Surely the worst pundit on the tele. Everything the bloke says is wrong. Makes me want to mute the commentary

Disagree, reckon he’s the best of the BBC lot. Far more entertaining that Keown or Neville!

Quoted from Hagrid

Surely the worst pundit on the tele. Everything the bloke says is wrong. Makes me want to mute the commentary

with you
"not a penalty....not for me.."   the bloke took Ronaldo out....
"nothing there for me...just brushed him " ....  Ronaldo lucky to stay on, intentional use of the arm/ elbow off the ball
;D

Its the ref who is having a mare though and the very concept of VAR is being jeopardised by this game alone...supposed to be virtually non intrusive ....absolute fking joke..


just glad that the Premier League have delayed its introduction...whole thing should be binned off....every time a player gets fouled or falls over they start the "Charade for TV signal"

VAR is a complete shambles!

Quoted from Hagrid

Surely the worst pundit on the tele. Everything the bloke says is wrong. Makes me want to mute the commentary

I like Lawro myself. A good laugh, which is all part and parcel of it all. He is right about VAR as well - a total farce.

He’s like the really annoying bloke who sits near you and shouts balderdash all the time. If you don’t know who that is near where you sit at BP well...

Quoted from Hagrid

Surely the worst pundit on the tele. Everything the bloke says is wrong. Makes me want to mute the commentary

Top bloke I reckon so disagree I'm afraid!

Theres only one john motson...

National treasure - love Lawro

The authorities are being taken for a ride by the cheats.
The refs are not up to the job.
There are no English referees at the competition.
At least under Sep blather the corruption took the form of brown envelopes.
Complete farce FIFA. Get a grip. F
Don't have a problem with lawrenson, shearer , or linear.
FIFA are killing the game through incompetence or corruption. Don't know which.

Quoted from Mariner_09

VAR is a complete shambles!

Correction - the people using it are lol  :P


But I will add ML makes me so depressed and angry  ;D

I like Lawrenson.....he is fed up with all the play acting that is getting out of hand now.

I'm also a fan of VAR.....early days but we will get more correct decisions with it.

Yes Var is excrement also

Quoted from Hagrid

Surely the worst pundit on the tele. Everything the bloke says is wrong. Makes me want to mute the commentary

Not often I agree with you Hagrid but squarely behind you on this one, he is as outdated as is moustache, how he thought that was an ok challenge on Ronaldo defies belief. Even if he had lost the ball you cannot just kick a player up in the air.

To be honest only like Souness and Murphy with Shearer just ok of tv pundits so other than on commentary hardly ever bother listening to them.

Danny Murphy is the best for me - but give me Lawro over Dull Phil Neville any day.

Quoted from Roast Em Bobby

National treasure - love Lawro

He looks like the Daily Star's Bo Peep and has the personality of squashed aubergine.

Lawro is very dry .


I like him

What I don't understand is it is supposed to correct "clear and obvious errors".

The Spanish equaliser the linesman flagged it offside. It went upstairs and out came the slide ruler to allow it. It was so close that it could have gone either way. No way was it "a clear and obvious error".If he was clearly onside then fair enough but you have to say that the linesman can be forgiven for flagging it given how quick the ball was played and the player movement.

It's not very often I feel sorry for the linesman, but on this occasion I do.

In cricket they allow the umpire a certain amount of leeway in his decision on LBW's. If it is very tight then it stays with the umpire. Only if it is out by a clear amount does it get overruled. This is how I think it should work.

Love lawro when he's commenting on a game, says what he sees, doesn't mince his words calls a dive a dive a cheat a cheat, he's a breath of fresh air in a world of political commentry. He's also come out with my favourite line of the world cup so far when Hernández fell over the ball and rolled around for 10 minutes Lawro asked if he'd dislocated his shoe lace

Quoted from IlkleyMariner

There are no English referees at the competition.

There would've been if he hadn't buggered off to Saudi Arabia!

Quoted from sonofmadeleymariner

Love lawro when he's commenting on a game, says what he sees, doesn't mince his words calls a dive a dive a cheat a cheat, he's a breath of fresh air in a world of political commentry. He's also come out with my favourite line of the world cup so far when Hernández fell over the ball and rolled around for 10 minutes Lawro asked if he'd dislocated his shoe lace

;D ;D ;D  had he ?   :)

Quoted from Mariner_09

Disagree, reckon he’s the best of the BBC lot. Far more entertaining that Keown or Neville!

Always puts a smile on my face with his dry sense of humour on football focus

Mark Lawrenson has he gets older he does come across very sarcastic sometimes but he's not afraid to say what he thinks which is good.

The worst person for me is Sam Matterface ITV comm comes out with the most stupid facts absolutely awful.

Sooner have Lawrenson talking shite than all those women talking shite

Love the bones of the bloke just a pity he can't co-commentate or be a pundit on every World Cup game in place of some of the total self obsessed idiots both channels seem to have. Sick of that twit Shearer, Keane is so quiet and sulky he's obviously drunk off that he can't break any more legs and as for Bilic it's really switch off time when he appears, what a boring argumentative illegitimate

I quite like Billic. Danny Murphy one of the better ones, no great fan of Shearer who just states the obvious- no insights whatsoever

He is footballs Alf Garnet. love him.  why do some people follow the PC brigade.

Punditry is supposed to give viewers an insight - maybe even enlightenment - as to why things happen in football.

Murphy's the best of a bad lot. As a footballer I thought Lawrenson was a class act, but as a pundit I think he's dreadful. It's like listening to the Leonard Cohen of football. I just want to slash my wrists before he even comes on now. Eniola Aluko, on the other hand, does her research, is articulate, and it's actually a pleasure listening to her comments about the game.

Await the inevitable barrage of red crosses!

Mark is one of those blokes who you either think is boring with silly jokes or a funny man you would like to sit next to,

What annoys me about him is when he goes on and says" never a pen  he was not in control of the ball"


Well Kane was not in control of the ball when rugby tackle to the floor Mark,

BUT


It was a penalty all day long mate ;D

I can put up with him more than some of the other pundits in the studio,

The ones I like the most are Danny Murphy and Keown who both talk the most sense,


Not sure about a woman commentating on a game though.

Murphy's as dour as Lawro, but 10% as amusing. In the studio, I like Ferdinand and Lampard. Shearer's much better than he used to be too (although that's not saying much)

ITV having 4 pundits sat there despite all the ad breaks just seems bonkers. Although when one of them is as pointless as Evra, maybe it makes a bit more sense.

Quoted from grimsby pete

Well Kane was not in control of the ball when rugby tackle to the floor Mark,

BUT

It was a penalty all day long mate ;D

http://www.espn.co.uk/football/england/story/3533628/harry-kane-penalties-why-var-might-not-have-advised-spot-kicks

I've never personally been bothered about who is on commentary or punditry. I'm watching football for the football not the accompanying audio. It does amuse me how enraged people get about them though. I enjoy the ramblings of miserable old illegitimates though so I don't mind the likes of Mark Lawrenson or Roy Keane.

Gary Neville and Ian Wright are my favourite pundits. Neville is insightful and interesting and Wright is good value for money.

Quoted from Abdul19

, I like Ferdinand .

Yes I like him a lot.Very honest and funny.I like Zabaleta as well .

Quoted from Mariner_09

Gary Neville and Ian Wright are my favourite pundits. Neville is insightful and interesting and Wright is good value for money.

It was quite amusing the other day when Wright and Bilic had a bit of banter with each other  ;)

Quoted from promotion plaice

;D ;D ;D  had he ?   :)

I'm guessing not as he continued for the rest of the match  ;D

Probably the most limited and unfunny "pundit" around.
Doesn't even understand the basic rules of the game & VAR baffles him.
A dinosaur in today's game but the BBC love him.

Chris Sutton on Radio 5 is quality

Frank Lampard has impressed me the most his insight and knowledge is very good, I like Danny Murphy as well.

Thinks he's funny. Wrong.
Thinks Alaska is a country beginning with A (Pointless) Wrong but THAT was funny! 😀