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    We have no right to complain

    By Will 2 months ago Leave a comment on this post

    I’ve just returned from the beach, where I have mostly been lounging for the past few days, and thought I’d watch Queen’s. Summer and tennis go hand-in-hand, never more so than when you’re not working, but I’ve only managed to last eight minutes. The match hasn’t even begun, even - but if I have to listen to these mindless imbeciles commentate, I might just put my foot through the TV.

    We have absolutely no right to complain about our cricket commentators. I’m sure you all have your favourites, and you certainly will have the odd one or two who make your ears bleed, but on the whole we’re extremely lucky. They’re knowledgeable, interesting, sometimes witty and decent. None of that can be said of tennis commentators, all of whom seem to have fake mid-Atlantic accents which make Lloyd Grossman’s dulcet tones palatable.

    “He’s not only a great player - he’s a great guy.” Oh do climb out of their arses, for the love of god.

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    4 Responses to “We have no right to complain”

  • CurryCricketer wrote:
    June 11th, 2008 at 2.05 pm

    LMAO. Tennis and mute also go hand-in-hand, especially when Sharapova is playing. And lets face it, for tennis on TV, there’s not much to talk about, the pictures do all the talking.

  • Graham E Smith wrote:
    June 12th, 2008 at 1.35 pm

    Here we go again…no one playing a game is worth the outrageous sums being paid…..I love Cricket and sport generally……but surely with the world in such a mess this money, or some of it; should be used to improve the lot of the majority who have nothing : and not line the pockets of peope who already have a more than comfortable existance?

  • Miles Down-Legside wrote:
    June 17th, 2008 at 2.38 pm

    Almost all sports commentators on TV are excrutiatingly poor journalists, and from what I have seen of football commentators on the TV in my local pub, they are the worst.

    Cricket is fortunately the general sporting exception as the game still attracts players - and therefore TV and radio commentators - with a decent tertiary education (Atherton, Vic Marks, Mike Selvey, CMJ, Nasser etc.),

    Most of the seemingly ’sub O level’ football commentators can barely string a cogent argument together.

    As Tennis is a game of ego and patronage… ergo, that’s what you get on TV.

    Just an A level ramble from me I’m afraid; as I forfeited my history degree finals, as during summer of 2005 was spent (not wasted) watching 22 blokes fight the real ‘100 days war’.

    Cheers,

    M D-L

  • AS Gill wrote:
    June 19th, 2008 at 6.04 am

    Rameez Raja,Ranjit Fernando,Bill Lawry,Michael Atherton,SRK(Sivaramakrishnan),Harsha Bhogle,Tony Greig are very irritating.

    Nasser Hussain,Holding,Benaud,Gavaskar,Shastri,Akram,Bumble,Cozier are the best of the lot.

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