I hate ITV!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Charlie_B]

He does some Northwesternly football thing on a Thursday night aswell. Shocking.

[Shaggy]

He does some Northwesternly football thing on a Thursday night aswell. Shocking.

Matt Smith is a Red!

[StevieGnR]

Well only watch the game (not the intro / half time/ full time / adverts) and listen to the game on 5 Live. That's what I usually do.

dito

[Shaggy]

I'd love to do that but as I watch everything through Sky, there's the delay which renders such a viewing possibility, er, impossible.

I thoroughly enjoyed the Beeb's World Cup interactive service, which allowed the viewer to turn off Motty's senile witterings and have the Five Live commentary on instead.

[kurtangle01]

I'd love to do that but as I watch everything through Sky, there's the delay which renders such a viewing possibility, er, impossible.

I thoroughly enjoyed the Beeb's World Cup interactive service, which allowed the viewer to turn off Motty's senile witterings and have the Five Live commentary on instead.

That was a great idea from the beeb and I hope they do it for their F.A. cup coverage this season. Alan Green is the best commentator bar none.

[StevieGnR]

I'd love to do that but as I watch everything through Sky, there's the delay which renders such a viewing possibility, er, impossible.

I thoroughly enjoyed the Beeb's World Cup interactive service, which allowed the viewer to turn off Motty's senile witterings and have the Five Live commentary on instead.

That is where the 2nd subscription comes in! 5 live delay not to bad on sky!

[StevieGnR]

That was a great idea from the beeb and I hope they do it for their F.A. cup coverage this season. Alan Green is the best commentator bar none.

[The Glove]

The Kerb Crawler is ace. I like the way he normally starts his co-commentary with 'Good evening everyone' even when he has been asked a question and last night I laughed as he kept reffering to Hyypia as 'The General'.

[miker221]

He's less irritating if you're not blind drunk.

Surely he's less irritating if you are blind drunk?

[TheStig]

Completely agree about Pleat. He is perhaps the best summariser currently working on radio or television that tells you things you can't work out for yourself because (a) you're not at the match or (b) even if you were there he knows more about football than most of us (certainly more than me). All these idiots who tell us things like "he''ll be disappointed with that" or "I don't understand why..." are just empty spaces. Pleat tries to tell you why a team is playing the way it is, what might be the tactics (and I don't mean just the formation which is what some ex-players think tactics are) and suggests simple ways the manager might try to address problems that crop up during the game. For all his verbal slip-ups, he actually adds to understanding.

[Cisseshairdresser]

The Kerb Crawler is ace. I like the way he normally starts his co-commentary with 'Good evening everyone' even when he has been asked a question and last night I laughed as he kept reffering to Hyypia as 'The General'.

I liked that nickname! I hope it catches on!

[REDSCOUSER]

Just a little comment. ITV always been like that, since the day they started while we were ruling England and Europe.

[Red_Polo]

Sorry Red but I quite like Pleat as well mate.

He could offer all the insight in the world but I would still hate listening to him because he often gets basic things wrong and uses seriously annoying phrases. Like repeatedly referring to Tevez as 'a little bull of a player', with a ridiculous amount of emphasis on the word 'bull' as though he was carving one out as he said it. Then there's the rambling sentences where halfway through he gets lost and forgets what the hell he was talking about, so just finishes the sentence with a load of bollocks. For instance, 'Eighty per cent of teams who score first in matches go on to win them. But they may draw some. Or occasionally lose....'.

I found it funny at first, but now I just find it infuriating!

[MrMichael]

I hate ITV generally, but the footy coverage is exceptionally poor, second only to channel 5

[Mattshark]

I hate ITV generally, but the footy coverage is exceptionally poor, second only to channel 5

nah, channel fives is actually better.