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  • Rothko
    Rothko Posts: 18,801
    The whole laddy Monday Night Club/Friday show thing is fucking hard work to listen to. Chris Sutton doing his act is awful, not saying Alan Green should be on the station, as his act was wearing thin
  • MrLargo
    MrLargo Posts: 7,989
    Didn't agree with letting Pougatch go. No objections at all to seeing the back of Alan Green though - sounds like a pain in the arse with an over-inflated opinion of his own talent and importance.
  • DyerConsequences
    DyerConsequences Posts: 2,625
    edited March 2020
    And here I was thinking there would be no good news today. Don't let door hit you on the way out.
  • Big William
    Big William Posts: 3,838
    Feel very sorry for Pogatch, but Green has been a pain for years.
  • ricky_otto
    ricky_otto Posts: 22,600
    His loan spell from Villa started off ok, gone off the boil though of late. 
  • Rothko
    Rothko Posts: 18,801
    Pogatch is on a fair old whack from BT Sport and ITV Sport
  • killerandflash
    killerandflash Posts: 69,840
    I don't agree with many of the 5L changes...except this one. I've always found him really annoying
  • DyerConsequences
    DyerConsequences Posts: 2,625
    Rothko said:
    Pogatch is on a fair old whack from BT Sport and ITV Sport
    Enough to get himself some bitches and a range rover?
  • iainment
    iainment Posts: 8,039
    Addick Addict said:
    Being released by the BBC. Said to be "angry and disappointed". Follows Mark Pougatch out the door as he doesn't fit the mould of the modern day BBC commentator/journo/pundit.
    Who’s he going to moan to about his cup of tea/pie now?
  • Big William
    Big William Posts: 3,838
    So Alex Ferguson ignoring him is no longer the biggest story in sport? I am greatly relieved.
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  • seth plum
    seth plum Posts: 53,448
    I always thought him a poor commentator, not describing things, constantly saying 'penalty air' instead of 'area', patronising distain for those he regards as small clubs, a clumsy attempt to deny he supports Liverpool which fools no one, and even complaining about the volume of a grounds PA system, as if everything at the live event he is supposed to be describing has to be tailored for him.
  • Rothko
    Rothko Posts: 18,801
    DyerConsequences said:
    Rothko said:
    Pogatch is on a fair old whack from BT Sport and ITV Sport
    Enough to get himself some bitches and a range rover?
    All I've got now is Loving Dog from the CassetteBoy in my head now
  • Viewfinder
    Viewfinder Posts: 4,910
    edited March 2020
    seth plum said:
    I always thought him a poor commentator, not describing things, constantly saying 'penalty air' instead of 'area', patronising distain for those he regards as small clubs, a clumsy attempt to deny he supports Liverpool which fools no one, and even complaining about the volume of a grounds PA system, as if everything at the live event he is supposed to be describing has to be tailored for him.

    I know what you mean - yet I like Green for his refusal to get all histrionic and hyper-excited over a dull game.  If it's a nil-nil bore, he says so.  I can't stand the ridiculous froth of hyperbole spouted by the other commentators.  And I agree with a previous poster: those laddish football chats on 5 Live with people like Robbie Savage are horrendous. 
  • Exiled_Addick
    Exiled_Addick Posts: 17,168
    Can’t say I listen to 5Live’s football coverage much these days, it’s mostly ill informed pundits playing up to pantomime rolls and is only really interested in the Premier League, but it always struck me that Alan Green didn’t actually like football, so he should be quite happy he no longer has to work in it. 
  • BrentfordAddick
    BrentfordAddick Posts: 1,460
    Good riddance.
  • StigThundercock
    StigThundercock Posts: 3,722
    He's nver been my favourite commentator, usually comes across as a pompous ninny, but he's not fallen prey to the current mania for hyperbole and buzzwords and shouting.  There's no shortage of sports coverage over which he'll have opportunities to air his brand of commentary, long ago that one was "BBC or ITV".
    It's all very well being bitter about losing a cushy number but why would one want to carry on working with, let alone for, people one doesn't respect.
    It's just a bump in the road you hadn't spotted AG, keep right on and take the next opportunity that comes along.
  • BrentfordAddick
    BrentfordAddick Posts: 1,460
    And anyone in the entertainment business who works for 45 years - in this case, getting paid well to watch and talk about some of the best football in the world - should consider themselves on the lucky side.
  • Bedsaddick
    Bedsaddick Posts: 24,730
    edited March 2020
    Alan Green is a miserable old fucker and should have been taken off air 10 years ago . 
  • EastTerrace
    EastTerrace Posts: 3,961
    Finally some good news
  • Lincsaddick
    Lincsaddick Posts: 32,345
    he's worked for the BBC for 45 years .. had a good run now time to go .. so feck off as 'they' say in Belfast
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  • Valleysarr
    Valleysarr Posts: 1,097
    Rip

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