Best /Worst Commentator

**joeSoap** · 26/02/2004, 10:35 AM

BEST: Michael O'Hehir, O'Muirecheartaigh, Bill McClaren and John Motson.
WORST: George Hamilton...bar none.

**max power** · 26/02/2004, 10:36 AM

best of all time for me has to be murray walker

worst is hamilton, what a tool !!!

**the 12 th man** · 26/02/2004, 10:50 AM

italy v ireland v usa 94/rte tv coverage as follows
hamilton;...."dino baggio holds it up.......passes it to brother roberto!!!!!!
i mean that just defies belief.
he later said that the notes that he was given for the match were at fault

**tetsujin1979** · 26/02/2004, 10:53 AM

Frank Stapleton and Jim Beglin are enough to convince me of the existence of Satan!

Beglins best ever line - "as I was saying the other day to Ronnie, or Ronaldo to you".

And the gimp's got himself a job on UTV too!

**max power** · 26/02/2004, 10:54 AM

check out www.dangerhere.com for great commentary gaffs

b_mcsweeney · 26/02/2004, 11:18 AM

i actually don't mind beglin, his voice/accent is a bit annoying, but he's usually pretty good with his observations, has decent knowledge and gets his facts right most of the time. gerry armstrong on sky's spanish coverage is pretty good too. oh, and alan brazil's alright, though you'd rarely hear him.

i've begun to really hate andy gray. and i think ray houghtons brutal at colour commentary but does better in the studio. ryle nugent was appalling, he seems to have f***ed off to rugby now, and good riddance.

**max power** · 26/02/2004, 11:22 AM

agreed about andy gray....

ronaldo against everton...one man wall for a free kick, from 12 yards away he hit the guy in the face with the ball and ray said it was deliberate...gray = ****

**the 12 th man** · 26/02/2004, 11:25 AM

Originally posted by b_mcsweeney
ryle nugent was appalling, he seems to have f***ed off to rugby now, and good riddance.

as well as egg chasing you might see him doing basketball etc...his annoying style of delivery he says is down to helping(deaf i would imagine) people lipread him when he is on tv.

**pete** · 26/02/2004, 11:41 AM

Beglin as bad as they get.

Daragh Maloney the worst cos he makes George Hamilton sound good.

**SÓC** · 26/02/2004, 11:45 AM

Anyone remember the Combined Rule match between the Bogball and Aussie Rules. The Aussie fella was totally nuts. Started screaming like mad everytime an Aussie player made a mark. When they scored he went ape****!

Michéal O'Muirecheartaigh is the best I've heard but O'Hehir was ment to be twice as good.

Daragh Maloney is decent I think. He at least knows his stuff.

Motson is shocking IMO.

**sadloserkid** · 26/02/2004, 11:59 AM

Motson is brutal!

"I think that's gone in... no wait, it's been disallowed... or has it... it is a goal then... no... oh a goalkick..."

or "Words just fail me"

You're a commentator for God's sake John, words shouldn't fail you!!!

**pineapple stu** · 26/02/2004, 12:23 PM

Archie McPherson on Eurosport - end of debate!!

Supposedly one of the most biased commentators when commentating on Rangers games, and he's also come out with some classics like - (and these are on the Eurosport highlights, not even live commentary!!!)

"The Romanian lined up the free kick...and sent it wide. And, well, as you can see by the reaction on the bench, he put it into the bottom corner of the net"

"The equaliser for Malaga...was not to come as Espanyol scored again" (that was for an own goal)

"And a penalty!!! Spot...is where Fowler was with that chance."

Can anyone ever beat any of them, let alone on such a consistent basis?

**Schumi** · 26/02/2004, 12:44 PM

Murray Walker and Bill McLaren are the best I've heard. I don't know of any really outstanding football commentators but if John Toshack hadn't such a boring voice, he'd be very good.

Eurosport had a couple of brutal ones and I'm not a fan of Motson. That new F1 guy on UTV is $hite too, only Brundle makes it bearable. Micheál O'Muirecheartaigh gives me a pain in the ear!

**pineapple stu** · 26/02/2004, 12:46 PM

Originally posted by Schumi
Micheál O'Muirecheartaigh gives me a pain in the ear!

He's MC-ing this dinner thingy in a couple of weeks' time!

**Schumi** · 26/02/2004, 12:52 PM

Originally posted by pineapple stu
He's MC-ing this dinner thingy in a couple of weeks' time!

$hite, I'll have to bring ear plugs or get pi$$ed before he starts so!

**pineapple stu** · 26/02/2004, 12:54 PM

Sure he was there last year as well!

**pete** · 26/02/2004, 1:01 PM

Oh almost forgot Peter Collins fro F1 on RTE!

**MikeW** · 26/02/2004, 1:54 PM

Ah ye're all just jealous because there's people out there who get paid good money for watching and talking sh1te about sports simultaneosly

Every sports fans dream really.

Actually I'm most jealous of Peter Collins. I'm not into F1 really - but neither is Collins, yet he gets to go to all these exotic places to demonstrate first hand his lack of knowledge of his chosen profession.

I'd say the RTE bosses were having a meeting about who'd be their new F1 commentator when Peter happened to walk past the office on his way to sweep the floor in studio 2 after The Den had finished, and there was something about him that they just loved straight away. Probably the fact that he agreed to do it in exchange for a two-man tent, some assorted Brazilian coins, a change of shorts and the chance to meet a man at Heathrow who says he has access to the baggage holds of planes at Terminal 4. That and George "multi-purpose" Hamilton was exhausted from his work on football, rugby, athletics, swimming, sports awards, various niche sports, chasing after Thelma Mansfield...etc, etc.