Football results on Sky

This afternoon I listened to the football results being read on Sky Sports, by a woman. Actually, I don’t have a problem with that per se but it was the total lack of any feeling or interest in her voice that made it a difficult listen. The real annoyance, though, was her failure to properly read out the names of the teams, for example, she read ‘Colchester’ instead of ‘Colchester United’, and ‘Burton’ instead of ‘Burton Albion’. Totally disrespectful. How do such useless people manage to land these jobs?

Then there is Gary Neville, it’s ‘Liverpool’, not ‘Liverpewel’ you tw@t!

Ah Ketts...it wouldn't be a weekend complete without your commentators complaints thread....XD
I actually had a live stream today WITHOUT commentary.....quite enjoyed it but then I got distracted by something else and didn't realize it had frozen...:D

I like to be consistent!

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Originally Posted by kettering_baggie

This afternoon I listened to the football results being read on Sky Sports, by a woman. Actually, I don’t have a problem with that per se but it was the total lack of any feeling or interest in her voice that made it a difficult listen. The real annoyance, though, was her failure to properly read out the names of the teams, for example, she read ‘Colchester’ instead of ‘Colchester United’, and ‘Burton’ instead of ‘Burton Albion’. Totally disrespectful. How do such useless people manage to land these jobs?

Then there is Gary Neville, it’s ‘Liverpool’, not ‘Liverpewel’ you tw@t!

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I also heard the Sky Sports results and thought exactly the same Ketts buddy ! No tone alteration to compliment the result as the ‘good old days’

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Originally Posted by kettering_baggie

This afternoon I listened to the football results being read on Sky Sports, by a woman. Actually, I don’t have a problem with that per se but it was the total lack of any feeling or interest in her voice that made it a difficult listen. The real annoyance, though, was her failure to properly read out the names of the teams, for example, she read ‘Colchester’ instead of ‘Colchester United’, and ‘Burton’ instead of ‘Burton Albion’. Totally disrespectful. How do such useless people manage to land these jobs?

Then there is Gary Neville, it’s ‘Liverpool’, not ‘Liverpewel’ you tw@t!

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Thought exactly the same. It’s not because it was a woman but the way that she did it. For a start she rushed through the results as if she needed to get somewhere else in a hurry. Secondly, the intonation in her voice whatever the result was.We are used to knowing the result by the reader’s intonation who had won or if it was draw even if no numbers were involved.

It’s not just the results reading though, it’s endemic throughout the whole of the media now.

The drop in standards is alarming.

Even down to the way they dress with presenters who should be old enough to know better wearing pumps with suits etc.

There used to be a gravitas and real quality with presenters and correspondents but it’s gone down the pan, some of the new correspondents on Midlands Today for example are absolutely dreadful.

Midlands Today have been looking back on their previous 60 years over the past week, seeing previous presenters such as old Tom Coyne, Alan Towers and Kay Alexander was a reminder of how it used to be.

When you compare Sir Robin Day with Fiona Bruce on Questiontime for example!