Goodbye Clive Tyldesley

[life on mars]

Tweet from Martyn O'Neil

""It is a big night tonight for my friend @clivetyldesley as he commentates on his final game, 🇩🇪 v 🇩🇰, after 28 memorable years for @itvfootball. ""

[billy.ronson]

Re: Goodbye Clive Tyldesley

I like him & Ally McCoist … not sure why he couldn’t commentate till end of tournament :shrug:

[Eric the Half a Bee]

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Tweet from Martyn O'Neil

""It is a big night tonight for my friend @clivetyldesley as he commentates on his final game, ���� v ����, after 28 memorable years for @itvfootball. ""

Better commentator than any of those still left working for ITV. Not sure that's an endorsement or not, but definitely an indictment into the poor state of football on ITV.

[life on mars]

Re: Goodbye Clive Tyldesley

I like him & Ally McCoist … not sure why he couldn’t commentate till end of tournament :shrug:

He had an interview where you can tell he is perhaps being put aside ,which seems unfair if he is fit work , of good voice and has good cognitive abilities.

Perhaps age and some other reason ,phew older men being put out to grass now . I think another middle aged ITV fella has expressed his concerns about his future.

https://www.sportbible.com/football/football-news/clive-tyldesley-itv-commentary-euro-2024-germany-denmark-784903-20240629

Tom Bradby's colleagues protest the ITV newsreader's comments on there not being many 'white, middle age anchors' left

[Father Dougal]

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Who's that absolutely awful one. Matterface or something? Terrible. He still about?

[MacAdder]

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Verbal diarrhoea.

[Eric the Half a Bee]

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Who's that absolutely awful one. Matterface or something? Terrible. He still about?

He's been ITV's lead commentator for a few years now. Worst commentator on terrestrial TV.

[The Bloop]

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When there wasn't so much football on the TV there were only a few commentators. For that reason there were hardly any bad ones.
These days, with so many matches there's a need for many more commentators (and pundits). There's plenty who aren't that good, but Clive Tyldesly was one of the better ones.

[splott parker]

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‘Orange Juice time’, ‘Rip it up and start again’.
I wonder how long he’s had that in the can waiting for the opportunity?

[Der Kaiser]

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Thank God for that.

[jon1959]

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He had an interview where you can tell he is perhaps being put aside ,which seems unfair if he is fit work , of good voice and has good cognitive abilities.

Perhaps age and some other reason ,phew older men being put out to grass now . I think another middle aged ITV fella has expressed his concerns about his future.

https://www.sportbible.com/football/football-news/clive-tyldesley-itv-commentary-euro-2024-germany-denmark-784903-20240629

Tom Bradby's colleagues protest the ITV newsreader's comments on there not being many 'white, middle age anchors' left

You think Clive Tyldesley is 'middle aged'?

You wish.

He is a few months off 70. He should retire!

[the other bob wilson]

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Never liked Clive Tyldesley, he commentated as if he didn’t realise tou were seeing the same things as him, it was if he thought he was commentating on the radio - he never shut up.

[Eric the Half a Bee]

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Never liked Clive Tyldesley, he commentated as if he didn’t realise tou were seeing the same things as him, it was if he thought he was commentating on the radio - he never shut up.

I'd say most modern commentators are like that. Darren Fletcher on TNT is one of the worst for that.

[SLUDGE FACTORY]

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They are all pretty crap , Tyldesley is one of the worst

[Henry Hill]

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Never liked Clive Tyldesley, he commentated as if he didn’t realise tou were seeing the same things as him, it was if he thought he was commentating on the radio - he never shut up.

Hes no Barry Davies. Very John Motson-esque style but not as quirky as Motson. His video when his contract wasnt renewed as ITVs main man a few years ago was self indulgent cringe.

Should have been put out to graze with Martin Tyler years ago.