Muppet commentary

[Tobes Rafa]

Should it really really bother me when commentators/presenters continually pronounce players' names wrong? It irritates me as much as the forum favourite they're/their/there etc.

 

First of all we had the presenter on ITV (sorry don't know his name) calling Arbeloa, Ar-bee-leo then we have to listen to David Platt continually calling Benayoun, Ben-ya-noon. See what I did there?

 

It winds me up, it really does.

[Maldini]

I hate it when people get names wrong △△△△△△△

[charlie clown]

Pleat's a past master at it. Prolly means he can't read.

 

 

Slighty off topic but the boxing commentator wound me the other night - Joe Calzakky was fighting apparently.

[charlie clown]

  Maldini said:

I hate it when people get names wrong △△△△△△△

 

 

haha, didn't notice that.

[Guest Jude]

  Rikster said:

Should it really really bother me when commentators/presenters continually pronounce players' names wrong? It irritates me as much as the forum favourite they're/their/there etc.

 

First of all we had the presenter on ITV (sorry don't know his name) calling Arbeloa, Ar-bee-leo then we have to listen to David Platt continually calling Benayoun, Ben-ya-noon. See what I did there?

 

It winds me up, it really does.

 

Calm down Dickster

[Tobes Rafa]

Look closer!

[ManxRed]

  charlie clown said:

Pleat's a past master at it. Prolly means he can't read.

 

Its a shame Sissoskio wasn't playing last night as well.

[Tobes Rafa]

  Jude said:

Calm down Dickster

 

Hey Jude, don't be at***.

[ifanew]

Think Pleat gave up towards the end of the game and kept calling Yossi 'The Isreali' instead of Benny Noone. I found it more amusing than annoying, but it did grate that when Yossi scored, Pleat kept commenting that he hoped he saved some goals for the game against Russia. Who gives a f*ck.

[honourablegeorge]

  Rikster said:

we have to listen to David Platt continually calling Benayoun, Ben-ya-noon.

 

I dunno how Gail lets him stay in the house.

[Zoob]

Nearly every commentator used to call Don Hutchison Hutchinson. That used to drive me mad.

 

And Phil Neal continually gets names wrong when he's co comentator on the Offal. Rit-za (Riise) is the one that irks the most...

[Buttles]

It was almost as if he was doing it for a bet and then you remembered that it was David Pleat.

 

Yossi scored a hatrick and had his best game in red so it wasn't as if Pleat hadn't heard his name pronounced correctly all evening.

[Ronnie Whelan]

  honourablegeorge said:

I dunno how Gail lets him stay in the house.

 

 

Would you not stay in the house if you were married to that Gail Platt? Sex on legs she is.

[Tobes Rafa]

  honourablegeorge said:

I dunno how Gail lets him stay in the house.

Don't tell me you've missed the hidden text too. I can't go back and change the colour now as it would look as if I have added it in afterwards.

[Tones]

Pleat also used to say Jamie Carriage-r. Not the best at names i guess.

[Hightown Phil]

Don't diss Pleaty.

[Guest evil_billy]

  ifanew said:

Think Pleat gave up towards the end of the game and kept calling Yossi 'The Isreali' instead of Benny Noone. I found it more amusing than annoying, but it did grate that when Yossi scored, Pleat kept commenting that he hoped he saved some goals for the game against Russia. Who gives a f*ck.

 

Every single match report I've read today has mentioned that, un-f***ing-believable how they work it in anywhere they can...

[nvdm]

Gary Bailey (the t***) pronounces Benayoun Ben-wa-neen.

[Guest evil_billy]

  Ronnie Whelan said:

Would you not stay in the house if you were married to that Gail Platt? Sex on legs she is.

 

I got a little bit sick in my mouth reading that...

[Rich Gobey]

Ironically, for all of Pleats mispronounciations, he's the only co-comentator thats worth listening too, his tactical insight and reading of the game is generally spot on.

[Gunga Din]

  Hightown Phil said:

Don't diss Pleaty.

 

i quite like david pleat as co commentator. fair enough, he cant pronounce anyones name, but i think his analysis of games is often spot on, and he doesnt try and dumb it down, its old school footie commentry talking about tactics and formations and i think he is actua;y one of the better ones. the best about at the minute is probably Gary Birtles, but he is very under used

[Stevie H]

  big wayne said:

i quite like david pleat as co commentator. fair enough, he cant pronounce anyones name, but i think his analysis of games is often spot on, and he doesnt try and dumb it down, its old school footie commentry talking about tactics and formations and i think he is actua;y one of the better ones. the best about at the minute is probably Gary Birtles, but he is very under used

pleat's a superb tactical match analyst, i love reading his stuff. he usually reveals some element of the match that you'd not thought about.

 

it's just a shame for him that he's about as effective an orator as stephen hawking on smack.

[cymrococh]

  Steve H said:

pleat's a superb tactical match analyst, i love reading his stuff. he usually reveals some element of the match that you'd not thought about.

His Guardian column is excellent.

[Nerik]

Whenever Pleat is commentating a game that features a Crouch-Kuyt partnership they morph into a player called Kraut (I think he refers to Dirk as Krout).

[Dan]

Craig Johnston was on 5 Live this morning and made a right hash of it.

 

Firstly referred to Carra as Steve Carragher and then said as far as he was concerned both Carra and Gerrard were the back bone of the England team!