But people might not always be looking at the screen, and the human brain is less likely to be receptive to oral dialogue when it's delivered in a flat, toneless manner - in both my professional and personal life I can think of plenty of people I know who, when they're talking, I find it hard to take in what they are saying or not switch off, and part of my job involves managing teams of professionals and speaking in public, and those people are the ones I'll always 'manage' to ensure they don't speak in public.TheFamilyCat wrote: ↑Thu Sep 05, 2024 9:59 pmI genuinely don't understand this argument at all: "you had to think what the scores were going to be" - but she tells you the scores. And the scores are on the screen anyway.
I was surprised that it was Pien Meulensteen who read the results, as when she commentates on games her voice isn't flat and toneless, and I thought when she worked as a match reporter on Soccer Saturday she came across well. She certainly isn't suited to reading out the classified results.
The way Simon Thomas 'built up' the 'full classified check' last Saturday I thought Alan Lambourn was back, as though by building up the fact someone else was reading out the results Thomas was acknowledging that he wasn't very good at it, and yet after the build up then he handed over to someone who was worse than him at doing so.
I believe Alan Lambourn is involved in/presents on radio in the Southampton area, with a show on Sunday mornings, I'm going to try to remember to find out if he's still doing that as if so then clearly he hasn't died or been jailed or such like, so either he's decided to retire from Soccer Saturday or Sky have dispensed of his services. And no, it isn't the end of the world either way - my wife and unborn child tragically died 2 1/2 years ago so my sense of perspective/importance is very clear, although even my wife (who had little interest in football) used to say how she liked listening to Alan Lambourn's voice and how he pronounced places and clubs she'd never heard of.