| Rank |
Pundit |
Details |
| 1 |
Guillem Balague |
Some incisive punditry on Sky's La Liga coverage gives the
Espanol fan a table topping position.
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| 2 |
Eamon Dunphy |
Anyone who's ever seen the likes of Dunphy, Liam Brady and Johny Giles on RTE will now want to
watch the 'old boys club' of MOTD again. Opinionated, passionate, insightful, and interesting.
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| 3 |
Liam Brady |
See Eamon Dunphy.
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| 4 |
Marcel Desailly |
Match of the Day new boy's a refreshing addition to the
Beeb's much criticised team. Unlike many who've appeared on
the show he seems to say what he thinks.
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| 5 |
Pat Nevin |
No fence-sitting like so many other pundits. Pat
says it how he sees it, which is a good thing in
our book.
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| 6 |
Don Goodman |
Good work on Sky and Radio 5 from the likeable ex-striker.
Good banter with the commentator and some funny remarks.
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| 7 |
Chris Waddle |
The Geordie accent may grate with some of our well-spoken
frineds from the South, but not with us. Good banter, some
decent points, and of course he's been there and done
it when it comes to the matches.
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| 8 |
Chris Kamara |
Love him or loathe him, there's no denying Kamara's enthusiasm is
almost infectious. His tactical nous may occasionally be lacking
but you're guaranteed a good few laughs along the way.
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| 9 |
Stan Collymore |
Surprisingly good punditry from Collymore on Radio 5 gives
him a top 5 place. Surprisingly good knowledge of the
game.
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| 10 |
Steve Claridge |
Another pundit who fans seem to either really like
or who makes them reach for the off button. We're
in the like camp. His punditry resembles his playing days
- a bit rough round the edges, and sometimes going
off at strange angles, but comes good every now
and again with important strikes.
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| 11 |
Alan Hansen |
Hansen knows his onions but the "Look at me, I'm the
number one pundit" attitude doesn't wash with us.
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| 12 |
Gavin Peacock |
A rival to Jamie Redknapp in the nice stakes, but
prepared to stand his ground much more in an argument.
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| 13 |
Roberto Martinez |
Like many foreign pundits that Sky get on their programmes
Martinez makes some interesting points, and his use of English
is better than many home-grown pundits.
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| 14 |
Jamie Redknapp |
What can we say ? Terrible pundit but what a nice bloke.
He's a bit like the guy off the Fast Show who ends up agreeing
with everyone else and therefore contradicting all his previous
comments.
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| 15 |
Mark Lawrenson |
Lawro's always looking for a place to insert his next
gag, but often at the expense of any decent
tactical comments or chat.
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| 16 |
Paul Merson |
Let's face it, some of Merse's gaff's and nonsense are in danger of elevating him to cult status,
and it's a good job too, because his serious match analysis needs planty of work.
Very watchable, in a "what the hell will he say next ?" kind of way.
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| 17 |
Graham Taylor |
A regular on BBC 5 Live's radio coverage, he's a likeable
enough bloke, and although a lot of his views are old
school it often works well as balancing act against some
of the younger guns and their new-fangled ideas.
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| 18 |
Neil Lennon |
Struggling. Possibly because he's new to it but the
Irishman needs to inject a bit of the passion
that he used to show in the Celtic midfield.
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| 19 |
Garth Crooks |
There's plenty of you out there who would argue that Garth's bizarre punditry should have him in the
very bowels of the pundit-o-meter, but his quirky style inches him ahead of some of the others at the foot
of the table.
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| 20 |
David Pleat |
There's something about Pleaty that annoys us.
He's becoming a bit like the John Motson of punditry,
thinking that his observations are definitive.
And we really dont like it when he tries to make witty remarks.
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| 21 |
Warren Barton |
His appearances on Sky's Premiership mataches has
increased the impression that he appears to have been
reading the Terry Venables book of football punditry.
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| 22 |
Matt Le Tissier |
He may have had all the flair in the world on the pitch
but in the studio Le Tiss is on the last train to
Dullsville. Time to spice up the punditry Matt.
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| 23 |
Ian Wright |
'Loveable rogue' Wrighty only seems to be in the MOTD punditry chairs so that Lineker and Co can
look on agog at his whacky OTT antics during England games and play 'funny' clips of him
jumping around when England have scored. Even my Gran now finds it mildly irritating.
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| 24 |
Alan Shearer |
Proof indeed that great players do not necessarily make great pundits. The classic syndrome of
ex-player-turned-pundit who gives the impression that he doesn't like to critisize in case he offends.
And when on international punditry duty it's all too obvious that he knows naff all about players
unless they're from the Premiership.
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| 25 |
Lee Dixon |
How did he get this plum job at the BBC ?
And how much are they paying him ? Are they paying
him ? or is that the reason behind his continuing
presence ? We still haven't forgotten how he mocked
Owen Hargreaves before the 2006 World Cup.
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