Phillip Neville

This made me laugh last night..posted by russian ron on the footy forum


The Ref should have sprayed Rooney in the face with that gear after that corner

Phil Neville reminded me of this bloke
.

He was painfully slow when he played for my club, but his slothful drawling was most annoying.. Mind you the commentator wasn't much better.

Engerlands most important game for a good few years and they put them two up. Most strange..

Content 9-10

Presentation 2-10

Very good comparison hh

Not sure about his content kenny , couldn't understand what he was saying for the best part.If England had a mumbling team i would make Neville captain, chairman and tea lady.

the worst commentator ever,and that takes some doing....inept,amateursih,dull..everything was wrong

He was about as much use as a brass band in Anne Franks loft!

Heads should roll....would you employ a Dalek to read the mid-morning story in a nursery?

Neville Neville Exterminate. Exterminate! Exterminate!

the content was fine, he's obviously very knowledgable about the game and read it well I thought, unfortunately his delivery was piss-poor, unlike his brother, whose natural enthusiasm shines through

It wan't just the
monotone - there was also
his habit of
pausing after every three
or four words which
gave the impression that
he was reciting
a haiku.

Frankie Boyle @frankieboyle

Phil Neville could make Zippity Doo Dah sound like a cancer diagnosis

Poor lad.

hes the William hague of football commentry

To be fair the bbc gave us a choice, press the red button for Alan Green...

JOnathan Pearce as commentator and Phil Neville as summariser would be, er, interesting

By the way, if you want a real example of a monotone delivery, switch on RUK now 

Looks like we're the only ones in agreement Mr B.

Didn't keep RUK when I switched from Sky to Virgin

He made some great comments but..........

........he droned on and on and on.

Poor feeeker - I suppose it's not his fault he talks like that.

The main problem was that he had too much too  say.  The role of the 'expert' is to dip in and out of the match commentary.

Very insightful though.

The main problem was that he had too much too  say.  The role of the 'expert' is to dip in and out of the match commentary.

Very insightful though.

agreed.

thankyou!

indeed, the so-called summarisers are now co-commentators - as evidenced by the France/Honduras commentary on BBC1 now... keown taking up as much airtime as pierce

This twitter bullying is horrendous and poor Gary must be feeling very self conscious.

Anyway if you want a laugh tune in for .....

BBC state that as scheduled, Phil will be a studio guest for Iran vs Nigeria on Monday 16th, Russia vs. South Korea on Tuesday 17th and Nigeria vs. Bosnia on Saturday 21st.

Neville will also be the co-commentator for highlights of both England vs Uruguay on Thursday 19th and the match against Costa Rica on Tuesday 24th.

Fair do's to Phil. He's made light of it all by saying "I'm just glad I helped everybody sleep back home."

You can hear his 50 second sound bite about his first co-commentary gig here:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p0212b70

I'd rather not

Thanks for that Tommy, he is showing what a good sport he is and taking all the criticism professionally and with humour.

He is co commentary career will show and upward curve from now. He is in the studio now with Lineker talking much quicker with a vigour and swagger that was once owned by Sid Waddell.

hehehe!

No need for that Tommy!

He should never commentate again....he pissed off 15million people....well done.

Not that many then?

For such an event the BBC can't even get a professional commentator, they put up a celebrity who was obviously never even tested, probably was paid more than a professional and from the interview he (and the BBC) don't even give a feck and think it's a big joke.  If it was his career it would be an ex career.  Celebrity Big Brother here he comes.

this was my favourite from the football forum on the night:

Just Checking
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Neville sounds like one of the guys on the radio @ 4am just between Lynrd Skynrd and the shipping forecast.

My favourite was from the horse racing forum:

"the one thing that we can all take out of this game is ....our sincere commiserations to mrs phil Neville....your husband must make life with thommo look like a constant mardi gras"

His voice is a cross between Alvin Stardust and Alvin Chipmunk..

I'm complaining to the bbc, I wanted to fall asleep during this rubbish game but no Phil Neville co-commentary. What is going on at the bbc.

HH Sultan Vinegar, is that Davey Moyes in the background of that picture?

Phil Neville is ok as a pundit in the studio, co-commentating is definitely not his thing though

I turned on for the last minute of the iran v nigeria game and they were talking about social media.  Phil Neville replied " i didnt even know about social media until 2 days ago".  I paraphrase.  Did make me laugh mind.

Yes, me too.
He's taking it all very well so fair play to him.

I've just read this on the football forum from the beeb:
"Viewers also took to Twitter to criticise Neville, with several joking England physio Gary Lewin - who was stretchered off after injuring his ankle - had "fallen into a coma" listening to him."

Which also made me laugh!

He showed some self-deprecation. A quality a very high percentage of the take themselves so seriously social media brigade really wouldn't recognise.

Yes ironically Phil will  probably go up in people`s estimations after this. Well, the thoughtful ones anyway.

lol, the tide is turning.

A good commentator does not maketh the man kenny.

Stuart Hall was great on It`s A Knockout...but he aint no Gary Neville

Well, quite. I think.