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Hello_There
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here are some of his famous gaffes
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Mouse
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I take it these gaffes are from the last 4 years? Thank God he's called it a day.
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Dannygfc
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Absolutely - he's been an embarrassment this tournament. In fact, he's been stuck in a timewarp for about 10 years - ill-informed, inarticulate and painfully slow to adapt to football's changing world order. Hopefully this will usher in a revolution at the BBC - Jonathan Pearce will assume the mantle of top commentator, Adrian Chiles will replace Gary Lineker, and Alan Shearer will vanish from our screens, never to be seen again. But I doubt it......
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George
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Hopefully this will usher in a revolution at the BBC - Jonathan Pearce will assume the mantle of top commentator, Adrian Chiles will replace Gary Lineker, and Alan Shearer will vanish from our screens, never to be seen again. But I doubt it......
Revolution? Match of The Day is about all they will be left with next year. I never had any problem with Motson, it's the so called experts in the studio who get up my nose. During EUFA 2008 I've been recording and watching late at night, fast forwarding gets rid of Lineker and co very nicely. Even if I missed Martin O'Neil, the only one worth his money.
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You must have the patience of a saint George, Motson's mistakes are cringeworthy, getting players names incorrect is the biggest mistake a commentator could make, makes it worse when you don't know all the players names yourself.
What makes him worse is when he asks for clarification, like in the Final last night, he asked if Casillas was booked just after Ballack's yellow, and even Lawro had no idea.
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Dannygfc
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My problem with Motson (well, one of my MANY problems with Motson), is that he talks like an excited schoolboy grassing up someone to his Mum. He sounds surprised by anything that ever happens on a football pitch. He's bewildered by tactics, incapable of instant analysis, and deeply unpoetic when trying to capture football's drama. Quite simply, he has been overtaken by younger, sharper, better researched, more eloquent, less condescending, less pointlessly hysterical commentators. Even those roughly of the same generation - Martin Tyler - are far superior.
That he's survived so long is just a sign of the BBC's misplaced and sentimental trust in cosy, cliche-spouting "national treasures" who should've been jettisoned years ago.
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George
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It's not so much having the patience of a saint Mouse, I just ignored his patter. Concentrating on what's happening on the field 'switching off' from his commentary I found quite easy after a bit of practice.
When Jonathon Pearce joined the BBC I was apprehensive, his commentaries for Channel 5 were somewhat over the top, Never heard anyone like him when a goal was scored. Nearly as bad as the Brazilian commentator with his maniac reaction.
Fortunately Pearce seems to have mellowed for the Beeb job, just as well.
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Mouse
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That's it though, a commentator shouldn't allow you to switch off during a game.
Don't get me started with Tyler or Pearce either. Tyldesley does a good job, Barry Davies was the best, Peter Brackley is good, as for Motty, I'd rather listen to Racist Ron.
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George
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Barry Davies, I was thinking of him when responding and could not remember his name. Now he was a good, it must have really irked him having to play second fiddle to Motson all those years. What I liked about Davies was he remained silent for spells, recognising the viewer did not need all that twaddle of who a player's grannie was or whether he'd scored an average of 10.5 goals over a season.
Thanks for reminding me.
Edited by George (Mon Jun 30 2008 09:40 PM)
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Goonster
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We all remember Murray Walker and his mistakes but eveyone seems to love him all the more because of them. So Motty makes a few gaffes - what`s the difference?
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spiraleye
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I remember bumping into Motty just off Carnaby Street about 15 years ago. Unprompted, he directed us to a vacant table in what was a very dark cellar wine bar. I plucked up the courage to tell him about a mutual acquaintance: someone I have always known as uncle Ron, but Motty and the rest know as Ronny Radford (Hereford v Newcastle, Goal of the Season, 1971). When he asked where I lived, his eyebrows raised and his surprise - and mine - turned to astonishment when it turned out that he was born and went to school within a few hundred metres of my home.
A lot of celebs are vain and pompous. Motty, for all his faults, is modest and a gentleman.
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