Astroblack

If 72% of the population is Spanish shouldn’t that cover all the sports in the region? Especially baseball. Sounds like a PR spin to me.

But English is the primary language in the United States. On principal alone I think that’s a legitimate reason. But as you persist. Miami Heat use English speaking stadium announcers. Whatever Miami’s NFL team use English speaking stadium announcers. Same goes for their baseball team, The Miami Marlins. Miami’s Spanish speaking contingent come from Puerto Rico, Cuba, and Dominican Republic. Countries/whatever Puerto Rico is where baseball is the primary sport. So why does the baseball team use English directions and the football team doesn’t? Feels icky and shoehorned and I am not for it.

It’s the commentary, music and Spanish stadium announcing(if it’s a welcome for Messi, fine, if not, prefer not to speak) for me…

Absolutely. Agree 100%.

Benteke’s touch ?

That can’t be true. When you call a hotline, they don’t say “we is experiencing performance outage in your area” they’d say “we are experiencing performance outage in your area”. Or “The New York Mets are exploring coaching options at this current moment”. I’ve never seen this “is” you speak of.

Some embarrassing misses from Spurs, mind.

Personally think the Burnley one is the best of the lot. Thought Burnley had a new badge going into the new season.

I’ve been supporting Newcastle since 1993 and at first I thought we were in London because there’s a train station called ‘St James’ Park’. I didn’t actually know we were rivals with Sunderland until 2005 when Emre scored that free kick and subsequently in 2007 when the local derby feature was added to FIFA.

I used to love fanzone. There was this one Chelsea fan who would call Saloman Kalou - “Hasn’t got a Calue”. Some excellent lines on that show.

The thing is, when you’re in the studio dynamic and you have an attractive host like Kelly Cates asking questions, she may subconsciously ask Jamie Redknapp a question before she asks Micah Richards. He may have said something before Redknapp before they went on live on aire and she may have asked Redknapp about it before Richards leaving him to waffle like he usually does. He said Carragher always steals his opinions too. Like he’ll say something while they’re watching the game and then Carragher will repeat it when they go live.

What I hated most about Arlo was his inferiority complex. He’d say things like “I could never do that, I’m not a professional football player but do you who is? Lee Dixon and he’s standing right by me”. Like have some respect for yourself and your profession. You’d never hear Jon Champion say something like that. You’d never hear Martin Tyler say that. Awful, awful commentator.

And I think there’s some weird dynamic between him, Mustoe and Rebecca Lowe. If you watch carefully, he always ends his sentences with ‘Rebecca’ as if he’s educating her. And if you don’t believe looks play a part in football punditry, Micah Richards himself said he doesn’t like going on shows with Jamie Redknapp as “he’s too good looking” and takes the shine away from him. Not the best example I know as Richards is a really poor pundit but he said it.

I won’t ever come to grips with that. And like I said before, it’s the Americans championing Peter Drury and there you went and championed him. But look at the rest of the thread, everyone else hates him. I wouldn’t want Brits commentating on NBA, NFL, MLB, NHL. I want to see the sport in its rawest and purest form. it’s football, it’s simple. It doesn’t need to be dumbed down. Look at Thierry Henry’s reaction to Ray Hudson. He hated the over dramatics and histrionics as do I. And real ones will remember Robbie Earle as a commentator(even though it seems they didn’t like him as a commentator for some reason). I thought he was great. He has a face for radio and is a poor pundit IMO as he stutters over words because I think he’s too worried about the camera constantly on him on a subconscious level.

This is my problem. Football was shown on Fox Soccer Channel(formerly Fox Sports World) far longer than NBC took over the rights in 2013(I got cable in 2003 and they were using direct Sky feeds). Arlo dumbed down a product that didn't need to be dumbed down. And now that idiot is doing commentary on Ted Lasso and that show makes football look like a joke.

I think it’s the Americans who are championing him as such. I wish they could all see that Squires comic of him to see what the rest of the world think of him. Edit: Whoever the main commentator for La Liga games on Sky in the mid 2010s was class. His Irish? co commentator - not so much. Ian Crocker is one of my favorite commentators. He’s the main commentator for the SPL iirc and does some Prem games but I think he should be the Premier League’s leading announcer.

Aye, never understood why he never made his move to Everton permanent to play at LA Galaxy. At that time, Everton were desperate for a striker.

Difference is when we had Shearer, all the top teams had pretty good attacking options, too. Right now, aside from Man City, every team in the top six(and Chelsea) would strongly benefit from Kane. I don’t remember the same clamoring for Kane to leave like when Shearer was hear if any at all.

Do agree that that the completion should be merged with Copa America. There’s usually like 14 actual South American teams in the Copa America and they have to invite a couple other countries from elsewhere to fill up the bracket like Japan or Qatar. Would be much better with the likes of America, Mexico, Jamaica, Costa Rica who can actually compete.

Aye, it’s only the Jamaicans who have taken in seriously. Mexico are missing Lozano, Corona, Jimenez, that Ajax lad. The America side that we faced in the World Cup with Pulisic and co are no where to be seen. Even Costa Rica don’t have Navas in goal. Really, really disappointing.

I don’t understand. Isn’t the Gold Cup the equivalent of a European cup trophy? It used to be the passage way to the Confederations Cup that Mexico or the US used to be in every four years. What’s a Nations League? Who even won that? Spain/Holland had Rodri, Laporte, Ake playing in the Nations League final four days after their Champions League final. Find it crazy Alphonso Davies, Jonathan Davis, Lozano, Corona, and the exciting American team coming up don’t want to win a major honor like the Gold Cup.

Gold Cup has been absolutely shit standard. America and Mexico come with B teams, what are they saving them for? MLS has been far better tonight. The u21 was the best football on today.

David was being sarcastic. Go back a couple pages.