Surprise, surprise. I predict there will be a lot of half-time muting next season...

 

http://www1.skysports.com/football/news/20876/8680593/Jamie-Carragher-joins-Sky-Sports-for-2013-14-season

Another good reason for not having Sky!

F*ck, I wish I had Sky just so I could tell them to stuff it up their collective arse - who the hell makes these decisions?

My Facebook status this morning was:

 

Jamie Carragher has joined the Sky Sports punditry team for next season.

 

So between them and the BBC we will have him, Redknapp, Sourness, Hansen and Lawrenson... Ex-Liverpool player overload!

 

No wonder I now prefer streaming my matches from Fox Soccer.

My Facebook status this morning was:

 

Don't forget that hateful little turd Michael Owen who has just begun infesting MOTD.

  He is easy to ignore as I can't understand  word he says

Subtitles all the way. Gillett soccer Saturday has Thompson and fowler, super Sunday have souness redknapp and now carragher. What do we have to fight our corner nobody. Arsenal have Quinn and Smith even merson and Nicholls. Talk about the media being red. It's a joke.

I have to say that I had much the same thoughts when Neville joined Sky.

 

He may turn out to be really good, but somehow I think he's more likely to be another Redknapp rather than Neville.

From when I've heard him he has seemed a lot more sensible than a lot of the current pundits.

 

edit: Nevermind for some reason I thought that article was about Redknapp, Carragher is likely an idiot.

Edited April 30, 201313 yr by Jonty

I have to say that I had much the same thoughts when Neville joined Sky.

 

He may turn out to be really good, but somehow I think he's more likely to be another Redknapp rather than Neville.

 

I've seen him a couple of times already, possibly on ITV... He wasn't particularly insightful and mostly I was just annoyed by his Scouse accent.

 

Neviille, although about as big of a mind up merchant as you could find when playing for United instantly showed a deep understanding of the game and he is clearly a fairly clever guy. He has his UEFA coaching badges and outside of football he is clearly a passionate person person as well apparently he is very environment conscious and he has also been making property investments such as funding a hotel near Old Trafford.

 

Jamie Carragher meanwhile was the guy who retired from England because he wasn't a first choice pick and found himself a country mile behind JT and Ferdinand in the pecking order. He's also, not sure I have mentioned this, an annoying scouser.  

  He is easy to ignore as I can't understand  word he says

Is his language Latin?

I think it is welsh but not a 100% sure

I bet he'll be good. not as good as neville but far better than jamie redknapp, who seems to have turned being ignored by gullit and souness into an artform.

WHY?

Maybe its a move by Sky to discourage thousands of Liverpool fans from cancelling their sports packages because their team are so scummy?

Bad choice of word there - it's a grave insult to anyone who is a moron, to be compared to Carragher...

Edited April 30, 201313 yr by Thfc

I am lucky here in the U.S., we have Fox Soccer Channel with former U.S. international  Eric Wynalda, who seems to be a bit of a closet Chesea fan, and Warren Barton, who speaks very clearly (that is, without a cockney or scouse accent) and also seems unbiased with respect to the top clubs (but he does have a soft heart from the Barcodes, since he used to play for them).

I bet he'll be good. not as good as neville but far better than jamie redknapp, who seems to have turned being ignored by gullit and souness into an artform.

Now that's damned with faint praise saying he will be better than redknapp. I can never understand carragher though. sounds like a radio being tuned in.

I must be the only one who doesn't rate Neville much.

I must be the only one who doesn't rate Neville much.

I think he's the best one out there, I'm sure people will disagree with me on that one! Redknapp is by the far the worst - just atrocious.

He could be alright like Neville but his voice will mean I won't be able to take him seriously.

Yeah, you are way off base if you don't rate Neville, and given his epic commentary during the CL semis and finals, he is Numero Uno in my book.

I must be the only one who doesn't rate Neville much.

Neville is easily the best on TV at the moment.

This media bias against Liverpool should not be ignored!

I was actually expecting to come in the thread and see a lot of neville bashing but glad to see people put bias aside - he is a brilliant pundit, puts united alligiance to one side, offers decent professional insight and doesnt try to brown nose. Redknapp however seems intent on not criticising anyone so he can come off air and go have a nice chat with them.

I also quite rate Roy Keane who really doesnt give a **** who he criticises, but also offers decent insight. He clearly cant stand the muppets that are Dixon and Southgate next to him though.