Quote Originally Posted by splott parker View Post
Perhaps a test for pundits would be for them to have to predict the score live on air before kick off. You’d imagine those two yesterday would have forecast a 2,3 or even 4 goal canter for Arsenal. Would be hard to justify their criticism after a 2-3 scoreline then. Or would that scenario highlight their ignorance? The City fans I spoke to prior to yesterday’s game were quite bouyant and while not out & out predicting a City victory they were confident that we’d give them a game, which was justified by the close result. City fans 1-Highly paid ‘pundits’ 0 in my opinion.
Studies like this have been done in football, lots of other sports and even the economy. And in terms of predicting things pundits/experts are no better than the average man on the street.

Prediction is hard as none of them would have known how we would approach the game etc..... However, the value in pundits is being able to explain what has happened and why. I don’t think the MOTD pundits did that.

Eg show me any goal from
outside the box and the pundits can say “the defender should get closer there.” It’s just lazy.