use them.
and Michael Johnson on diving, rather than experts on the sports?
I don't give much of a fúck about either sport, but on an occasion that I find myself watching one of them (i.e. when it's on prime time tv), I'd quite like someone to be able to tell me about the tactics and techniques involved?
use them.
Therefore, there are no prime time pundits. So it may as well be those two as anybody else; both extremely popular fellows, so I gather.
Everytime I've tried to watch it, there's been no commentary - which made it rather tricky when there was a bit of a disagreement going on between the ref and one of the players.
If I cared about the sport, I'd have been most cross. I suspect that only about 5 people in the country DO actually care about handball, though.
would be alienated by an unrecognisable expert talking about technical side of a minority sport and so choose to go with a the safe option of a celebrity, even if they offer little besides a familiar face?
People, rightly, in my view, prefer the latter.