The difference between the two broadcasters attitudes to covering football matches couldn't be greater. Why would you watch Sky with bland agreeable pundits like Jamie Redknapp and Glenn Hoddle when you can watch RTE and have the craic with the Dunph and the lads. A passage of conversation from RTE's coverage of the United game last night to illustrate my point:
Eamonn: I have to say as football matches go, It's not a great spectacle.
Bill: Ah Eamon, let's call a spade a spade...it's a really boring match.
Eamonn: Ah now Bill, we can't be saying things like that or the viewers at home will switch off. (Sarcastically) It'll come alive in the second half Bill, it's brilliantly poised to become a sensational game in the second half.
Bill: Ah now Eamon, what station do you think you're working for?
Eamon: Sky!
Brilliant, they just tell it how it is. They don't try to suck viewers in by sensationalising everything and trying to find deep meaning in matches that really, are training exercises for the big teams. What Sky do in their production is really pathetic. They must consider their viewers to be absolute morons.
When Daragh Moloney was handing it back to Bill in the studio can you for one second imagine Richard Keys saying what Bill O'Herlihy said?
"Well Daragh, I'm not surprised you've handed it back to us because that really was one crap match".
I rest my case.
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Answer - 2nd January 2007 Which current Premiership manager has the best points per game ratio? The answer is a bit sneaky, because it's Avram Grant with 2.17 points per game, in second place and bearing in mind he has managed 588 more games than Grant, is Alex Ferguson with 2.12 points per game, and in third place is Arsene Wenger, with 2.02 points per game.
Answer - 17th December 2007: Gus Poyet is the top scoring South American in Premier League history with a tally of 54 goals from 187 games for Chelsea and Tottenham.
Answer - 10th December 2007: Gareth Southgate is the player who has played most times in the Premiership having never come off the bench. He has made 426 appearances, all starts. He's actually 6th in the all time appearances list, only coming in behind Gary Speed, David James, Ryan Giggs, Alan Shearer and Sol Campbell.
Answer - 17th December 2007: Gus Poyet is the top scoring South American in Premier League history with a tally of 54 goals from 187 games for Chelsea and Tottenham.
Answer - 10th December 2007: Gareth Southgate is the player who has played most times in the Premiership having never come off the bench. He has made 426 appearances, all starts. He's actually 6th in the all time appearances list, only coming in behind Gary Speed, David James, Ryan Giggs, Alan Shearer and Sol Campbell.
Who will finish this season as the Premier League's top scorer?
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I wish Norwegian commentators would learn from that! They suck so bad I wonder why people bother watching sports here at all. I was in Ireland recently and ended up watching sports I wasn't even interested in just because the commentators were great compared to ours. I don't remember which channel, though.
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