I can see why you say that. I agree to a point. It's his 1st time on MNF though so I'll let him off. He certainly has a big personality!
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Yeah it is a bit cringey to watch at times but i'm hoping he cracks it with time.
I could just make out the words 'Modo' & 'cunt'.
Fair play to him.
thanks
I had a feeling and still do that Neville is lulling us all into a false sense of security. His has been very respectful to us and he got us on side. We hated him but begrudgingly admitted he was a decent pundit. Will it be only a matter of time before the hate he is holding back emerges?
Carra: You can just see the reaction from the players, not just the supporters on that one
Chamberlain: what was it like for you watching, not playing? How did you cope with it all?
Carra: I wasn't too bad to be honest, few people asked me about that, but...I'm happy with youse two actually.
Chamberlain: That's nice to hear, we like that!
Carra: What concerns me most is liking Gary Neville after playing for Liverpool!
Chamberlain: You've spent days with him!
Carra: Exactly!
Chamberlain: what was it like for you watching, not playing? How did you cope with it all?
Carra: I wasn't too bad to be honest, few people asked me about that, but...I'm happy with youse two actually.
Chamberlain: That's nice to hear, we like that!
Carra: What concerns me most is liking Gary Neville after playing for Liverpool!
Chamberlain: You've spent days with him!
Carra: Exactly!
I think Carra has some way to go before he is an ace pundit! I saw him with Gary Neville covering the Man City/Newcastle game. He gabbled far too quickly when he was trying to make his observations about tactics. I couldn't follow him most of the time, and I understand Scouse. He does have the advantage of personality, though, and I expect he will get the hang of it eventually.
I thought Carra did great. You know you've got a star when what they do TOO much makes them even more compulsive rather than less (such as Michael Owen's vacuum cleaner-style waffling). The real disaster is David James - what on earth is he doing? He looks as if he couldn't give a toss, he seems determined not to use his experience as a keeper to mark him out as a pundit and when he was sent to interview a keeper he just asked him 'Are you still growing?' Horrible.
The trouble with James was always his own elevated sense of intelligence based on fuck all. The guy's a thumb.
Remember the intellectual giant, after a series of goalkeeping blunders, claiming that it was the result of playing on his Nintendo too much, and he promised to cut down?
It was in the same order of daftness as Downing explaining that his form had improved because Mr. Rodgers had told him to play better. 😀
It was in the same order of daftness as Downing explaining that his form had improved because Mr. Rodgers had told him to play better. 😀
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Kuyt on Carra's new career (1:03)
Carra on Torres
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I'm surprised some critics are making out he's hard to understand. It makes an easy article I suppose but he's surely not THAT difficult to understand even if you're a southerner!
Jamie Carragher puts accent on unintelligible
Giles Smith Sport on television
Last updated at 12:01AM, August 27 2013
According to Jamie Carragher, “Wayne Rooney cash machine the carrot pickings under a biscuit barrel.” Or, as he later put it, “Forge the bungalow mindset crampons Fernando Torres unlikely tuna fish.” It was hard to argue with any of that.
The match had been tirelessly billed as David Moyes v José Mourinho; the Chosen One v the Special One. But we all knew that the real battle would take place around the touch-sensitive tactics board — Gary Neville v Carragher; the Clever One v the Incomprehensible One.
And would this monumental occasion be the moment for Sky’s Sports’ latest acquisition to make himself not only felt, but also, for the first time, understood?
Fuelling the tension, the new double act had appeared during the day on Sky Sports News, dressed casually in T-shirts and going through a few warm-ups and stretches in the submarine-like and bottomlessly earnest Monday Night Football studio.
Neville thought that this match would be an opportunity for one of the big sides to “set down an early marker”. “Oxyacetalyne Google telephone line,” Carragher added.
Then it was into the suits and ties and on with the programme. “Shearer dambuster Kentucky Fried Chicken the Alanis Morissette,” said Carragher, in response to the team news. It’s early days, one appreciates, but Sky may have to face facts here: they’re going to need subtitles.
However, let’s not ignore the rapidity with which the former Liverpool defender has adapted to the non-linguistic parts of the job. Only two appearances in, for example, Carragher is already Neville’s equal in the use of Sooty’s wand (or an instrument very like it) to swipe digital marbles around on the giant touchscreen. And he can already tap up a little blue circle under a player with the best of them.
Of course, what most people are waiting for from the chemistry is the strictly non-verbal moment they both throw Sooty’s wand down and start rolling around on the floor as if in the car park. A whole history of intense rivalry at club level has surely been leading to this moment. Thus far, though, it’s all been disappointingly cordial, even jocular.
Last night Carragher tried to pull Neville up on his assertion that Mourinho had “stepped up” in his unusual team selection, rather than “stepped back” under pressure. But there was no real will for the fight. There were even laughing together, at half-time, about the possibility of bringing on Gary’s brother Phil.
In this unprecedentedly overheated season for broadcasting, the first “massive fixture” was always going to threaten to blow gaskets or, at the very least, fuse the studio lights.
“MFN”, after all, is a show in whose opening credits military helicopters already circle, and where Martin Tyler’s signature call of “And it’s live,” has long since assumed the guttural urgency of a man crying for back-up from inside a pair of burning trousers.
True to modern fashion, the sharpest focus was on the managers. The arrival in the stadium of David Moyes was filmed like something Papal. On the sideline, Mourinho was pictured searching in his pockets for a pen and then using that pen (just think) to make notes in a notebook.
Tyler later found a moment to wonder whether the Chelsea manager might be a little hot in his sweater on a warm Manchester evening. Had Mourinho removed it, one felt we’d have been looking at the moment in slow motion for whole hours afterwards.
Still, as Carragher pointed out, “Datsun spaghetti at washing machine below radar elfin housing development.” Very true.
Jamie Carragher puts accent on unintelligible
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At this rate Sky may need to use subtitles for Carragher, centreSky Sports
Giles Smith Sport on television
Last updated at 12:01AM, August 27 2013
According to Jamie Carragher, “Wayne Rooney cash machine the carrot pickings under a biscuit barrel.” Or, as he later put it, “Forge the bungalow mindset crampons Fernando Torres unlikely tuna fish.” It was hard to argue with any of that.
The match had been tirelessly billed as David Moyes v José Mourinho; the Chosen One v the Special One. But we all knew that the real battle would take place around the touch-sensitive tactics board — Gary Neville v Carragher; the Clever One v the Incomprehensible One.
And would this monumental occasion be the moment for Sky’s Sports’ latest acquisition to make himself not only felt, but also, for the first time, understood?
Fuelling the tension, the new double act had appeared during the day on Sky Sports News, dressed casually in T-shirts and going through a few warm-ups and stretches in the submarine-like and bottomlessly earnest Monday Night Football studio.
Neville thought that this match would be an opportunity for one of the big sides to “set down an early marker”. “Oxyacetalyne Google telephone line,” Carragher added.
Then it was into the suits and ties and on with the programme. “Shearer dambuster Kentucky Fried Chicken the Alanis Morissette,” said Carragher, in response to the team news. It’s early days, one appreciates, but Sky may have to face facts here: they’re going to need subtitles.
However, let’s not ignore the rapidity with which the former Liverpool defender has adapted to the non-linguistic parts of the job. Only two appearances in, for example, Carragher is already Neville’s equal in the use of Sooty’s wand (or an instrument very like it) to swipe digital marbles around on the giant touchscreen. And he can already tap up a little blue circle under a player with the best of them.
Of course, what most people are waiting for from the chemistry is the strictly non-verbal moment they both throw Sooty’s wand down and start rolling around on the floor as if in the car park. A whole history of intense rivalry at club level has surely been leading to this moment. Thus far, though, it’s all been disappointingly cordial, even jocular.
Last night Carragher tried to pull Neville up on his assertion that Mourinho had “stepped up” in his unusual team selection, rather than “stepped back” under pressure. But there was no real will for the fight. There were even laughing together, at half-time, about the possibility of bringing on Gary’s brother Phil.
In this unprecedentedly overheated season for broadcasting, the first “massive fixture” was always going to threaten to blow gaskets or, at the very least, fuse the studio lights.
“MFN”, after all, is a show in whose opening credits military helicopters already circle, and where Martin Tyler’s signature call of “And it’s live,” has long since assumed the guttural urgency of a man crying for back-up from inside a pair of burning trousers.
True to modern fashion, the sharpest focus was on the managers. The arrival in the stadium of David Moyes was filmed like something Papal. On the sideline, Mourinho was pictured searching in his pockets for a pen and then using that pen (just think) to make notes in a notebook.
Tyler later found a moment to wonder whether the Chelsea manager might be a little hot in his sweater on a warm Manchester evening. Had Mourinho removed it, one felt we’d have been looking at the moment in slow motion for whole hours afterwards.
Still, as Carragher pointed out, “Datsun spaghetti at washing machine below radar elfin housing development.” Very true.
I think he's been pretty shit whenever I've seen him. He looks like he's concentrating so hard on all the different directions etc that he's too distracted to actually lift his head up and converse naturally with Neville and the presenter.
He just looks flustered, basically. You'd tend to think he'll learn though. I mean you'd think anyone could learn, really.
He just looks flustered, basically. You'd tend to think he'll learn though. I mean you'd think anyone could learn, really.
Macca: that's Giles Smith though, declared Chelsea fan and the unfunniest allegedly humorous writer this side of Timbuctoo. How in the name of all that's holy he's had a gig at "The Times" all this while, God only knows, and He's not telling.
I think Carra's done OK. He tries a bit too hard at times IMO, but that's understandable enough in these early days.
I think Carra's done OK. He tries a bit too hard at times IMO, but that's understandable enough in these early days.
I love this thread thanks for the videos Modo. The worst part about Australia is zero decent anaylysis
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