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His voice grates and makes me queasy and he is as bland as a bowl of cabbage. OG Sky Sports!! Bring back the sexists!!

He talks a lot more sense than most of the other pundits I see.

He isn't afraid to say what he thinks, that's pretty good for me. He's better than Claridge anyway...

Southampton Gull wrote:He talks a lot more sense than most of the other pundits I see.

Agree.

Ah! I never said that he didn't know what he was talking about.

I think most people like him, except Liverpool fans.

Wasn't there some talk of earmarking him as a future England manager a few months back?

Neville is the best football pundit on TV by an absolute country mile.

OK OK!! Call off the lynch mob! I'll give the bloke another try and see if i can get used to him. Just don't keeeeeel me ok?!!!

Has he got rid of that stupid moustache yet?

How many times have we seen TV stations, particularly ITV, choose to televise United thrashing some minnows from a minor European country, even though the mighty Reds had long since qualified for the next round, in preference to a nicely balanced tie between other clubs where the outcome is still uncertain ?

The answer is plenty !... because the TV companies want to pull in viewing numbers for their advertisers above all else. Stick Man Utd on TV & you'll get a far bigger audience tuning in than for showing any other club. Show Wigan Athletic v Stoke live, & you'll probably get fewer watching than if you showing a live transmission of a Man Utd training session.

So from the TV companies perspective if you can't show Man Utd each & every time, then you do the next best thing. You stick a Man Utd player on the TV to talk about the game. No one believes for a moment that ITV considered Roy Keane to be the best pundit they could employ, or that Roy's sparkling managerial career made him suitably qualified to tell us where the tactics were going wrong. But all those Red Devils out there in TV land may just be persuaded to sit through a non United football broadcast if a favourite United old boy can be wheeled on to talk to them before kick off & at half time.

Very occasionally you'll get the odd overlap, as in the case of Neville who does a reasonable job on the box as well as being an ex player for the 'right' club, but it's his red credentials that will have secured him the job.

austrianandygull wrote:OK OK!! Call off the lynch mob! I'll give the bloke another try and see if i can get used to him. Just don't keeeeeel me ok?!!!

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I keeelllll Yoooo.

Anyone caught his reaction to the Torres goal yesterday??

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Couldn`t give a toss about the bloke, I don`t watch Sky!