Commentary on ITV?

[Mors]

Did anyone else lose their rag with the commentary on ITV last night? I was trying to enjoy the match but had to watch most of it in silence as every time I turned up the volume at any stage of the game, all I could I could hear was the commentators blowing their loads over the Arsenal. It was horrific. In the first half an hour, fair enough - but all game?? Even when we were having good periods of possession I thought I'd dare turn the volume back up - but no, still as bad. I think 'Andy Gray syndrome' has rubbed off on the other channels?
Why is it that whenever we do something good, it's made out to be a fluke? We could tonk a team 10-0 at it would be because the other team didn't turn up. I thought it was only the scum that everyone hated, I'm starting to feel that we might be taking over.

 

[HC]

I didn't think it was that bad..

 

[SaintGeorge67]

I was pissed so doing all the commentating myself.

 

[Peatcheo]

they climaxed each time arsenal scored.

 

[TheBunnyman]

The French commentators were so obviously, painfully wanting to Arsenal to win that it was hilarious. Especially at the end, obv.

They did give us credit for our performance though. And the front-page headline in today's L'Equipe was 'Liverpool the magicians of Europe'...

 

[mark1975]

Jim Beglin was doing my fucking head in.

 

[rebel23]

ITV commentator said stuff like "they dont need to hand out plastic flags here...", "England's most successful club" and paid other tributes, they were as fair as possible and yeah, Arsenal did play some amazing stuff until Flamini went off (and they did take the lead) because we pathetically let them

 

[Sunny]

Yes, the pair of them pissed me off all through the game. We dominated that game after our first goal and they were absolutely crying it in for Arsenal.

 

[Molbystwin]

They dont have to give out plastic flags here .... quality.

As for biased commentary, true enough, bare in mind that we were playing the media darlings of Arsenal who, to be fair, do at times play a really sublime style of football. The commentary was unimportant as the best team won IMO.

In as much as we were the best team, regardless of what the commentators said.

I honestly didn't think we were going out even when they made it 2-2.

 

[Mystic]

The commentry on ITV was horrid, you could tell they were a bunch of arsenal supporters. However the comment about the flags was brilliant, i'm sure it was a delibrate dig at chelsea 😀

 

[Tal]

I think Clive is about as good as it gets with the mainstream commentators/summarisers. He was born and educated up near Preston. I think most people would say he is a thinly disguised Utd fan but he does at least maintain high reporting standards and regularly acknowledges Liverpool in the right way - not surprising since he did spend quite a few years working for Radio City (a Liverpool radio station, for the younger, non-local fans' enlightenment) many years ago so has a link with the city and the club, commentating on our successes. Despite him being a suspected Utd fan I don't dislike him, relatively speaking, because he was a 'voice' of our success when I was first listening in my childhood.

Beglin is a strange one. His whole (somewhat curtailed) success in football came as an accomplished full back for Liverpool so he is yet another ex-Red in the media. However, it came out a couple of seasons ago - when commentating - that he is a Chelsea fan. That very much influences his CL commentary I think. To put it crudely, he must have been shitting himself we'd win and once again face off against 'his' team in the semi's. And rightly so, Jim, rightly so.

On that basis, given those facts, I don't think they did that badly towards us. Besides, it adds to the joy of winning knowing the biased commentators feel on the losing side also.

 

[juniormember]

It was always a case of, "unfortunately for Arsenal... blah, blah blah". They were so pro-Arsenal, if anyone thought they were being fair, they either didn't listen at all or are complete and utterly thick.

 

[Tal]

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It was always a case of, "unfortunately for Arsenal... blah, blah blah". They were so pro-Arsenal, if anyone thought they were being fair, they either didn't listen at all or are complete and utterly thick.
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I'll await your full transcript of the 93 minutes and the score count of biased comments then. The likelihood is you remember the pro-Arsenal one's more than the pro-Liverpool one's because they antagonise you rather than appease you.

Admittedly they do laud Arsenal's style of play, but so does everyone when it's not against their own team., Have a listen to the individual comments about the likes of Carragher, Hyypia, Gerrard at penalty time, the club itself and so on. The positives are in there.