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Loading ...I can honestly say that the only Sky commentators/presenters I really enjoy listening too are Athers and Bumble. And Bumble only gets in there because he is an unwitting comic genius. The rest are not a patch on Greig, Benaud et al. Bring back Channel 4!
An odd couple: Colville and Willis
By Will 4 years ago, at the end of November Add your comment below
There’s a scathing attack by Jim White in today’s Telegraph on Sky’s coverage of the first Test. It’s done with humour though, and had me in stitches – especially this on Charles Colville and Bob Willis:
While Bhasin is all eager and enthusiastic, bouncing round Boycott in puppyish thrill at being there, Colville has taken it upon himself to become the Mr Angry of the Ashes, fuming about England’s selection decisions, poor bowling and limp fielding.
Anything and everything is capable of sending him into a tailspin of rage. After the first Test ended in ignominious defeat on Monday, he became so incensed he had to be restrained by his guest, Nick Knight.
“Whoa Charles,” Knight said, wearing the startled look of a man who had stumbled into a recording of the new series on Bravo, When Normally Mild Mannered Cricket Chaps Attack. In fact, it was lucky Knight was there to tip a verbal bucket of water over the steaming presenter. Had Colville’s guest been – as it sometimes has – Bob Willis, the blood pressure in the studio would have turned thermo-nuclear.
It takes an act of significant will not to cower behind the sofa every time Willis – almost as angry as Colville – comes on screen. Especially now he has taken to delivering his goggle-eyed rants direct into the camera.
All he needs is to borrow Boycott’s headgear and he will morph seamlessly into the John McCririck of cricket.
There is an obvious solution for Duncan Fletcher as he searches for the speediest way back into the series: put Colville and Willis out there in Adelaide and even the battled-hardened Aussies would take flight at the very sight of them.
Chuck’s great value – I’d rather him, with his passion and anger, than a bland, shiny toe-the-line presenter. More at the Telegraph.
Tags: ashes, bob-willis, charles-colville, sky, the-ashes, tv |
3 Responses to “An odd couple: Colville and Willis”
November 30th, 2006 at 12.38 pm
November 30th, 2006 at 9.31 pm
Colville is a moron, always has been. My cat knows more about cricket than he does, and he’s been presenting on Sky for years and years.
The day there is a tragic scenery accident which removes his head will be a happy one, unless they replace him with that Mike Wedderburn, who has the unfortunate title of Worse Than Charlie.
Ian Ward is a better bet, dull though he be, he knows the game.
December 2nd, 2006 at 6.46 am
Willis has had nothing positive to say for years. I have no idea how he’s worked in TV for so long.
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