The Football results being read out on Sky sports on Saturday evening, it was terrible they had some woman reading the results & it was that bad, it was like a 6year old doing it, the last part of all the teams was missing she was like ....Burnley 1 Blackburn 1, instead of Burnley 1 Blackburn Rovers 1, her voice was so bland, or she dosent know the full names of the clubs ...example 2...Leeds 2 v Hull 0, she needs to be got rid of very fast, totally clueless in my honest opinion,,,,bring back Alan Lambourn.

I stopped reading at "some woman"

why do we need the full names of the clubs? you know exactly who they are talking about

Some folk will whinge about anything

GetIntoEm wrote: ↑

Mon Sep 02, 2024 1:22 pm

why do we need the full names of the clubs? you know exactly who they are talking about

Looking forward to hearing Manchester 3 Sheffield 1 then

CaptainKirk wrote: ↑

Mon Sep 02, 2024 1:01 pm

I stopped reading at "some woman"

Sorry, I genuinely don't get this. I guess you're implying that the OP is complaining about the announcer because she was female and is therefore a bit of a mysigonist but he could just as easily have said "some bloke" if it was a man. Your comment does come across as a bit of virtue-signalling ..the OP is entitled to his opinion.

GetIntoEm wrote: ↑

Mon Sep 02, 2024 1:22 pm

why do we need the full names of the clubs? you know exactly who they are talking about

As a rule, when writing, I tend to use a name that makes it clear who they are, so it’s Manchester City and Manchester United and similar with the Bristol, Nottingham & Sheffield clubs and it’s always Bradford City. Otherwise it’s Leeds, Bolton, Wigan etc.

Or the OP could as easily have just said "the announcer" and then made their point.

ClaretTony wrote: ↑

Mon Sep 02, 2024 1:49 pm

As a rule, when writing, I tend to use a name that makes it clear who they are, so it’s Manchester City and Manchester United and similar with the Bristol, Nottingham & Sheffield clubs and it’s always Bradford City. Otherwise it’s Leeds, Bolton, Wigan etc.

You got it wrong then. CT it’s Dirty Leeds as per - “Dirty Leeds 0 Burnley 3.

evensteadiereddie wrote: ↑

Mon Sep 02, 2024 1:50 pm

Or the OP could as easily have just said "the announcer" and then made their point.

If they are paying an hourly rate I think there's a lot of value in losing a few unnecessary 'Uniteds', 'Cities' and 'Albions', and reducing the time it takes to read the results.

There was an occasion in 2022 where Lambourn said Peterborough and not "United" after it, so maybe its a corporate directive and not the announcer's choice?

But then, you wouldn't be able to have a go at her if you accepted that premise, i guess

ClaretTony wrote: ↑

Mon Sep 02, 2024 1:49 pm

As a rule, when writing, I tend to use a name that makes it clear who they are, so it’s Manchester City and Manchester United and similar with the Bristol, Nottingham & Sheffield clubs and it’s always Bradford City. Otherwise it’s Leeds, Bolton, Wigan etc.

exactly, as most people do, if it doesnt need clarifying, the extension is normally dropped

TBH we all know the results,you just check your phone, get the announcer p1ssed and hide their glasses,now that would brighten Saturday night up.

GetIntoEm wrote: ↑

Mon Sep 02, 2024 1:22 pm

why do we need the full names of the clubs? you know exactly who they are talking about

Exactly this ^^^^

Can't wait for...

Sheffield 2
Sheffield 2

and

Bristol 3
Bristol 4

Rowls wrote: ↑

Mon Sep 02, 2024 2:20 pm

Exactly this ^^^^

Can't wait for...

Sheffield 2
Sheffield 2

and

Bristol 3
Bristol 4

clearly its teams that dont need their extention in order to know who it was. Lets not get daft.

people are scared of change, i get it. it must be upsetting for them to not hear the full team name read out.

In the interest of brevity I think we should just use initials.

Feel like there's a cloud getting yelled at down south

It was the lack of inflection in her voice that irritated me. You can normally guess which team has won/drawn/lost after the first team has been announced but not on many occasions this time.
Think she needs a bit more practice. And my comment would apply equally to a male announcer with the same problem.

I did hear the results being read out and it was very poor.

Interested to know if she missed the full name of any team that it actually matters for, such as Sheffield or Bristol.

I reckon most of us know who Leeds are or else should we not go the full way and say - 'Leeds United Football Club 2 - 0 Hull City Football Club' (Need that 'City' bit in there in case anyone mistakenly thinks Leeds only scored 2 past a rugby team).

So is it
West or West Brom or West Bromwich or West Bromwich Albion or just simply WBA

With Sky Sports providing minute by minute coverage of all the games on telly, their website and their app as well as highlights online shortly after full time, why does anyone need to hear them being read out in the evening? It's a relic.

I'm still getting over Daniel Sturridge on the Manchester United Vs Liverpool game yesterday constantly saying "Man", "Bro" etc

Maybe I'm getting old but he does my head in.

Goody1975 wrote: ↑

Mon Sep 02, 2024 3:02 pm

I'm still getting over Daniel Sturridge on the Manchester United Vs Liverpool game yesterday constantly saying "Man", "Bro" etc

Maybe I'm getting old but he does my head in.

Think Roy Keane was getting pretty wound up as well!

FCBurnley wrote: ↑

Mon Sep 02, 2024 2:50 pm

So is it
West or West Brom or West Bromwich or West Bromwich Albion or just simply WBA

it's The Albion

Or East Fife 4 Forfar 5

Now I'm a fan of Talk Sport but their reading of the results is invariably poor. Seems like they are just trying to get through them as quickly as possible. Rarely a pause, so I'm not always sure of the detail. If it's during a Saturday programme, I've heard wrong names, they sometimes lead with the away team, sometimes the 'bigger team'.
For example Liverpool beat Manchester United by three goals, Arsenal failed to beat Brighton in a 1 all draw.
Football League results are dreadfully quick and there is no composure to the reading out.

I want my country back.

And the ghost of James Alexander Gordon shuddered. . . .

Just to add some common mistakes sometimes used by the tv and press
It’s Nottingham Forest and not Notts Forest
It’s Hamilton Academical and not Hamilton Academicals
While I’m here it’s Wetherspoons and not Witherspoons
I know I need to get a life

How many more times are we going to hear "slot machine" when
they're drooling over Liverpool ?

beeholeclaret wrote: ↑

Mon Sep 02, 2024 3:17 pm

Or East Fife 4 Forfar 5

Did Fofana score 4?

beddie wrote: ↑

Mon Sep 02, 2024 1:56 pm

You got it wrong then. CT it’s Dirty Leeds as per - “Dirty Leeds 0 Burnley 3.

I did refer to them as LOL when they were in League One

Buxtonclaret wrote: ↑

Mon Sep 02, 2024 3:23 pm

And the ghost of James Alexander Gordon shuddered. . . .

Wasn't it J A G that always said wandererers (Bolton, Wickham etc etc) or am I mixing them up ?

Bosscat wrote: ↑

Mon Sep 02, 2024 5:34 pm

Wasn't it J A G that always said wandererers (Bolton, Wickham etc etc) or am I mixing them up ?

Don't recall him doing that?
He'd a great Raith Rovers in him though.

Buxtonclaret wrote: ↑

Mon Sep 02, 2024 6:17 pm

Don't recall him doing that?
He'd a great Raith Rovers in him though.

Who was the one who used to pronounce Wanderers as Wandererers then ??? Am sure I remember that on TV and Radio back in the day

Part of my childhood was the jingle and James Alexander Gordon's voice on the other side.

You used to be able to guess the result based on how he said it but it caught you out once or twice.

Going slightly off topic, I'm sure I watched something when he retired about how he got the job and I think he sort of fell into it if I remember rightly? Someone might be able to put me right if I'm wrong.

Bosscat wrote: ↑

Mon Sep 02, 2024 6:31 pm

Who was the one who used to pronounce Wanderers as Wandererers then ??? Am sure I remember that on TV and Radio back in the day

What was he called who did the Beeb Sat/results? Can't remember.
It may have been JAG . My memory much be away someplace else.

Buxtonclaret wrote: ↑

Mon Sep 02, 2024 6:45 pm

What was he called who did the Beeb Sat/results? Can't remember.
It may have been JAG . My memory much be away someplace else.

Another was Bob Colston I think ???

Bosscat wrote: ↑

Mon Sep 02, 2024 6:47 pm

Another was Bob Colston I think ???

Think Tim Gudgen was another.

Games gone

I did. She was bloody awful. No tone at all to her reading out the scores. Absolutely all done in a monotonous drone, with no increased tone at all to tell us for example, that Villa had scored 2 away at Leicester. After she said Leicester City 1, her tone stayed the same, suggesting she was gonna say Aston Villa 1. Awful, just awful. Yet the Sky Soccer Saturday host introduced her like it was a big treat for us all. I’ll watch the scores on mute from now on, on Sky.

I've been trying to find out (without success) what has happened to Alan Lambourn, I'm not aware Sky has ever acknowledged/referenced his absence, which seems slightly 'odd' given how long he's read the results on Soccer Saturday.

Personally I greatly miss his voice, he was the last of the proper announcers, in the mould of James Alexander Gordon, Len Martin and others mentioned on this thread. Simon Thomas read out the results the first couple of weeks of this season and was poor in comparison (I'm not a fan on him full stop) but Pien was even worse last Saturday, her voice came across as though she was just reading off a screen without any interest or awareness of the actual result.

And although at 48 I don't consider myself either old or young, I do like to hear clubs given their full names once in a while, to me referring to them merely by the place name is 'dumbing down'. Similarly, I don't tend to watch half-time studio chat or pre-game build ups, but I did catch abit of Daniel Sturridge on Sunday and thought how poor his diction was. It's nothing to do with age or complaining for the sake of it, in most walks of life there are times it's appropriate/fine to talk chav and there's times to talk proper. But that's increasingly the way of things, pandering to the chavs (and I fear that Sky have got rid of Alan Lambourn for the same reason).

Poulton-le-Claret wrote: ↑

Mon Sep 02, 2024 2:45 pm

I reckon most of us know who Leeds are or else should we not go the full way and say - 'Leeds United Football Club 2 - 0 Hull City Football Club' (Need that 'City' bit in there in case anyone mistakenly thinks Leeds only scored 2 past a rugby team).

It's Hull City Association Football Club, actually

evensteadiereddie wrote: ↑

Mon Sep 02, 2024 1:50 pm

Or the OP could as easily have just said "the announcer" and then made their point.

But if she's a woman why would he need to?

Funkydrummer wrote: ↑

Mon Sep 02, 2024 3:36 pm

How many more times are we going to hear "slot machine" when
they're drooling over Liverpool ?

It's taken a while. I've always thought that Liverpool were just a bunch of slots.

Agree with a lot of the above, though. Talk sport goes too fast, and the new woman on 5 live was stilted monotone.

I make no comment on her being a woman, i said her voice was very flat, you had to think what the scores were going to be thats how bad she was, im glad that some on this thread agree with what iv said.

I’ve come here for an argument
No you haven’t
Yes I have
No you haven’t
Yes I have
…………..

BurnleyMickSouth wrote: ↑

Thu Sep 05, 2024 8:58 pm

I make no comment on her being a woman, i said her voice was very flat, you had to think what the scores were going to be thats how bad she was, im glad that some on this thread agree with what iv said.

“I may not agree with you, but I will defend to the death your right to make an ass of yourself.”

Oscar Wilde

BurnleyMickSouth wrote: ↑

Thu Sep 05, 2024 8:58 pm

I make no comment on her being a woman, i said her voice was very flat, you had to think what the scores were going to be thats how bad she was, im glad that some on this thread agree with what iv said.

I 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.