Comments on: Your Guide to Premiership TV Commentators

By: Martin Walker

Martin Walker — Sat, 27 Feb 2010 22:41:38 +0000

Just trying to watch Stoke vs Arsenal but as usual Gary O’Reilly is ruining the game for me with his monotone tribble. I’m a Liverpool fan and he gets lots of the Reds games whic is so disppointing. Lets hope he gets fired soon, He’s sooooo annoying!!!

By: peter olumide

peter olumide — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 16:09:16 +0000

i will give my commentator of all time to Martin Tyler and also to Alan Green. i am also a football commentator(main) in Nigeria.

By: chris k

chris k — Sun, 26 Apr 2009 23:01:04 +0000

I can’t believe how little work Gary O’Reilly seems to get…..his voice can be a bit monotone but he reads the game as a pro would and passes that information on to viewers in an easily understood manner….the sort of insight I think viewers are looking for. Some other comments men seem to lack some of the basics….they are barely articulate, dunt talk nuffin loik the Queen’s lingo and only seem capable of stating the obvious…..
Robbie Earle is the other comments man who makes a good fist of the job, for much the same reasons as O’Reilly. Either of those two alongside Ian Darke will do me…

By: The Gaffer

The Gaffer — Sun, 18 Jan 2009 13:05:39 +0000

Mark Bright.

By: Norm

Norm — Sat, 29 Mar 2008 06:40:09 +0000

Garry Bloom has got to be up there with the best, whats he doing these days?

By: Peer

Peer — Sun, 23 Mar 2008 12:36:01 +0000

Garry O’Reilly is the most boring English commentator. I just can’t stand his waffle.

ESPN have generally got the worst of the lot. Some of those motormouths appear to be paid by the number of words they utter.

By: Chris O

Chris O — Sat, 15 Mar 2008 08:49:13 +0000

My thoughts are that Martin Tyler is the best of all of them – a great tone of voice to accompany the well-judged commentary.

I think Andy Gray’s quite incisive in his commentary and speak’s like an ex-player who really knows his stuff.

Alan Parry, I’m afraid, is one of my least favourite commentators. I remember a match some years ago between Man United and West Ham in which the latter were getting really… well, hammered. Parry’s commentary was so pro-United throughout that I nearly vomited.

It was all “Aren’t Man United the best team in the world when they’re playing like this?” and “You feel sorry for West Ham but they’re not in the same class as this incredible United side…” only worse – MUCH worse.

David Pleat’s just a joke, frankly. How he got a job writing a column in the Saturday Sport section of The Guardian I’ll never know…

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Tue, 18 Dec 2007 14:03:00 +0000

I enjoy all the commentators, so much better than the crap we have here in Canada, but for David Pleat. He is just the worst. “I have to say the grass is green today”…he must go. He reminds me of the old python skit “i hit the ball and it it when in the net.” Dreadful.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Wed, 03 Jan 2007 01:25:00 +0000

You forgot about Ian Crocker, who recently left BSkyB for Setanta. Crocker did games for TWI in the past.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Tue, 02 Jan 2007 22:39:00 +0000

Motto is a ledge~ Barry Davies is up there too. Alan Parry is ny fave and then Tyler.
Co- commentators:
Who is Gary O reilly? I like him a lot- he does the late afternoon games- he’s very different to the rest.
cheers,