Why is football punditry so bloody dull? Who is the worst football pundit on UK TV?
Ex-pros might know how to kick a ball, but most of them don’t know their tactics from their TikToks. So broadcasters, either give your pundits some bloody homework or send them to the naughty step.
Terrible penalty analysis. Here’s a hot take for you: Cole Palmer isn’t that great at penalties.
Props to him. But there’s an absurd, age-old formula in football that needs dismantling, and it goes something like this: Converted penalty = good penalty.
Saved penalty = bad penalty. In short, they’re pretty saveable.
Yet all I keep hearing is “great pen”, “great pen”, “great pen” like I’m at a flipping Biro convention. I’ve also seen keepers make fingertip saves from efforts that were blasted an inch inside the post, only for commentators, pundits and fans to grumble: “Poor penalty, that.” It’s schoolboy analysis, Michael Owen style.
How about we start judging spot-kicks on their technical merit, rather than on whether or not the goalie jumped out of the way. Because I hate to break it to you numbskulls but bad penalties go in, and good penalties get saved.
It ain’t rocket science.
