With the 1.24 billion league matches on offer at Sky, Setanta, and the Other Ones, you can’t really blame professional football announcers for over-relying on their trusty grab bag of football clichés. But now that John ‘Motty’ Motson has left for good, I think it’s time to wipe the slate clean in English football. Here […]
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Nine Football Announcing Cliches We Could Do Without
August 19th, 2008 · Comments
Tags: Besiktas · Chelsea · Football Commentators · Liverpool · Steven Gerrard · john motson
Differences Explored Between BBC and Sky Sports
January 28th, 2007 · Comments
I had the fortune of watching the FA Cup tie between Manchester United against Portsmouth yesterday, not on pay-per-view but on BBC1. While the match was very entertaining, especially the first half, with United’s attack after attack descending on Portsmouth’s goal, I walked away from the match with a few interesting observations.It isn’t that often […]
Tags: Alan Hansen · BBC · EPL Talk Chat · FA Cup · Gary Lineker · Mark Lawrenson · Sky Sports · john motson


















