Eh dear BBC, male commentators for male football.....

[robbocop33]

And female commentators for female football please, yep, an unpopular view, let's hope she's coloured as well!
What's this world coming too? , are lefties going to have women in mens teams next, men in women's teams? And when Ronaldo scored just now i couldn't wait to hear what high pitched squeak would come out to celebrate it, and i was suitably disappointed in the complete anti-climax her female voice gave the excitement of a world cup goal, it's a joke!
At least it's not Claire chuffing Balding!

[Zetec-S]

To be fair, I reckon anything's better than listening to Lawro reel off a bunch of his scripted clichés and "funny" one-liners...

[Nom de ploom]

coloured???

really?

moron post of the year.

[TaylotS2K]

Red button - Radio 5 commentary. Much, much better than listening to her! She is dreadful.

[TwigtheWonderkid]

What's wrong with her? Seems ok to me.

Co commentators are the problem. McCoist yesterday got the laws of the game totally wrong, when discussing a free kick. Keown gets them wrong too. Hoddle is just terrible.

[schmunk]

robbocop33 said:

And female commentators for female football please, yep, an unpopular view, let's hope she's coloured as well!
What's this world coming too? , are lefties going to have women in mens teams next, men in women's teams? And when Ronaldo scored just now i couldn't wait to hear what high pitched squeak would come out to celebrate it, and i was suitably disappointed in the complete anti-climax her female voice gave the excitement of a world cup goal, it's a joke!
At least it's not Claire chuffing Balding!

Wow.

[bitchstewie]

Don't be daft.

I switched on and thought "Oh, female commentator" but after that didn't really give it a second thought.

[Zetec-S]

After decades of male dominated commentary it obviously feels a bit odd to start with, but once you (quickly) get used to it a female commentator is no better or worse than a male one. What makes someone like Jacqui Oatley less qualified than someone like John Motson, Guy Mowbray or Clive Tyldesley for example?

[TwigtheWonderkid]

I thought all this crap would have died out when Gabby Yorath (Logan) hit the screens 20 years ago. Steeped in football, and knows just as much about the game as any bloke, and more than most. Yet will still get this fking sexist bullst.

fking grow up.

[Puggit]

TwigtheWonderkid said:

I thought all this crap would have died out when Gabby Yorath (Logan) hit the screens 20 years ago. Steeped in football, and knows just as much about the game as any bloke, and more than most. Yet will still get this fking sexist bullst.

fking grow up.

But she doesn't get the abuse because she's good at it.

Unlike the pausing squeaky voiced woman you're defending in the other thread

[Zetec-S]

Puggit said:

TwigtheWonderkid said:

I thought all this crap would have died out when Gabby Yorath (Logan) hit the screens 20 years ago. Steeped in football, and knows just as much about the game as any bloke, and more than most. Yet will still get this fking sexist bullst.

fking grow up.

But she doesn't get the abuse because she's good at it.

Unlike the pausing squeaky voiced woman you're defending in the other thread

But that's just a matter of personal preference, and shouldn't have anything to do with being male or female. Perhaps some people actually enjoyed it?

If someone doesn't like (Jacqui Oatley's) commentary then that's up to them, but to whinge about how women commentators are crap and it should only be male commentators is bks. There are a few crap male commentators around as well...

[popeyewhite]

It would be nice if the BBC also placed male commentators in positions normally held by women. Just to demonstrate how inclusive they are, like. Did'nt hear many male voices commentating during the very excellent women's hockey final at the last Olympics... .

[TwigtheWonderkid]

popeyewhite said:

It would be nice if the BBC also placed male commentators in positions normally held by women. Just to demonstrate how inclusive they are, like. Did'nt hear many male voices commentating during the very excellent women's hockey final at the last Olympics... .

But Jonathan Pearce does the women's world cup.

[TwigtheWonderkid]

Zetec-S said:

Puggit said:

TwigtheWonderkid said:

I thought all this crap would have died out when Gabby Yorath (Logan) hit the screens 20 years ago. Steeped in football, and knows just as much about the game as any bloke, and more than most. Yet will still get this fking sexist bullst.

fking grow up.

But she doesn't get the abuse because she's good at it.

Unlike the pausing squeaky voiced woman you're defending in the other thread

But that's just a matter of personal preference, and shouldn't have anything to do with being male or female. Perhaps some people actually enjoyed it?

If someone doesn't like (Jacqui Oatley's) commentary then that's up to them, but to whinge about how women commentators are crap and it should only be male commentators is bks. There are a few crap male commentators around as well...

Spot on, although iIt was actually Vicky Sparks today.

[FN2TypeR]

Outrageous situation IMO; WIMMIN commentating on footbal played by men!

[popeyewhite]

TwigtheWonderkid said:

popeyewhite said:

It would be nice if the BBC also placed male commentators in positions normally held by women. Just to demonstrate how inclusive they are, like. Did'nt hear many male voices commentating during the very excellent women's hockey final at the last Olympics... .

But Jonathan Pearce does the women's world cup.

Does he? My point was rather bastion of male sport vs bastion of female sport. But it's one in the right direction anyway.

[48k]

Bring back Barry Davies. His "you have to say that's magnificent" on Maradona's second goal against England in 1986 is one of the shortest yet most brilliant pieces of commentary I've ever heard.

[gadgetmac]

Nom de ploom said:

coloured???

really?

moron post of the year.

Yep, poor even by PH standards.

[TaylotS2K]

TwigtheWonderkid said:

I thought all this crap would have died out when Gabby Yorath (Logan) hit the screens 20 years ago. Steeped in football, and knows just as much about the game as any bloke, and more than most. Yet will still get this fking sexist bullst.

fking grow up.

Yep like the sexist bullst some of the feminists were coming out with when Phil Neville got the lionesses job. "Ohhhh he doesn't have any experience in the woman's game, he shouldn't have got the job". Football is football, regardless of which sex you are. Sexism when it suits.

But as for the female commentator, quite a few are in a agreement her voice is dreadful. It's not the content of what she says (most of us moan about Lawrenson and Hoddle etc with their content), although I did hear she said "Porto" on a few occasions instead of "Portugal".

[TwigtheWonderkid]

Male commentator today....."17% of all the goals scored in this WC have come in the last 15 mins."

Errrr....and 15 as a percentage of 90 is........oh, that'll be almost bang on 17%!