Craig Burley

[ThaiPauly]

Does anyone else find him as irritating as I do?

Love listening to what Curbishley , Walsh, Townsend et al have to say , but Burley shows just how little he knows about football when he shows up on a Friday night.

When talking about Terry standing down from the England squad he went into a long monolouge telling everyone that we should not worry and all will be fine because we have good youngsters coming through, but Walshy cut him off sharpish with the comment "what do you care-you are Scottish?" Brilliant ,that shut him up

I also find him to be biased against certain clubs.

Or is it just me??

[SantiSuk]

He irritates the crap out of me too. Whiner and too prone to the cheap easy shot comments - Liverpool can never score. Arsenal can't defend.

[carmine]

i can't understand what he says

[MrRed]

crap pundit,not in the same league as Neville

[carmine]

crap pundit,not in the same league as Neville

Ah yes, the sophisticated, urbane Neviller!

Joking apart, he's reasonable but <deleted> is this the very best they can come up with! Frightening really...

[StevieH]

burley's horrible. a very poor man's andy gray.

[carmine]

burley's horrible. a very poor man's andy gray.

<deleted>!!!!!! What an insult that is!

[HeavyDrinker]

David Pleat makes me epileptic with fury.....especially when I picture his f*cking potato like head....

[carmine]

David Pleat makes me epileptic with fury.....especially when I picture his f*cking potato like head....

i agree that a face like Pleats should not be allowed to be viewed on tv, definately before 21.00 hrs but he is a very astute judge of the game. he really does know what he'ss talking about.

[rixalex]

Nope, don't particularly find him irritating. Don't always agree with what he says mind, but find him quite articulate.

On the subject of footie shows, that Fanzone thing makes me laugh, with all the crappy Sykpe connections they get, when you can't understand a word being said. And despite all the millions of potential viewers one presumes that could get in touch, they seem to have the same Chelsea fan in Canada, or Liverpool fan in Dubai, every week. The other weird thing is the way the presenter will be talking away to the pundit, and the pundit appears to be completely ignoring them, face down engrossed in their Ipad. Kind of reminds me of my life these days. Talking to people who don't hear a word you say as they have "entered the matrix".

[HeavyDrinker]

David Pleat makes me epileptic with fury.....especially when I picture his f*cking potato like head....

i agree that a face like Pleats should not be allowed to be viewed on tv, definately before 21.00 hrs but he is a very astute judge of the game. he really does know what he'ss talking about.

I don't care. I just want to kick him in the throat...

(remember you anger management HD....)

[rixalex]

David Pleat makes me epileptic with fury.....especially when I picture his f*cking potato like head....

i agree that a face like Pleats should not be allowed to be viewed on tv, definately before 21.00 hrs but he is a very astute judge of the game. he really does know what he'ss talking about.

Perhaps but why have him commentating during games? He makes the most exciting bit of action going on on the pitch sound so boring.

[carmine]

David Pleat makes me epileptic with fury.....especially when I picture his f*cking potato like head....

i agree that a face like Pleats should not be allowed to be viewed on tv, definately before 21.00 hrs but he is a very astute judge of the game. he really does know what he'ss talking about.

Perhaps but why have him commentating during games? He makes the most exciting bit of action going on on the pitch sound so boring.

Fair point but can he be any worse to listen to than Dean Sturridge? Its almost offensive that ESPN or whoever it is could possibly think that you would want to listen to that pie brained clown.

[StevieH]

David Pleat makes me epileptic with fury.....especially when I picture his f*cking potato like head....

i agree that a face like Pleats should not be allowed to be viewed on tv, definately before 21.00 hrs but he is a very astute judge of the game. he really does know what he'ss talking about.

Perhaps but why have him commentating during games? He makes the most exciting bit of action going on on the pitch sound so boring.

yeah it's a shame about pleat - he's a really good analyst and his written stuff is always interesting. but having him co-commentating is a disaster because he can't speak coherently and can't pronounce names of more than one syllable.

[BangrakBob]

David Pleat makes me epileptic with fury.....especially when I picture his f*cking potato like head....

i agree that a face like Pleats should not be allowed to be viewed on tv, definately before 21.00 hrs but he is a very astute judge of the game. he really does know what he'ss talking about.

Perhaps but why have him commentating during games? He makes the most exciting bit of action going on on the pitch sound so boring.

Fair point but can he be any worse to listen to than Dean Sturridge? Its almost offensive that ESPN or whoever it is could possibly think that you would want to listen to that pie brained clown.

I don't mind Dean Sturridge, i think he's pretty good actually.

Pleat does do my head in though - it's like he's been having smoke before the match, "jumpers for goal posts" flash backs and when he doesn't remember the players name he calls them by their country. "The japanese lad moves the ball to French lad, whose wearing a lovely pink pair of boots today and looks like he might have been to the barbers before todays match" How he ever managed is beyond me, he talks utter sh*te while commentating

[uptheos]

Who is the co commentator, northern accent, speaks like he's on valium and speaks too much?

Usually co commentates the lower end games, like Norwich, Southampton, Liverpool etc.

[smokie36]

i can't understand what he says

See! See!! He's almost as bigoted as me.

[rixalex]

i can't understand what he says

See! See!! He's almost as bigoted as me.

What has being bigtoed got to do with it?

[smokie36]

i can't understand what he says

See! See!! He's almost as bigoted as me.

What has being bigtoed got to do with it?

He's a mickeytaker as well!

[salty]

I have to say like Craig Burley. Whether you agree with him or not he gives a straight forward opinion without lapsing into meaningless waffle. As an ex-Celt he has certainly ruffled a few feathers at Parkhead. Neil Lennon was ridiculous last year when he had a rant about him. Much more sensible to say I do not agree with him. Manager and players can be very thin skinned at times.

[StevieH]

trouble is salty that burley's opinions are almost universally total <deleted>.

[MrRed]

I like Efan Ekoku

[salty]

trouble is salty that burley's opinions are almost universally total <deleted>.

Stevie, That is a matter of opinion.

[smokie36]

He's a nobody...calm down calm down!

[ThaiPauly]

So, not just me then.

I really got ticked off yesterday watching the Reading v Swansea game, some bloke called Barry Horne was the co-commentator, what an idiot he was. I know it was not an important game in the eyes of the footballing world, but where on earth did he come from? Talk about biased against us. He's worse than Mark Lawrenson who hates Reading because Robin Friday had a dump in his kit bag in his playing days...good for Robin LOL

Lawrenson also forgets that Friday was actually at Cardiff at the time between stints at Reading

[carmine]

I like Efan Ekoku

Stop trolling

[carmine]

So, not just me then.

I really got ticked off yesterday watching the Reading v Swansea game, some bloke called Barry Horne was the co-commentator, what an idiot he was. I know it was not an important game in the eyes of the footballing world, but where on earth did he come from? Talk about biased against us. He's worse than Mark Lawrenson who hates Reading because Robin Friday had a dump in his kit bag in his playing days...good for Robin LOL

Lawrenson also forgets that Friday was actually at Cardiff at the time between stints at Reading

Whats wrong with taking a dump in Lawrenson's kit bag?

[ThaiPauly]

So, not just me then.

I really got ticked off yesterday watching the Reading v Swansea game, some bloke called Barry Horne was the co-commentator, what an idiot he was. I know it was not an important game in the eyes of the footballing world, but where on earth did he come from? Talk about biased against us. He's worse than Mark Lawrenson who hates Reading because Robin Friday had a dump in his kit bag in his playing days...good for Robin LOL

Lawrenson also forgets that Friday was actually at Cardiff at the time between stints at Reading

Whats wrong with taking a dump in Lawrenson's kit bag?

Exactly, who would NOT want to given the chance

[carmine]

So, not just me then.

I really got ticked off yesterday watching the Reading v Swansea game, some bloke called Barry Horne was the co-commentator, what an idiot he was. I know it was not an important game in the eyes of the footballing world, but where on earth did he come from? Talk about biased against us. He's worse than Mark Lawrenson who hates Reading because Robin Friday had a dump in his kit bag in his playing days...good for Robin LOL

Lawrenson also forgets that Friday was actually at Cardiff at the time between stints at Reading

Whats wrong with taking a dump in Lawrenson's kit bag?

Exactly, who would NOT want to given the chance

Well let me see...if you'd read his comments on Lawro then i have to say stevieH is a prime candidate.