The Midfield Dynamo Pundit-o-Meter
November 13, 2007
To see midfielddynamo.com’s list of the best and worst football pundits, click here.
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To see midfielddynamo.com’s list of the best and worst football pundits, click here.
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November 15, 2007 at 10:03 am
Your punditometer is a good idead, however, do you guys actually watch Jamie Redknapp??!! The man is a fool. How about putting in Johnny Giles, Eamonn Dunphy and Liam Brady. these guys make, Guillem Balague aside, look like back-slapping amateurs…and for the love of punditry, please please put a BBC Gerry Adams style ban of Redknapp for crimes against punditry.
November 15, 2007 at 12:35 pm
Leonardo and Martin O’Neil should definitely be up there. The word Cup punditry from these boys and Desailly was awesome, classic banter with some intelligent and true comments.
O’Neill’s rant about Ibrahimovic being over-rated was genius, especially as Zlatan went on to have an absolute stinker of a game!
And Leonardo is clearly one of the most intelligent footballers (or ex-footballers) around. You can see this as a scout for Milan he’s helped pick out Kaka and Pato to name a few!
Pleat needs to be banned or sent to Siberia as quick as possible, hes awful. I think he just reads a thesaurus before games and tries to get as many new words in as possible, even if he doesn’t know what they mean! His comments end up making no sense what so ever, half of the time. The other half are just plain obvious!!!!!
November 16, 2007 at 11:38 am
For the awful stakes, Shearer and Wrighty must come close to being bottom, not just to improve Matt’s postion as he’s not that bad when he’s in a group.
Shearer is so monotonic it doesn’t matter if he stumbles on something insightful and Wrighty is just OTT with his patriotic views he comes across as a complete tool.
November 16, 2007 at 2:52 pm
I can’t believe you have ommitted Ian Wright from this list. He is the most annoying, cretinous, pathetical t**t ever to be on television ever. I really hate him.
November 20, 2007 at 8:09 am
Come on, Alan Shearer has to be up/down there. At the start of the 2006 World Cup he boorishly announced, “There’s only three players in this tournament that would get into the England team: Zidane, Ballack and Henry.” Which roughly translated as: “There’s only three players in this tournament outside the England squad that I’ve heard of…” Ignorant clot.
And Pleat deserves higher credit, not only because his tactical analysis is astute, but because he often does ITV telly during the ninety minutes and FIveLive at half time of the same game, causing untold confusion and embarrassment to the ITV commentators when he starts the second half with: “As I was saying at half time…”
November 20, 2007 at 9:39 am
Sam – don’t worry – he’ll be going on. You’re spot on about Mr Shearer, like so many pundits out there his knowledge of the international scene appears to be non-existent. Bring back Leonardo.
November 27, 2007 at 4:34 pm
What about Garth Crooks?? Surely the most annoying pundit ever!! i think the only reason people watch him is to see the time a footballer smacks him!
And what about Jeff Stelling? The guy is a genius and seems to know everything!
November 27, 2007 at 5:26 pm
Chreee: Agree about Garth, and he will be making an appearance on the pundit-o-meter. As for Stelling, we’re thinking of having a similar item for football presenters such as him, Lineker, Keys, Chiles, James Richardson etc. So watch this space…
February 12, 2008 at 2:32 pm
paul merson – get this guy in there. he’s becoming a legend on sky for the utter nonsense that comes out of his mouth!