St Lej Posted 29 February, 2016 Share Posted 29 February, 2016 Just had a quick look at his "Team of the week" column, in which he typically includes pretty much anyone who scored a goal and was on the winning team. Ivanovic was on his list, to which he noted "What a great header by Branislav Ivanovic to give Chelsea a win at Southampton. It's quite extraordinary that this victory was only their second away win of the season" Yes, it was even more extraordinary , being that it was actually their 4th away win of the season. Lazy lazy punditry yet again, the info is there these days for anyone to actually look these things up. Off the top of my head I could remember that Chelsea had won more than once away from home before playing us. Yet Crooks, who must be paid handsomely by the BBC, can't even be bothered to check his facts before posting his drivel. How he's still employed is a mystery, I don't even remember him as a player, and I'm 34. Time for him to be let go surely. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Toadhall Saint Posted 29 February, 2016 Share Posted 29 February, 2016 LOL - hes been ****e for years! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
warsash saint Posted 29 February, 2016 Share Posted 29 February, 2016 You only just realised? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Saint Garrett Posted 29 February, 2016 Share Posted 29 February, 2016 He is a truly dreadful pundit, his teams of the week are basically anyone has scored, and the reasoning for being picked is even more laughable. No reason for him to be on there tbh - sure Shearer or Lineker can pick a team of the week. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The9 Posted 29 February, 2016 Share Posted 29 February, 2016 (edited) You only just realised? I actually saw Crooks play in a League Cup final, and I am in absolutely no doubt that he has nothing keeping him employed at the BBC other than the fact he's a black ex-footballer with some media experience. Because he's absolutely embarrassing on practically every level, and the more he tries to appear intelligent the worse he looks. Only one man uses phrases like "or as I call it, a penalty" and actually seems to think he's inventing the term. Edited 29 February, 2016 by The9 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
saint-crinny Posted 29 February, 2016 Share Posted 29 February, 2016 More irritating was his assessment of Costa's performance, when he leads on to say about how great it was that the ref overuled the lino flagging for a foul on Cedric, to allow Costa's "tireless running" to set up the equaliser. Even when you know he is an absolute tool, it's impossible not to be wound up by Crooks Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
St Lej Posted 29 February, 2016 Author Share Posted 29 February, 2016 You only just realised? No I hadn't only just realised, but when he blatantly gets his facts wrong it's even worse than just being shyt, it's pure laziness and an insult to those who contribute to pay for his wages Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Winnersaint Posted 29 February, 2016 Share Posted 29 February, 2016 He should have stuck to C&W! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
angelman Posted 29 February, 2016 Share Posted 29 February, 2016 Don't bother listening to him or reading his rubbish. His team of the week is something I expect my 10 year old could do having watched match of the day. He goes on far too much about the lack of black managers which I find slightly risible as he has never bothered trying to manage, but choosing punditry instead. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Batman Posted 29 February, 2016 Share Posted 29 February, 2016 (edited) He is an utter helmet. I cringe when he goes on a little rant on telly. Just awful Edited 29 February, 2016 by Batman Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stockportsaint Posted 1 March, 2016 Share Posted 1 March, 2016 I actually saw Crooks play in a League Cup final, and I am in absolutely no doubt that he has nothing keeping him employed at the BBC other than the fact he's a black ex-footballer with some media experience. Because he's absolutely embarrassing on practically every level, and the more he tries to appear intelligent the worse he looks. Only one man uses phrases like "or as I call it, a penalty" and actually seems to think he's inventing the term. A clear example of tokenism and now cronyism. I'm pretty sure he was the first black ex-player to become a mainstream pundit. There are plenty of black ex-players around now who can string together a more meaningful sentence than Crooks. I always found Leroy Rosenior very astute on the Football League Show, but I guess he's not high profile enough. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
austsaint Posted 1 March, 2016 Share Posted 1 March, 2016 I have always thought the whole idea of a "team of the week" was a weak idea whether Crooks was the judge or not. I just can't believe that someone like Crooks watches every minute of every game before selecting his team, which you really would need to do before coming up with a final side. His capacity to then make the right choices are a different question again. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
angelman Posted 1 March, 2016 Share Posted 1 March, 2016 A clear example of tokenism and now cronyism. I'm pretty sure he was the first black ex-player to become a mainstream pundit. There are plenty of black ex-players around now who can string together a more meaningful sentence than Crooks. I always found Leroy Rosenior very astute on the Football League Show, but I guess he's not high profile enough. In his defence, it should be remembered that he was chairman of the PFA Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scotty Posted 1 March, 2016 Share Posted 1 March, 2016 I find it impossible to watch him or listen to him. I can only think he's got something on one of the bbc top brass, there can't be any other explanation for his continued presence onscreen. Utter pillock. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
angelman Posted 1 March, 2016 Share Posted 1 March, 2016 I find it impossible to watch him or listen to him. I can only think he's got something on one of the bbc top brass, there can't be any other explanation for his continued presence onscreen. Utter pillock. Oh come off it. It's the BBC and they have quotas to fill. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scotty Posted 1 March, 2016 Share Posted 1 March, 2016 Oh come off it. It's the BBC and they have quotas to fill. Giedroych. Perkins. Toksvig. Calman. I rest my case. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
angelman Posted 1 March, 2016 Share Posted 1 March, 2016 It's the BBC and they have more quotas than you and I might thing possibly could exist. I rest my case. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Charlie Wayman Posted 1 March, 2016 Share Posted 1 March, 2016 The BBC are so institutionally prejudiced against Southampton FC that I stopped listening to any of their so-called expert pundits years ago. It's amazing what you can do with a volume control and Fast Forward. Just watch the game action and then MUTE and make some coffee. I mean, does anybody actually listen to Shearer? Even Linnekar seems mildly embarrassed every time the clown opens his mouth. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Batman Posted 13 April, 2016 Share Posted 13 April, 2016 Jason Puncheon in the holding midfield role. good stuff http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/36011450 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shance Posted 13 April, 2016 Share Posted 13 April, 2016 That right side! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Badger Posted 13 April, 2016 Share Posted 13 April, 2016 The BBC are so institutionally prejudiced against Southampton FC that I stopped listening to any of their so-called expert pundits years ago. It's amazing what you can do with a volume control and Fast Forward. Just watch the game action and then MUTE and make some coffee. I mean, does anybody actually listen to Shearer? Even Linnekar seems mildly embarrassed every time the clown opens his mouth. Shearer tends to be complimentary about Saints though. (Perhaps for that reason)Rather listen to Shearer than some of the other dullards on there. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Saint Charlie Posted 13 April, 2016 Share Posted 13 April, 2016 Jason Puncheon in the holding midfield role. good stuff http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/36011450 Kaspar lucky his Dad probably told him clean sheets are important as a GK. Such an advantage over other GKs who might not have known. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John Boy Saint Posted 13 April, 2016 Share Posted 13 April, 2016 Jason Puncheon in the holding midfield role. good stuff http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/36011450 "Can we play you every week?" Springs to mind. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dinger Posted 13 April, 2016 Share Posted 13 April, 2016 I've got a strange affection for Garth. It's something about the way he maniacally stares down the other guys in the studio, as if defying them to disagree with him, whilst saying the tritest, most unremarkable thing that your brain would probably fall asleep even trying to think up. There's definitely something of the drug trip about that mixture of the frighteningly confusing and the utterly banal. And he reminds me of Kevin the Gerbil. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hatch Posted 13 April, 2016 Share Posted 13 April, 2016 I'm sure he is just employed by the BBC to wind people up , even though he is unaware of it himself. His cluelessness gets everyone chatting about him/BBC/football focus every week which is what they want. There is no way the bosses employ him for his insight, I just refuse to believe that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
angelman Posted 13 April, 2016 Share Posted 13 April, 2016 Crooks is a little too simplistic and that anyone who scores a goal automatically has a chance of getting in. 8 of the 10 outfield players were on the score sheet. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
St Lej Posted 13 April, 2016 Author Share Posted 13 April, 2016 Kaspar lucky his Dad probably told him clean sheets are important as a GK. Such an advantage over other GKs who might not have known. "Schmeichel knows, of course, the value of clean sheets - his father Peter, one of the greatest goalkeepers of his generation, would have told him so." Surely the BBC are winding everyone up, Crooks can't have put his name to this obscenely obvious comical quote. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
eddie Posted 13 April, 2016 Share Posted 13 April, 2016 Kaspar lucky his Dad probably told him clean sheets are important as a GK. Such an advantage over other GKs who might not have known. might explain leicester's unlikely title charge Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rallyboy Posted 13 April, 2016 Share Posted 13 April, 2016 Pension him off - with Motson. What a brilliant save! No Motty, it was straight at him, you could have kept that one out. But he got the ball! He hit the bloke two-footed at knee height and the ball just happened to be nearby - it's not 1968. No keeper in the world would save that! Yes they would, it was two yards inside the post. He's only just offside. Yes, that's called being offside. He wanted it more! No, he judged the cross better and had the technical skill to connect with it cleanly. It was a late flag. No, he wasn't offside until he challenged for the ball. With time on their hands you'd think they could keep up with rule changes and the way the game has evolved. #dinosaurs Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scotty Posted 13 April, 2016 Share Posted 13 April, 2016 Pension him off - with Motson. What a brilliant save! No Motty, it was straight at him, you could have kept that one out. But he got the ball! He hit the bloke two-footed at knee height and the ball just happened to be nearby - it's not 1968. No keeper in the world would save that! Yes they would, it was two yards inside the post. He's only just offside. Yes, that's called being offside. He wanted it more! No, he judged the cross better and had the technical skill to connect with it cleanly. It was a late flag. No, he wasn't offside until he challenged for the ball. With time on their hands you'd think they could keep up with rule changes and the way the game has evolved. #dinosaurs Very good and reminds me of this. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
saintquin Posted 13 April, 2016 Share Posted 13 April, 2016 Pension him off - with Motson. What a brilliant save! No Motty, it was straight at him, you could have kept that one out. But he got the ball! He hit the bloke two-footed at knee height and the ball just happened to be nearby - it's not 1968. No keeper in the world would save that! Yes they would, it was two yards inside the post. He's only just offside. Yes, that's called being offside. He wanted it more! No, he judged the cross better and had the technical skill to connect with it cleanly. It was a late flag. No, he wasn't offside until he challenged for the ball. With time on their hands you'd think they could keep up with rule changes and the way the game has evolved. #dinosaurs The late flag one always makes me quietly giggle to myself! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
St Lej Posted 14 April, 2016 Author Share Posted 14 April, 2016 Motson has been awful for decades now. The BBC clearly appear uncomfortable with getting rid of him due to his iconic status, and are probably allowing him to decide when he feels can no longer commentate. The fact that he's a bumbling inept old fool these days doesn't appear to come into it. When Kane scored us at SMS this season, the whole "Harry Kane scoring against the club where he was once on loan" thing was just the tip of the iceberg, clearly got us confused with Norwich. His constant chuckling during commentary for no reason whatsoever (particularly on replays) is particularly annoying. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
yellow&blue Posted 25 April, 2016 Share Posted 25 April, 2016 He's at it again with his team of the week, Dussn Tadic is in it but he hardly even mentions him! http://bbc.in/26mIIPS "What on earth is going on at Aston Villa? Some of their players are clearly losing the plot. Jores Okore asks not to be considered for the remainder of the season, former captain Gabby Agbonlahor is suspended pending an internal investigation into his professional conduct -and that's just off the field. Meanwhile Leandro Bacuna's gift-wrapped back pass presented Southampton's Dusan Tadic with his first of two nicely taken goals. However, what has proved even more interesting than Bacuna's lamentable performance against the Saints was the player insisting that he wants to play Champions League football next season. The question I would like to pose is, with who? Real Madrid or Bayern Munich? Getting his agent to ring either club is a mere phone call but such delusions of grandeur will require far more imagination. Perhaps the agent could add Okore and Agbonlahor as part of the arrangement in order to sweeten the deal!" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Deano6 Posted 25 April, 2016 Share Posted 25 April, 2016 He's at it again with his team of the week, Dussn Tadic is in it but he hardly even mentions him! http://bbc.in/26mIIPS "What on earth is going on at Aston Villa? Some of their players are clearly losing the plot. Jores Okore asks not to be considered for the remainder of the season, former captain Gabby Agbonlahor is suspended pending an internal investigation into his professional conduct -and that's just off the field. Meanwhile Leandro Bacuna's gift-wrapped back pass presented Southampton's Dusan Tadic with his first of two nicely taken goals. However, what has proved even more interesting than Bacuna's lamentable performance against the Saints was the player insisting that he wants to play Champions League football next season. The question I would like to pose is, with who? Real Madrid or Bayern Munich? Getting his agent to ring either club is a mere phone call but such delusions of grandeur will require far more imagination. Perhaps the agent could add Okore and Agbonlahor as part of the arrangement in order to sweeten the deal!" "...oh yeah, and Dusan Tadic played nice. I presume." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
doddisalegend Posted 25 April, 2016 Share Posted 25 April, 2016 He's at it again with his team of the week, Dussn Tadic is in it but he hardly even mentions him! http://bbc.in/26mIIPS "What on earth is going on at Aston Villa? Some of their players are clearly losing the plot. Jores Okore asks not to be considered for the remainder of the season, former captain Gabby Agbonlahor is suspended pending an internal investigation into his professional conduct -and that's just off the field. Meanwhile Leandro Bacuna's gift-wrapped back pass presented Southampton's Dusan Tadic with his first of two nicely taken goals. However, what has proved even more interesting than Bacuna's lamentable performance against the Saints was the player insisting that he wants to play Champions League football next season. The question I would like to pose is, with who? Real Madrid or Bayern Munich? Getting his agent to ring either club is a mere phone call but such delusions of grandeur will require far more imagination. Perhaps the agent could add Okore and Agbonlahor as part of the arrangement in order to sweeten the deal!" I think its pretty clear he picks the team on either who scored or because he wants to impart some punditry wisdom and the player mentioned is just a convenient lead into a ramble about something else. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The9 Posted 25 April, 2016 Share Posted 25 April, 2016 Jason Puncheon in the holding midfield role. good stuff http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/36011450 Still an improvement on a couple of weeks previous when he had Troy Deeney there. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The9 Posted 25 April, 2016 Share Posted 25 April, 2016 Motson has been awful for decades now. The BBC clearly appear uncomfortable with getting rid of him due to his iconic status, and are probably allowing him to decide when he feels can no longer commentate. The fact that he's a bumbling inept old fool these days doesn't appear to come into it. When Kane scored us at SMS this season, the whole "Harry Kane scoring against the club where he was once on loan" thing was just the tip of the iceberg, clearly got us confused with Norwich. His constant chuckling during commentary for no reason whatsoever (particularly on replays) is particularly annoying. I'm still not over his breakfast obsession from the 2002 World Cup, when the signs of his shark-jumpery were clearly evident. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
skintsaint Posted 5 December, 2016 Share Posted 5 December, 2016 Good one this week. Putting in Luiz basically for his 'wonder' ball for Costa's goal... One issue, it was Fabregas who played it... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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