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Chris Rowland
Why Emma Hayes is At Least 15 Times Better As a TV Pundit
Written by TTT Subscriber Bob Pearce. At major tournaments there will often be one name that stands out. Someone…
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Bob Pearce
Talking a Lot of Wind
in Media Watch, Subscribers Only / / 36 commentsWritten by TTT Subscriber Bob Pearce. What do TV football pundits actually do? Their main skill seems to be…
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Chris Rowland
The Media’s Part in the Bizarre Booing of Joe Gomez
in Media Watch, Subscribers Only / / 28 commentsBy Brett Curtis. As his number was held on the board and his name read out by the…
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Daniel Rhodes
Liverpool – Champions League Winners 2019 – The Best Media Reports
in Media Watch, Subscribers Only / / 22 commentsOf course since the final whistle we’ve all been lapping up the best reactions and analysis across many different media…
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Chris Rowland
The Secret Pundit Takes On The Commentators: Part 20 – The Final Shorts!
By Our Mystery Correspondent P.Dantic. To conclude the series, our Measured Ranter takes his Gatling gun to a whole…
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Chris Rowland
The Secret Pundit Takes On The Commentators, No.19 – ‘It Could’ve Gone Anywhere’
By Our Mystery Correspondent P.Dantic. Of the many dumb things that commentators can say, it seems to me that…
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Chris Rowland
The Secret Pundit Takes on the Commentators, Part 18: ‘If You’re Looking For Omens…’
By Our Mystery Correspondent P.Dantic. If you were compiling a list of commentator catch-phrases, ‘If you’re looking for omens…..’…
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Chris Rowland
The Secret Pundit Takes On The Commentators, Part 17: ‘I’ve Seen Them Given’
By Our Mystery Correspondent P.Dantic. You may find yourself commenting on a football match And you may find yourself…
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Chris Rowland
The Secret Pundit Takes On The Commentators, Part 16: ‘Not Good Enough’
By our Mystery Correspondent P.Dantic. ‘Not good enough’ This is one of the commentator classics. Welcome to ‘Not good…
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Chris Rowland
The Secret Pundit Takes on the Commentators, Part 15: ‘He Can’t Have Too Many Complaints’
By our Mystery Correspondent P. Dantic. Hardly a game passes without the commentator telling us ‘He can’t have too…
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Chris Rowland
The Secret Pundit Takes on the Commentators, Part 14: ‘He’s a Real Talent’
by our Mystery Correspondent P. Dantic. It’s not all about just reading the names on the player’s shirts. The…
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Chris Rowland
The Secret Pundit Takes on the Commentators, Part 13: ‘That’s Changed His Half-time Team Talk’
By Our Mystery Correspondent Per Dantic. ‘That’s changed his half-time team-talk’. The commentators are saying that the manager was…
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Chris Rowland
The Secret Pundit Takes on the Commentators, Part 12: ‘A Messi or a Xavi’
By Our Mystery Correspondent Per Dantic. The commentators like to use some variation of this phrase. They will take…
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Chris Rowland
The Secret Pundit Takes on The Commentators, Part 10: ‘The Worst Possible Start’
in Exclusive, Media Muppet of the Week, Media Watch, Personal Thoughts, Subscribers Only / / 2 commentsBy our mystery correspondent Per Dantic. You’ll learn that one in your first week at commentators’ classes. The commentators say…
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Chris Rowland
The Secret Pundit Takes on The Commentators, Part 9: ‘He is a Top Top Player’
By our mystery correspondent Per Dantic. ‘He is a top top player’ We often hear the commentators say ‘He is…
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Chris Rowland
The Secret Pundit Takes on The Commentators: Part 8: “The Referee Could Not Have Been Closer”
By Per Dantic. ‘The referee could not have been closer’ That phrase never seems to go out of fashion with…
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Chris Rowland
The Secret Pundit Takes on The Commentators: Part 7: “In and Around”
By Professor Per Dantic. That’s a fashionable phrase with the commentators now. ‘In and around’ has become very popular. What…
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Chris Rowland
The Secret Pundit Takes on the Commentators Part 5: “He Can Do That.”
By our Secret Correspondent P. Dantic. That’s a fashionable phrase with the commentators now. The main commentator tells us that…
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Chris Rowland
The Secret Pundit Takes on the Commentators Part 4: “He Just Wanted it More”
By Our Mystery Correspondent P. Dantic. You hear a lot of commentators say that. ‘He just wanted it more’. They…
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Chris Rowland
The Secret Pundit Takes on the Commentators Part 3: “It’s a Game of Fine Margins”
By Our Mystery Correspondent P. Dantic. It’s a phrase that comes up in commentary a lot. They tell us ‘It’s…
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Chris Rowland
The Secret Pundit Takes on the Commentators, Part 2 – “At This Level You Will Get Punished”
in Media Muppet of the Week, Media Watch, Personal Thoughts, Subscribers Only, Talking Point / / 16 commentsBy our mystery correspondent P. Dantic. That’s something commentators sometimes like to say isn’t it? ‘At this level you will…
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Chris Rowland
The Secret Pundit v The Commentators, Part 1 – “You Can See What it Means to Him”
By Mystery Correspondent P.Dantic. That’s a popular thing to say with commentators now: “You can see what it means to him”…
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Si Steers
The Changing Face of Football Media
By Si Steers. There used to be a very well defined football media in England. The established mainstream media had…
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Bob Pearce
Show Me Something I Can’t See
By Bob Pearce. When I was a teenager in the 1970s, football was rarely shown ‘live’ on TV. If you…
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Paul Tomkins
Dispelling Some Media Myths
By Tom Booton (with a helping hand from TTT subscriber Kris Patterson). Remember Zlatan Ibrahimovic? You know who I mean – that pony-tailed, lazy,…