Pilko

Someone on the Soccer Saturday crew needs to get in Simon Thomas' ear and tell him that Steve Bruce isn't the West Brom manager, he's said it about 6 times

Not suggesting he deserves an over the top heroes welcome or anything but particularly seeing as it's a friendly I hope he gets some warm applause on his return. A good player who was let down and hung out to dry by a former centre half who wouldn't know what a proper ball-playing defender was if one bit him on his enormous nose.

Bought a ticket ages ago without realising it's my works Christmas do the night before. Why does it have to be such an early kick off ffs

Razor is great. I think he's better than Mick Lowes.

I can't stand him, find him to be incredibly negative and miserable and rarely finds any joy in anything. Suppose it goes to show that a "good commentator" is quite hard to agree on, although seemingly this thread is in consensus about the shittest ones.

For me it's having a good vocabulary and a passionate voice but knowing when to shut up and let the pictures speak for themselves. Jon Champion & Ally McCoist are a great combo that cover all of these bases. Quite like Daniel Mann on Sky too. Matterface, Fletcher and Cliche Clive are the absolute pits though along with the screechy bird ITV have had on lately. If you come away from footy someone like Wayne Mardle on the darts is a great commentator; knowledgeable, has the insight but always super excited to be there and goes wild when there's some high standard play, but doesn't jabber on constantly and gives periods of quiet. Compare that with miserable boring wankers like Lawro, Guy Mowbray, Nasser Hussain when he used to do the cricket, the whinging Mark Bright etc and it's like a totally different art.

Listening to "mackems at work" this morning suggests they looked good value first half and then Mowbray went uber-negative after the break and made mental subs that caused them to get beat. Sounds like he needs hounding out to me.

Crossley (or "Shithouse" as Cloughy nicknamed him) is hilarious. His Undr the Cosh podcast is one of the best ones.

I saw Adam P playing in a charity match for Newcastle Food Bank a few months ago (he was crap) and there were loads of 10-15 year olds more buzzing to see him and get photos with him than the ex-pros wandering around One lad stood next to me who must have been about 12 kept chanting "You're just a shit IShowSpeed" at him for the duration which was canny funny for a bairn.

I really wanted Pulisic, but knowing that Brian the Septic on Twitter would be done with him if we got him, I'd rather we called the whole thing off.

French cunts did nowt but kick us all night. Hope they don't win the tournament. Yet again a tosspot referee as well. Hope one of the England fans sticks the nut on him in the car park.

one won the World Cup, one scored a bunch of goals against divvies and farmers and then looked absolutely fucking crap in every single major tournament other than Euro 2004 (and he played in 7 tournaments). How can you compare?

It's absolutely not a foul. He's done nothing this half but sprawl on the turf after shoulder to shoulder challenges and play for it, he's weak as a kitten.

Saka is rubbish. All well and good when he's wandering past Iranians in the groups but he looks like a lost little boy, far too weak and slow with his decision making. Never a foul for the goal either. Foden needs to come inside more, the one time he did it we created a good chance. Blatant foul on Kane too, hope the ref and VAR lot get cock rot. Corrupt wankers.

Got on Griezmann booking in-play after his third foul, could hardly believe my eyes at the 8/1 price. Was expecting like 9/4 or something.

Blatant foul that. Fuck off

Weak as fucking water Saka. Never a foul, already been bullied off it two or three times.

Michael Martin and Wormtail on the board no thanks. Good luck Paul K, you're going to need it son trying to work with those two divvies.

I thought that looked slightly offside on first view. Edit: new glasses for me please

Clive, if you really want to take Ronaldo up the gary glitter that much, just ask him.

another Dias foul there and nowt. Cheers ref.

I wish Cliche Clive would shut the fuck up about Ronaldo. It's all he's talked about all game the boring fucking dullard.

Shaqiri 2+ SOT 8/1 with 365 seems long.

That simply won't happen because of the "guess who wins again" principle.