100% agree with this, I've probably mentioned this on here before but I watched a game on TV in Turkey a few years ago with a guy who worked as an analysist with Spurs, he was never a professional player but he was a coach, his insight to the games and the tactics/changing of tactics was mesmerising, he made Neville and Carragher seem like school boys. But, because he never had a playing career he'll never be a pundit.
Arh well, lets see what Micha Richards has to scream.