Poor Ray Parlour

[Shaggy]

I haven’t watched ‘You’re On Sky Sports’ for a long time but I saw some of it last night.

Ray Parlour is the latest ex-pro to try his hand at punditry, and watching him blunder and bumble his way through the show last night was akin to watching a car crash. I felt quite sorry for him. Almost everything he said made no sense or was a cliché. He seemed a nice bloke but clearly that’s not enough. The best was this beauty…

Talking about Allardyce…

“At the end of the day, results pay the key.”

It’s not his fault though. Presumably Sky have some sort of interview/informal chat with prospective pundits? Why, then, do they always seem to pick the dim and inarticulate ones? I just don’t get it? Maybe these people speak well ‘off-camera’ and go to pieces on air…I don’t know.

I’d love to see Sky dump ex-pros and journalists, and just find some ‘regular joes’, football fanatics obviously, who can actually string a sentence together and speak well about the game. Maybe we could put forward some candidates? Silverfox?

[spud_gun]

If you want car crash broadcasting get your ears over to talkSPORT.

Ronnie Irani and Ian Wright are possibly two of the worst broadcasters in the history or errrr....broadcasting.

Between them the pair of them can't string a coherent sentence together.

[Tee]

How the **** did Gary Newbon ever make it

His early days at ITV were classic car crash tv.

[Jazzmaster]

Sky use Paul Merson. Nuff said.

[Imy]

Ray Parlour has a face suited for radio

[Joe King]

Ronnie Irani?! Pah.

Steve Claridge presents 6-0-6 now. WTF?! At least Laaavejoy and Spoony and GREENY do a decent job.

Claridge's finest hour: 'Mascherano is not worth it. Too expensive'

[Harv]

I haven’t watched ‘You’re On Sky Sports’ for a long time but I saw some of it last night.

Ray Parlour is the latest ex-pro to try his hand at punditry, and watching him blunder and bumble his way through the show last night was akin to watching a car crash. I felt quite sorry for him. Almost everything he said made no sense or was a cliché. He seemed a nice bloke but clearly that’s not enough. The best was this beauty…

Talking about Allardyce…

“At the end of the day, results pay the key.”

It’s not his fault though. Presumably Sky have some sort of interview/informal chat with prospective pundits? Why, then, do they always seem to pick the dim and inarticulate ones? I just don’t get it? Maybe these people speak well ‘off-camera’ and go to pieces on air…I don’t know.

I’d love to see Sky dump ex-pros and journalists, and just find some ‘regular joes’, football fanatics obviously, who can actually string a sentence together and speak well about the game. Maybe we could put forward some candidates? Silverfox?

[Shaggy]

Ronnie Irani?! Pah.

Steve Claridge presents 6-0-6 now. WTF?! At least Laaavejoy and Spoony and GREENY do a decent job.

Claridge's finest hour: 'Mascherano is not worth it. Too expensive'

Claridge presents 606? Surely not? Lovejoy didn’t last long?

[Warren]

Ronnie Irani?! Pah.

He's a ****, what happened to Beaky?

[Bob]

I haven’t watched ‘You’re On Sky Sports’ for a long time but I saw some of it last night.

Ray Parlour is the latest ex-pro to try his hand at punditry, and watching him blunder and bumble his way through the show last night was akin to watching a car crash. I felt quite sorry for him. Almost everything he said made no sense or was a cliché. He seemed a nice bloke but clearly that’s not enough. The best was this beauty…

Talking about Allardyce…

“At the end of the day, results pay the key.”

It’s not his fault though. Presumably Sky have some sort of interview/informal chat with prospective pundits? Why, then, do they always seem to pick the dim and inarticulate ones? I just don’t get it? Maybe these people speak well ‘off-camera’ and go to pieces on air…I don’t know.

I’d love to see Sky dump ex-pros and journalists, and just find some ‘regular joes’, football fanatics obviously, who can actually string a sentence together and speak well about the game. Maybe we could put forward some candidates? Silverfox?

Worst Pundit ever has to be Paul Gascoigne (remember when ITV rolled him out for a world cup - embarrassing to say the least), the great John Barnes runs him a close second.

[Shaggy]

Worst Pundit ever has to be Paul Gascoigne (remember when ITV rolled him out for a world cup - embarrassing to say the least), the great John Barnes runs him a close second.

Oh I remember Gascoigne on ITV. Poor Gazza. That was a shambles.

[spud_gun]

Oh I remember Gascoigne on ITV. Poor Gazza. That was a shambles.

Davidddddddddd Tress-r-gayyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy

[Craig_H]

I haven’t watched ‘You’re On Sky Sports’ for a long time but I saw some of it last night.

Ray Parlour is the latest ex-pro to try his hand at punditry, and watching him blunder and bumble his way through the show last night was akin to watching a car crash. I felt quite sorry for him. Almost everything he said made no sense or was a cliché. He seemed a nice bloke but clearly that’s not enough. The best was this beauty…

Talking about Allardyce…

“At the end of the day, results pay the key.”

It’s not his fault though. Presumably Sky have some sort of interview/informal chat with prospective pundits? Why, then, do they always seem to pick the dim and inarticulate ones? I just don’t get it? Maybe these people speak well ‘off-camera’ and go to pieces on air…I don’t know.

I’d love to see Sky dump ex-pros and journalists, and just find some ‘regular joes’, football fanatics obviously, who can actually string a sentence together and speak well about the game. Maybe we could put forward some candidates? Silverfox?

Ok ok, i'll do it...

[Dhav]

I'm sure I've seen Parlour on tv recently - hasn't he been a pundit on Setanta's Prem match coverage? Either way, can't say I'm surrpised with this latest appointment. It's totally in keeping with Sky's pundit recruitment policy of mildly successful. semi-literate, incomprehensible and unintelligible ex-pros

[thesilverfoxlfc]

Parlour does Setantas coverage of the Champs League