Comments on: Americans Invading the English Premier League

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Mon, 01 Oct 2007 03:55:00 +0000

Simon,

Can you really judge a commentator on his prediction skills? Does a commentator’s ability to forecast where a player will be transferred really determine what he knows about the game of football and how well he talks about it? I don’t think the two are related at all. Well, I suppose a few things could be linked between the two, but for the most part I don’t see much of a connection. Someone can really know the game, the players, the teams, the intricacies, and the business, and still be “off” when it comes to predicting where this player or that will go. Shoot, it’s all guesses until the club or player makes an official statement.

By: Simon Burke

Simon Burke — Mon, 24 Sep 2007 21:07:00 +0000

Marcotti absolutely loves himself and thinks he knows everything – his appearances however on Steve Bunce’s The Rumour Mill (BBC Radio 5, now defunct show) showed up his ‘knowledge’ as being that of another transfer expert journo who in reality knew as much as we all did from reading the backpages. He kept touting Lampard to Barcelona as a done deal all last Summer – never happened. Also Torres to Man U was his other dead cert that he kept banging on about. I dont put a lot of stock in him.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Mon, 24 Sep 2007 13:52:00 +0000

Bill, keep practicing those British terms & expressions and start working on your Brummie accent (you’re from Birmingham, right?)- they’ll never know the difference! All roight?

By: tyduffy

tyduffy — Mon, 24 Sep 2007 13:36:00 +0000

That would be a major wall to breakdown. Even though Gab is writing for a major English paper and does the podcast, he is still, at least technically, there to be their expert on continental football. Are there any non British-Isles writers who cover specifically the Premier League for an English news organization?

I would love to go over there after my journalism masters, but I would probably end up having to cover the Premier League for an American news organization and maybe writing about American sports for an English one.