Have Football Pundits Become Too Critical Of The Players They Are Now Depending On For A Living?

[Colmc54]

I'm watching BT sport right now and I'm getting tired of the negative real-time analysis by former players the worst offender of which is Michael Owen.
How can it help BT when the pundits belittle the efforts of the players and as for the obsession with the slightest deflection-well enough said hopefully!

[Gromit]

The commentary on the Tottenham match was terrible and very irritating. I'm watching the United match on a US channel instead.

[ToraToraTora]

I don't think so, they are paid to analyse the game and that means highlighting the rough with the smooth. The viewers I hope are capable of objectivity.

[agchristie]

It's not just players it's referees that seem to be questioned more and more. I remember Cloughie slating John Motson and MOTD.

The game is so much more analytical and there's never enough punditry. You mention Michael Owen but he's not as snarling as Roy Keane. Old habits are hard to shake off!

[Colmc54]

Paul Scholes' comments were more about getting rid of LVG than they were about a really good performance by LFC-really good.
As an EPL neutral should I pay to watch a sport where the experts say the winners were lucky because the team they were playing were rubbish.
Liverpool did enough to totally frustrate MU's game plan and then the chances came. That's all. Maybe LVG is not a plan B kind of manager but let's see what happens in the next leg.

[douglas9401]

Maybe they're like me and wonder exactly how some of these dying swans made from the finest crystal manage to justify their massive wages for shuffling around for 88 out of ninety minutes until somebody delivers the ball to their shooting foot and they can finally be arsed to do what they're paid for.
Nice work if you can get it.

[agchristie]

^ cue The Jam, 'That's Entertainment' ...

[Colmc54]

Re-heard Scholsie's 'shambles' comments on BBC news this morning.

The problem extends, and then some, into their criticism of the English international side. If 'we' lose it is apparently never because the other team played better but because 'our' team was rubbish.