Socceraid - As expected there's now a whole load of bleating

[SWv2]

"Why isn't there a women's version?"

I can imagine that will lead to some rather tricky conversations behind the scenes and if it did go ahead it would probably put the women's game back by about 20 years.

I note one of the mainstream TV channels has employed chicks to pundit on the imminent WC coverage.

Not just a chick but the black chick who took some case or other against the FA for something, discrimination of some sort I expect.

Almost as if they are trying too hard.

[7sisters]

Chicks, be they black or otherwise should be banned from coming within a mile of a match commentary mic. They just remind me of the f*cking schoolboy crowd section attempting a terrace chant, or some type of netball crowd. There’s just no pleasure in hearing them screeching away with their thin reedy voices ..

[Ash]

Chicks, be they black or otherwise should be banned from coming within a mile of a match commentary mic. They just remind me of the f*cking schoolboy crowd section attempting a terrace chant, or some type of netball crowd. There’s just no pleasure in hearing them screeching away with their thin reedy voices ..

I've had no problem listening to women cricket commentators. They all know more about the game than I do and they're all better than listening to Ian Botham.

[Luis Anaconda]

I've had no problem listening to women cricket commentators. They all know more about the game than I do and they're all better than listening to Ian Botham.

Can't believe any one who has been forced to listen to JOhn Motson for 50 billion years can whine about thin reedy voices

[Burney]

Can't believe any one who has been forced to listen to JOhn Motson for 50 billion years can whine about thin reedy voices

Look, if 'better than Motson' is your benchmark, you're setting the bar fvcking low.

Motson's continued employment by the BBC remains a mystery.

[Burney]

I've had no problem listening to women cricket commentators. They all know more about the game than I do and they're all better than listening to Ian Botham.

I've had dental work that made for better listening than Ian Botham. The man should have done the decent thing and died in the Autumn of 1981 imo.

[Viva Prat Vegas]

There was a documentary about Lillywhite Motson on the BBC iplayer recently

It was very dull

[Burney]

There was a documentary about Lillywhite Motson on the BBC iplayer recently

It was very dull

Well of course it was. There is literally - famously - nothing interesting about the man. He was a figure of fun for years, constantly mocked for his tedious commentary where he thought that reeling off statistics in a nasal whine was an acceptable substitute for saying something - anything - insightful.

And then - pretty much overnight it seemed - he went from laughing stock to national treasure. It was weird.

[7sisters]

Well of course it was. There is literally - famously - nothing interesting about the man. He was a figure of fun for years, constantly mocked for his tedious commentary where he thought that reeling off statistics in a nasal whine was an acceptable substitute for saying something - anything - insightful.

And then - pretty much overnight it seemed - he went from laughing stock to national treasure. It was weird.

See Trevor MacDonald, who always came across to me as being amiable but a bit dim.

[Burney]

See Trevor MacDonald, who always came across to me as being amiable but a bit dim.

One does wonder if his career would have been so illustrious and whether he'd have become 'Sir Trevor' had he not had - how to put this - a certain novelty value.

I always preferred Alastair Burnett and his nose anyway.