6/14/2008

Why do ITV employ match summarisers who cannot pronounce names ?

Presumably ITV employ Sam Allarcyce and David pleat because they can summarise what happens in football match. The problem is that I fail to understand fully what they are saying because they keep making reference to players who are not in the pitch. Why ? Because they cannot pronounce foreign players names (although David Pleat has, for years, had problems with English names too).

Hearing Sam Allardyce referring before the Sweden vs Spain match to Zoltan over and over again (presumably he meant Zlatan Ibrahimovic), made me wonder if he was referring to some comic book alien King, whilst David Pleat seems to have problems with most of the Spanish team and half the Swedes too.

What is the point in summarising a match if you cannot even get the basics right like getting people's names correct ?

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