Sky Sports review: commentators 34

Why are all football commentators so biased they pick a team before the match starts and spend the entire game singing their praises

I would love to hear some good old fashioned commentary just telling us who's on the ball etc not a complete history on the team they are supporting during that game

And stop constantly showing replays

We just want to watch the game by the time the camera returns to play we have missed a lot of the action

Who can I complain to about these points?

Appalled at a comment by Gary Neville on Erling Haaland during Manchester City vs Manchester United game on Sunday, 2nd October when he called this exceptionally talented player a “freak”. This sort of name calling would be bad enough in the school playground, but from a public figure on a major broadcaster like Sky is absolutely disgraceful and Mr Neville should be very ashamed and apologise. Sky should take action too.

Just watched Newcastle beat Arsenal and them 2 numpty's talked about arsenal not winning and not making the champions league, still no comments about how well Newcastle played.

Totally against Newcastle you bunch of money orientated bunch of arseholes.

It was nasal not ASAP

Why do we have to listen to Jamie Carragher and his inane ASAP drivel

Also why is the disgusting Jamie carragher who spits at little girls allowed to draw a wage commentating on matches shown by sky has sky no morals they must think that ex footballers spitting at girls is acceptable obviously, or they wouldn't appoint him ? That was a form of assault by the disgusting man, and I for one don't want to listen to his uneducated broad slang of a voice throughout a match, his accent is like listening to an over excited schoolkids

The commentators on today's man utd v everton game are a disgrace, Jamie carragher and bill never heard of him have done nothing but shout out for everton throughout the game, their voices raising decibels every time everton get the ball but both were silent after utd s equaliser ! If commentators cannot remain neutral as is their JOB then they are not fit to commentate so sack them. The public don't want to listen throughout a game to biased favouritism and personal preference of a commentators opinions

Why do your commentators constantly mispronounce footballers names ?---its not difficult to find out the correct way to pronounce them before a match. Recent examples---Liverpool players--- SAARLAAR--is not how the Egyptians name is pronounced and Matip is not pronounced MAARTIP
Have the commentators check the players names before the match please---totally unprofessional at the moment

Martin Tyler. He does not commentate on the action actually happening during the game. Is he not supposed to the “match commentater”. All he does along with his other side kicks is talk and talk about facts and figures and inane chit chat some of which reduces him to giggling. Not very funny for the rest of us trying to watch the game. Also the volume of his voice drowns out the stadium noise. Shame. He ruins every game I watch. Yesterday in the end we resorted to watching the Man Utd v Bournemouth game with the volume turned to zero. I have cancelled my Sky Sports subscription. Shame.

R.J.Robinson Sherborne

Sky still using the contemptible Jamie Carragher but it typifies the lack of integrity at Sky Sport. If spitting is acceptable what about vomiting as the next public display of contempt for football fans?

I am totally disgusted with Jamie Carragher for spitting at a 14 year old girl sitting in the passenger side of her father car.All he had to do was keep his window closed and turn his radio up. SPITTING at someone is the lowest of the low.He apologised and said it was out of character in 2002 when he threw the coin back into the crowd at Arsenal was also out of character. Spitting is vile and disgusting if he keeps his job I foe one will cancel my sky subscriptions hope more people follow suite.

I agree with both comments. McEnroe and Petchey are dreadful commentators. They regularly talk through rallies and are incapable of making brief succinct comments, keeping up a constant stream of talk, introducing irrelevant things about people in the crowd or past events often while rallies are in progress, instead of concentrating on the match and illuminating the tactics in between points. I have regularly had to turn the sound off during matches because they have been so infuriating. Simon Reed and Frew McMillan are far, far better, probably because they do not have such huge egos and are able to allow the audience to enjoy the rallies, only making illuminating comments when necessary and NEVER during rallies. I get the impression that the Sky Sports producers have no control over McEnroe's and Petchey's behaviour in spoiling matches for many people.

Gary Neville is an absolute disgrace on the comment he made not once.but twice about a fan of arsenal holding up a banner saying enough is enough it, s time to go he, s entitled to his opinion as he pays his money to watch his team and Neville called him an idiot .this is not acceptable he should be sacked as a commentator for that remark as there were children watching the game against Chelsea who can I speak to to complain further about this disgraceful man

Why are so few South African Super Rugby matches shown. Even in the semi finals the game played in Australia was shown yet the Stormers game at Newlands was not. This has been the pattern the whole season and on the occasions when you have shown a game, invariably the second half has been on the red button preventing recording of the match. There is a large contingent of Ex Bokke in this country, more so than Aussies and New Zelanders together. So Why, Why, Why ?

How on earth do sky sport keep using Alan Smith as a commentor he is one of the most biased of arsenal fans . Then can do no wrong it's so sickening to listen to the rubbish coming out of he's gob please please get rid of him on arsenal games he's a joke

Sky sports presenters ED Chaimberlin and other presenters please stop giving the results of other matches that are being shown on another channel at the same time, don't you realise that as sports fans we are very likely to be sky plusing the other match and all you do is ruin it for thousands of people that have recorded it and to cap it all this week after the liverpool / swansea game he felt the need to even tell us that van gerwin had just won his world darts match which I and no doubt thousands of other sports fanatics was recording,
PLEASE PLEASE will you just stick to the game that you are covering, if we want to know other scores we will switch to sky sports news, we only want your input about the match you are covering, which by the way you do very well
Regards Neil Redditch

i would like to complain about wayne mardle on his comments about michael van gerwen saying michael van gerning mardle, is no oil painting. van gerwen is the next best thing to phil taylor and as a young man at the top of his game he should not have to put up with these insults.

Why do we have commentators during a live football match. I accept the pre match talk, the half time chat, and the after match
discussion. But to have a commentator, like Garry Neville, talking none stop for the whole of the 90 mins is aweful.
I get so fed up with their continual chat I have to mute the sound.
If you go to see a live match and sit in the stand, the last thing you want is some one sitting next to telling you whats going on.

I say get rid of the commentating during the actual match, let us hear the crowd, and hear their comments.

Martin Tyler is clearly a Man Utd fan his commentary is so badly biased, recently his commentary on the derby match with Man City and his repeated negativity when commentating in City is an embarrassment to Sky. Even Gary Neville is not agreeing with him. Martin Tyler is an embarrassment to impartial commentary

after watching Manchester derby can't believe Sky sports have Niall Quinn commentating. Might have been as well sitting in Man City executive box! What happened to the days of impartial commentary?

just watching wolves, man city game and the commentators are desperate for wolves to equalise.its so obviously they are man u fans, not for the first time this season

Absolutely true! Two sky 'pundits' in the studio wanting Manure to win, why on earth didn't sky have an ex Chelsea player to even things up?

I totally agree! As for Alan Smith giving Rooney the man of the match, laugh I nearly fell over!
The other commentator on the game, is he paid by united (what a comeback!) His comments are disgraceful and never give the other team any credit (unless the other team happens to be United of course)
And the after match interview was a disgrace! Ferguson gets 5 mins to talk his talk and Geoff shreeves really rudely and abruptly cuts AVB off mid-sentence after 30 seconds, not much bias there then!Sky commentators and pundits are so up United's backsides its untrue!