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gkmacca

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Apologies, I know this is a trivial thread, but does anyone listen to this radio station much these days? I hadn't heard it for ages, then I thought I'd give it a go when all the Klopp speculation was at its peak and I was AMAZED at how shambolic it was.

There's a bloke on there called, I think, Ian Abrahams - who is called, for some unknown reason, 'The Moose'. The man can barely speak! He sounds as if he's got half a baguette in his mouth.

Then there's Alan Brazil, who has clearly been slowly pickling himself in booze for about forty years and is barely able to pronounce his own name, let alone anyone else's.

They also have Bob Mills on there, who used to do half-decent TV shows but now slurs his words so badly I get a hangover just listening to him.

And apparently they were awarded the UK rights to radio broadcasts of the Champions League, but they don't actually travel to cover the games - they stick the commentary team in an office in London and they cover it by watching it on the telly, whilst the crowd track is played in the background and Collymore tweets as if he's at the stadium.

And similarly, they claim to have a reporter in Pakistan following the Test matches, but he's actually sitting with his feet up at home, watching it on Sky whilst phoning in his bulletins as though he's in Dubai!!

The whole thing is gobsmackingly bizarre!
 
I too hadn't listened for a couple of years, but also decided to have listen when the klopp speculation was at its peak.

It's incredibly bad. They seem to get huge ratings regardless of the quality by simply being a low brow station that has become a parody of its worst points.

They have one presenter whose name escapes me who seems to continually take the piss out of how bad they are as if it's an achievement.

Worse still, they seem to rake in industry awards every year.
 
I've a mate who used to work there. Until he got hammered at a Christmas party and started fighting with a colleague. Or something like that.
 
tTalksport is entertaining in parts, the pundits job is to be bring in viewers.

However the in depth analysis by stan collymore and mark saggers is truly awful.
 
They do get huge listening figures, so I guess they're doing something right, but they also have little or go competition I can think of for the average man/woman in the car.
 
I listen occasionally on match day, and for transfer rumours. Most of their other shows are generally boring tbh.
 
Colin Murray, Didi Hamann and Danny Murphy are all alright.

I don't think you're supposed to take the station seriously, it's equivalent to leaving sky sport news on in the background.
 
I listen occasionally on match day, and for transfer rumours. Most of their other shows are generally boring tbh.

Similar for me, though when I can't watch the TV I quite often listen to it on match days as they have games that aren't on 5Live. In many respects it's a joke of a station, but it has its uses.
 
I don't like TalkSport at all. I don't like its association with Kelvin MacKenzie, I don't like the awful commercials that go on for ages, I don't like Collymore's voice which is like sandpaper on bare plaster. The general effect is just tacky.

I will only listen to it if they are covering a Liverpool away game that isn't on TV or any other radio station.
 
It is absolute wank but does seem to work for me if I can't get to sleep. Does a great job of turning my brain off within about half an hour.
 
Ian Abrahams, though - I cannot believe that guy. To hire a bloke who can barely speak to be a radio announcer! Was Stephen Hawking next on the list???
 
Football could learn a lot from watching the analysis of rugby world cup (in UK).

None of the cliche rubbish from saggers and stan.
 
One expects nothing better from Collymore, but Saggers is truly excruciating. What started with him as a pathetic attempt to slide downmarket from his BBC days, in order to fit in with his tatty new employers, has become a teeth-grindingly embarrassing pretence of being a sport "shock jock". He's far less of a broadcaster than a B movie hack actor these days, and a poor example even of that.
 
One expects nothing better from Collymore, but Saggers is truly excruciating. What started with him as a pathetic attempt to slide downmarket from his BBC days, in order to fit in with his tatty new employers, has become a teeth-grindingly embarrassing pretence of being a sport "shock jock". He's far less of a broadcaster than a B movie hack actor these days, and a poor example even of that.

Yes! Funnily enough, I got interviewed by some local radio chappie yesterday, and he was chatting afterwards about how much he owed to Mark Saggers, who was, apparently, an absolute master of radio technique in his old BBC days - so much so he'd train newcomers from all over the place. This chap didn't know about the TalkSport stuff and was amazed when I said what Saggers was like now. What a transformation!
 
I've kinda got used to it. Once you suss their raison d'etre, you can let it slide past you and pick up some of the good stuff that's there.

Danny Murphy is quite good. Adrian Durham, when he's not in full wind up, stir up a controversy mode, actually makes some salient points. Plus the fact he's a Peterborough fan, not a big club fan, makes it easier. I like the Daily Arsenal.

But Alan Brazil is clearly just a drunk. Sam Matterface just shouts to try and drum up excitement and barely hides his Chelsea bias.

But the Crown Jewels in the cunt stakes are Cundy and Goldstein. Cundy is such a smug cunt but Goldstein actually out smugs him. Sadly when I'm coming home from a midweek evening game, I end up wanted to smash the car radio in listening to them.

On the plus side, Colin Murray is very good and has great guests, but he's on from 10 til 1 so I rarely get to listen to him.
 
I've kinda got used to it. Once you suss their raison d'etre, you can let it slide past you and pick up some of the good stuff that's there.

Danny Murphy is quite good. Adrian Durham, when he's not in full wind up, stir up a controversy mode, actually makes some salient points. Plus the fact he's a Peterborough fan, not a big club fan, makes it easier. I like the Daily Arsenal.

But Alan Brazil is clearly just a drunk. Sam Matterface just shouts to try and drum up excitement and barely hides his Chelsea bias.

But the Crown Jewels in the cunt stakes are Cundy and Goldstein. Cundy is such a smug cunt but Goldstein actually out smugs him. Sadly when I'm coming home from a midweek evening game, I end up wanted to smash the car radio in listening to them.

On the plus side, Colin Murray is very good and has great guests, but he's on from 10 til 1 so I rarely get to listen to him.

That's interesting. I actually don't have a problem with Goldstein. Maybe it's the contrast with Cundy who, apart from being utterly biased in Chavski's favour - not surprising as he still works for the club - and equally biased against us, always sounds like he's on speed (maybe he is) and is the rudest interrupter in broadcasting, even by that station's standards.
 
The last time I listened I had to keep checking I wasn't wearing overalls, there were so many commercials for paint, bricks, tiling, nails, guttering brushes and grouting tools. Selco get mentioned more often than sport.
 
Portly and I had it tuned in on the way to the game on Sunday to listen to the Manchester derby - we concluded that its target audience is entirely white van man - which answers the questions

I wrote some crap outline to a time travel idea I had, and my mate who'd just had a film produced gave it to his agent, who got interest from a film company that bangs out three shit films per year as some sort of tax dodge (from what I can gather). When I spoke to their creative director he said that their goal is 'to make films that appeal to men called Darren from Slough'. Maybe they have the same business plan?
 
The way we view cundy is the way opposition view Phil Thompson when on sky.

I don't think so at all. Thommo, I'm sure, is regarded by many as a bit of a clown, a pretty harmless super-fan, because he doesn't lash out at other clubs, there's nothing bitter or nasty about him, he just waffles on about his own club all the time. Cundy, on the other hand, is a completely unlikeable, angry, aggressive LFC-hater, shamelessly so, and that makes him a quite different sort of character. Thanks to that idiot Jeff Stelling, Thommo (in stark contrast to Charlie Nicholas, whom Stelling treats with almost a sense of reverence) is always treated like a bit of comic relief. Cundy just launches, unbidden, into diatribes against LFC fans like he's got some personal problem with each and every one of them. He's utterly unprofessional and ought to be restricted to Chelsea TV - even though the daft twat only actually played a handful of games for them!
 
I met one of their senior producers in corporate hospitality ages back, who when he found out I was a Liverpool fan started banging on about our righteous indignation to everything that happens to us as a club/city, had a pop at Kenny, etc...I was pretty restrained up until the point he launched into a tirade on the depths we'd stooped to in supporting Luis after that Evra to-do. "Embarrassing... shameful for a club with a duty of care like ours..." yadda, yadda.

"Yes, because obviously I'm going to take a lecture on ethics from a radio station that is run by Kelvin fucking Mackenzie and employs Andy Gray and Richard Keys you fucking blert....are you gonna smash it lad, smash it, bet you smashed it didnt you" cleared the bar. At least he had the good grace to go scarlet faced as his (quite pretty) PA led him away
 
Cundy is one of those who seems to hate Liverpool for no good reason. I remember Mark Bright being another one. When he was on BBC final score (he might still be, I have no idea) he made no effort at all to hide his smug delight whenever we failed to win.

I can understand it if there were ex-United or Everton players disliking us. At least you can see the logic there. But with people like Jason Cundy, who was not only a bit shit anyway, but was playing when we were generally shit, so on no level did we rob him of anything, it makes little sense!
 
Cundy is one of those who seems to hate Liverpool for no good reason. I remember Mark Bright being another one. When he was on BBC final score (he might still be, I have no idea) he made no effort at all to hide his smug delight whenever we failed to win.

I can understand it if there were ex-United or Everton players disliking us. At least you can see the logic there. But with people like Jason Cundy, who was not only a bit shit anyway, but was playing when we were generally shit, so on no level did we rob him of anything, it makes little sense!

There's tons of people in the game and involved with it, who hate Liverpool because of the domination we enjoyed and also because there is still quite a lot of LFC-bias in the media, due to the amount of Liverpool-supporting journalists. Look at The Times: the recently-departed Evans, Tony Barrett, Rory Smith, Oliver Kay, now Henry Winter's joined too. It's like the Liverpool Echo for southerners.

Le Tissier is another one, who always seems to be delighted when we concede a goal and/or lose a game.
 
Is he? That's a shame. I always liked Le Tissier.

Yeah, that does make sense. But you don't tend to see or hear many United haters in the media. Hopefully they will come along in time.
 
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