and did announcements in Croatian and English.
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Commentator thread on 11:48 - Jun 15 with 1319 views
A lot of them come off like they're advertising a game you're already watching. The newer generation of commentators all seem to have been taught to commentate in a put-on dramatic tone and have a page full of generic one-liners ready (Sam Matterface awful). Unfortunately many of the older ones now struggle to remember player names (last decade of John Motson painful), or now think themselves experts and frequently talk over the ex-pros alongside them (Martin Tyler awful).
My favourite recent commentator is the guy who did the Wales Croatia u18s game because he was pulling double duty as the stadium announcer, and did announcements in Croatian and English.
I agree, it’s common place now so many don’t even notice. But if you isolate the game from the voice, they are just talking absolute gibberish. Like a teenagers in a creative writing lesson.
Many of these sentences are pre-planned, they are so unnatural it’s cringeworthy. They are all trying to get the “Aguerooooooo” moment.
Agree regarding Motson bless him. He was in a constant state of confusion with what was going on, he would emphasise a players name as if he was about to take a shot - you would look up in expectation and he would simply be controlling the ball on the halfway line.
But this desire to be poetic and romanticising every single sentence is becoming increasingly nauseating, and again I don’t think it exists in any other sport. Quite why it has taken hold in football I don’t know.
Swansea Independent Poster of the Year 2021 and 2022.
A lot of them come off like they're advertising a game you're already watching. The newer generation of commentators all seem to have been taught to commentate in a put-on dramatic tone and have a page full of generic one-liners ready (Sam Matterface awful). Unfortunately many of the older ones now struggle to remember player names (last decade of John Motson painful), or now think themselves experts and frequently talk over the ex-pros alongside them (Martin Tyler awful).
My favourite recent commentator is the guy who did the Wales Croatia u18s game because he was pulling double duty as the stadium announcer, and did announcements in Croatian and English.
Martin bloody Tyler and his “and it’s liiiive”😡😡😡
All channels the same, S4C for Holland aways last week with a commentator and TWO Co commentator who didn't shut up. Had to turn the sound off. Amazon at one time just had the crowd noise which was so much better.
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Commentator thread on 01:02 - Jun 18 with 685 views
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