EMMA HAYES ITV COMMENTATOR

[Madassa]

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Tyldesley thinks France v Switzerland is being played in Bucharest FFS!

[willo1927]

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Tyldesley thinks France v Switzerland is being played in Bucharest FFS!

You've had a mare son
It was played in Bucharest

[Moodybluebird]

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She’s very knowledgable and well prepared but is dominating the commentating way too much. Every action doesn’t need a full technical analysis. Just let the pictures tell the story sometimes. Maybe trying a bit too hard to show she’s worthy of the job.

I’d rather listen to her before many of her male counterparts though.

I agree entirely with your first paragraph. In the end it was a relief when the match ended due to her constant jabbering and analysis of every single situation. No co-commentator, no matter how knowledgeable, should be allowed to dominate in the way she does. A painful experience for most if not all viewers.

[Madassa]

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You've had a mare son
It was played in Bucharest

I have haven't I. I thought it would be Budapest as per the group games. Makes me even more annoyed Cardiff don't get a tie.

[Llandaff Blue]

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She obviously knows her stuff,but its only her opinion. Recently football a game played by testosterone fuelled egotistical young men has turned into a nerdy science. Its always whether one team can impose their game over the opposition. Spain were always going to try to push their full backs as high as they could and Croatia were keeping it compact and wait for the mistake.

The problem with her was she spoke so often she often contradicted whatever she said 5 mins earlier.

How come i grew up with a single commentator and never thought i needed someone to tell me what to think. Maybe to tell me what is happening off the ball who is making runs the camera is not picking up.

She talked too much, but do we really need them ?

Stats and data analysis have been part of the game for longer than you realise. She is a manager after all, so her insight is going to be much different to the likes of Jenas and Murphy who probably haven't got a coaching badge between them.

She talks way too much and can't pronounce Azpilicueta properly. Sure the insight is nice but it's not needed every minute but if she improves on that I think I'd much rather her than any of Jenas/Murphy etc

[WJ99mobile]

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You've had a mare son
It was played in Bucharest

It was on pretty much every other billboard :hehe:

[Tuerto]

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Mute button is your friend. Watch the game and reach your own conclusions.

[Dorcus]

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Why do we need Co-Commentators anyway?

[MacAdder]

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Why do we need Co-Commentators anyway?

Coz Sky got 'em and everyone else should follow their lead coz they're great.

Mute button isn't the answer for me as I like to hear the crowd.

Had to turn it right down today though, she was dreadful as was Tyldesley with his silly motor car metaphors.

Need to offer "crowd noise only" on the red button, thus providing the true match day experience.

[Bobby Dandruff]

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She may know her onions football wise, but her constant wittering is driving me nuts. Don't these people realise that less is more, instead of beating your eardrums into submission.

As I said in a previous thread, she sounds like Glenn Hoddle, has the same poor pronunciation as Hoddle and I'm sure like Hoddle believes she's a tactical genius.

Tuerto has the right attitude. Press the mute button or at the very least turn down the sound to its bare minimum.

I happen to think that her monotone delivery is absolutely awful. She might be very insightful but you have to make what you are saying sound interesting by using your voice. She has zero intonation and makes everything sound so unbelievably boring.

Btw, almost everyone on Twitter thinks that she is fantastic!

[Moodybluebird]

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I happen to think that her monotone delivery is absolutely awful. She might be very insightful but you have to make what you are saying sound interesting by using your voice. She has zero intonation and makes everything sound so unbelievably boring.

Btw, almost everyone on Twitter thinks that she is fantastic!

It was absolute torture listening to her two hour monologue delivered in an incessant London/South East drone. Practically every kick was followed by some form of technical analysis that was neither insightful nor necessary. A horrible experience for the viewer that tarnished an otherwise fantastic match.

Your last comment regarding Twitter has left me speechless !

[the other bob wilson]

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She’s very knowledgable and well prepared but is dominating the commentating way too much. Every action doesn’t need a full technical analysis. Just let the pictures tell the story sometimes. Maybe trying a bit too hard to show she’s worthy of the job.

I’d rather listen to her before many of her male counterparts though.

I completely agree with you there, right down to the bit about her possibly trying too hard. I can understand it in a way mind because there will be some female co commentators who will think that, with a lot of the opinions you see from men on places like this and other social media platforms when it comes to woman in football broadcasting, they have to really prove how much they know and understand the game. Emma Hayes doesn't need to prattle on endlessly like she did yesterday, because what she says is, very often, interesting and informative - less is more would be a good motto for her I believe.

Also think Jayne Ludlow has been honest and intelligent on those Elis James programmes.

[UNDERHILL1927]

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I think she's been the best by far, ten times better than that c*nt Tyldesley

[blue lewj]

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I'm not a fan.

I am still at a loss as to what playing low means.
The nearest thing I can think is playing deep but that is used so much why would she not just say deep rather than low?

Another comment from her about balls being like balloons had me shaking my head for a while too.

[Ras Malai]

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I was venting about this on our Euro WhatsApp group last night......she absolutely boiled my swede....

She wouldn't shut up.....she literally had to comment on every bit of play.....

And the whole Apple Quetta thing was just ridiculous....