With all those squill ions of pounds they earn you'd think that they would spend a bit of it on some voice coaching. Instead we had panel after panel of ex pros so wooden you could build a fence with them
But a special places in football commentary hell needs to be set aside for Phil Neville, the barrel was well and truly scrapped when Phil was handed microphone duty for the England Italy game I'm not sure What got the most complaints the team or Phil's grim reaper comments if the team didn't have this kiss of death already Phil wheeled his words of misery and doom like doctor death on a call out. But give him his due he was big enough to laugh about it later despite the tons of abuse he received, he said on twitter at least he was happy that he'd helped some people get to sleep.
They do say silence is golden, so perhaps it might have been a good idea if old golden balls himself David Beckham had let his feet do the talking rather than his mouth during his recent Brazilian rainforest adventure. He looked his usual grizzled and rugged self as he travelled down the amazon and it was all going so well until he opened his mouth. Not so much a Bear Grylls growl more a Joe Pasquale squeak It's a pity his vocal skills don't compare with his footballing ones. From head to toe he's faultless. It's just when he opens his mouth that it all goes wrong. I think Sky have now recognised his short comings and are playing to his strengths, in his latest sky sports ads he smiles and looks pretty but says nothing. And why should he speak, as the song goes you say it best when you say nothing at all. And does Becks really need a voice? No, not really being silent never harmed the careers of Charlie Chaplin Mr Bean or even his wife
Who knows come the next World Cup, listening to all those terrible commentators may be unnecessary, with the rise of the 'emoji' those little humorous with a little 'h' characters that people add to texts and messages. They are fast becoming an international language of their own and with another 250 characters being added next month these little icons could do away with the need for words all together and we could be communicating on a global level with just pictures. In the future the saying a picture paints a thousand words could actually become true!
So that's it for another 4 years as Brian clough the Gu'ovener of tv pundits so aptly put it on paper we are a good team unfortunately we play on grass
Someone offered me a CD the other day and my first thought was what an I going to do with that? It's a stupid size won't fit in my pocket and needs something even bigger to play it on. Never mind the fact that only contains about 12 songs, just think you'd have to carry a bag of about 75 CDs around to match the ultra slim pocket size phone music combo in your pocket. And don't get me started on the ratio of books to kindles. How quickly we move on!
Demand for CDs may be dying but Vinyl records are going from strength to strength. So much so that not satisfied with having the Beatles back catalogue digitally remastered on black plastic you can now get it in the original mono format. I can't believe that people really want to listen to tinny scratchy jumpy toned versions of John Paul George and Ringo classics
In Ancient Greece it was said that you could never be considered a great leader unless you had a big belly. Having just returned from holiday and looked at myself in the mirror I now consider my self ready to stand for election!
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