Are you in the minority or majority 
There is a reason why this thread exists and there isnāt a most liked pundit.
99% are absolutely dross, the best ones Iāve come across have actually been journalists. They would also be awful referees but that wouldnāt change much.
Goldbridge a YouTube ranter has made far more sense than most punditry on television regarding our goal on Saturday.
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https://x.com/AndyCantwell/status/1733135450372550904?s=20
The guy just digs deeper what a bellend.
If only I had thrown apples at a wall.
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someone make him stop 
Neil Lennon.
Iād never tire of punching that objectionable little fat ginger twat
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I mean calling Endo āthe japanese boyā just sort of says it all and thatās not even the main part of it!
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Ian Wright will step down as a pundit from Match of the Day at the end of the season after over 25 years on the programme.
I like Ian Wright. Always thought he talked sense and I respected his take on thingsā¦
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Likeable fella, but really, thereās not enough quality football stuff coming from him. Itās pretty ordinary and weak, sounds more like some of us mortals the pub rather than an ex-footballer from the highest level. I sense heās been more like a Micah Richards type of figure (put him together with Roy Keane and there you have it - different characters). Saw lately that when it comes to some deeper football talk, he doesnāt say much.
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what does that tell you?
either;
- hes was just an athlete that could kick a ball and didnt really āclickā with the tactical side of the game
or
- maybe some of the over analysis is just speaking for speakings sakeā¦football being a reasonably simple game played by people who spent hours practicing technique and (traditionally) not working on self improvement outside of their own physical conditionā¦meaning you dont have to be stupid to play football, but if you are it wont hinder youā¦
maybe us plebs want to think the game is more complex than it is at that top level as some kind of mitigating factor to why we ourselves ādidnt make itā
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Nail on head.
The game is over analysed to death these days.
Not sure whatās worse, tiresome pundits or deluded supporters
Yup the leaps are in fitness not in the game itself.
Iād rather keep him and move some of the others on 
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Definitely. Give me Wright over Richards any day of the week.
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I think it is a sport that can be more complex than a lot of players/ coaches will admit too, and where lots of players/ coaches thrive without having a really deep understanding of the game (as can be witnessed by their comments).
The criticism from many fans is largely aimed towards those who lack that deeper understanding but refuse to acknowledge that fact and also often appear to make no attempt to learn the actual rules.
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Maybe thatās overthinking?
Thereās different levels eveywhere, among us mortals in the street/pub and among (ex)professionals or simply people in media.
Game is simple, but itās not really like thereās nothing to talk about or explain better. Sure we can all say thereās 22 people with a tiny ball on a massive pitch and who scores more wins. But football is actually a sport where there actually is lots to talk about.
Itās a very free sport, even a bit stupid (objectivelly saying, because I love it, but understand it if some find it boring), but itās also a big reason why itās beautiful and so popular. For so many actions or sequences on the pitch you could have 10 people with 10 different views.
Itās more often that I see shit punditry thatās almost like pub talk (but theyāre getting paid for it), rather than people who know more, but overanalyze. Can happen, but I think itās pretty easy to see when itās really good (MNF stuff, etc.). If some donāt understand or donāt want to, thatās also absolutely fine. Thereās what weāre served and thereās also us, the audience.
Wright is not a shit pundit, but for what heās there first and foremost (talking football), compared to others heās often surrounded with, he comes short in my opinion (and not the only one). I understand heās a guy with many interests, maybe he doesnāt follow football as much as someone like Carra.
I also understand theyāre trying to match different characters to make it interesting almost from a Big Brother point of view. Put a āKeaneā alongside a āMicahā. See how it goes, regardless of their football talk.
Most of us like Wright, perhaps heād be better in those 1v1 interviews rather than come on shows where they have the time to go into deeper detail.
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Football is fascinating largely because it can played at a fairly good level between teams with a huge gulf in the complexity of their approaches. On one side you can have a team whose tactics and approach are incredibly basic and not too dissimilar to the level of tactical understanding that could be employed by the guy down the pub. And on the side you have professorial types.
I think football is boring if everyone plays the same way, but have a bias towards a bit more complexity in approaches and think it is backed up pretty well by data to say that there is a ceiling to how how a team can go without employing some level of tactical complexity above āman down the pubā to their approach.
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What you currently have is a bunch of snide cnuts making excuses for teams without them because they once played for them or the other team is a hated rival.
Wright has never particularly been like that domestically though was a bit of a dick on internationals.
Like who is demonstrating really top notch analysis? Best Iāve seen is the European journalists on BT Sport a while back. La Liga TV isnāt bad but theyāve turned that into a game almost at times.
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Garth Crooks bizarrely picks Manchester United pair in Team of the Week as Liverpool point made
Story by Tom Cavilla ā¢ 44m
BBC pundit Garth Crooks has surprisingly included two Manchester United players in his latest Premier League Team of the Week.
Crooks, known for his controversial takes, opted to include Andre Onana in goal and Diogo Dalot in the defensive department. Such choices have come as a surprise given the lacklustre nature of Unitedās performance at Anfield, during which Erik ten Hagās side did not appear impressive at either end of the pitch.
Onana was guilty of kicking the ball out of play a number of times, under no pressure from Liverpool on certain occasions, and was only called on to make one save of note after tipping over a goalbound Virgil van Dijk header.
Offering his rationale behind selecting the Cameroonian shot-stopper, Crooks said "As far as goalkeepers are concerned, I donāt rate the Cameroon international very highly at all.
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