At the risk of straying from the original point….
Can’t stand that Gerald Sinstadt. He telegraphs his cliches so much – you can see them coming a mile off. He prob thinks it’s clever and inventive but it’s just plain Lazy.
You can’t beat Barry Davies, IMHO. Forever marginalised by the BBC and cast in the shadow of that Autistic, SheepSkin coat-wearing, Spaz of a Stat-Bot; John Motson!
Davies had Poetry and eloquence. He understood that, sometimes, a silence could be as telling a description as a commentary.
That’s it.
Normal Service is Resumed
(Scrapping sound of soap-box being dragged back to the cupboard under the stairs)