{"id":78,"date":"2006-06-20T18:57:19","date_gmt":"2006-06-20T18:57:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/spiritoffootball.com\/2006\/blog\/2006\/06\/20\/you-think-you-have-dodgy-pundits"},"modified":"2010-01-18T23:45:00","modified_gmt":"2010-01-18T23:45:00","slug":"you-think-you-have-dodgy-pundits","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theball.tv\/2006\/blog\/2006\/06\/20\/you-think-you-have-dodgy-pundits\/","title":{"rendered":"You think you have dodgy pundits?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/theball.tv\/common\/images\/2006\/hamburg\/ger_ham_netzer.jpg\" style=\"width:360px;height:240px\" alt=\"G\u00fcnter Netzer\" \/><br \/>\nGermany&#8217;s other pundit &#8212; other than Rudi V\u00f6ller, that is<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve been reading on various blogs, most humorously in <a href=\"http:\/\/200percent.blogspot.com\/2006\/06\/gubba-gubba-hey.html\">this post on twohundredpercent&#8217;s blog<\/a> which I came across because he commented on <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.guardian.co.uk\/worldcup06\/2006\/06\/17\/in_the_spirit_of_football.html\">our post on the Guardian blog<\/a> (was that the equivalent of a blogging love-in?) that the commentary on the games has been infuriating. In twohundredpercent&#8217;s words, &#8220;I think that we&#8217;ve all, at some point, found ourselves in a state of apopleptic rage at the coverage of the BBC and ITV at this World Cup.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>You have no idea what I&#8217;d give to be infuriated by the likes of Ian Wright or Jonathan Pearce. You should try listening to the bloke in the picture above. Oh my. To say that he&#8217;s a charisma-free zone would be an injustice to, say, Steve Davis&#8230; he makes Alan Hansen sound as entertaining as Bill Hicks.<\/p>\n<p>Hey ho, the national anthems are playing &#8212; signing off for now.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Bring it on!<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Germany&#8217;s other pundit &#8212; other than Rudi V\u00f6ller, that is I&#8217;ve been reading on various blogs, most humorously in this post on twohundredpercent&#8217;s blog which I came across because he commented on our post on the Guardian blog (was that the equivalent of a blogging love-in?) that the commentary on the games has been infuriating. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-78","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-germany"],"geo":null,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theball.tv\/2006\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theball.tv\/2006\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theball.tv\/2006\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theball.tv\/2006\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theball.tv\/2006\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=78"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/theball.tv\/2006\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":229,"href":"https:\/\/theball.tv\/2006\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78\/revisions\/229"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theball.tv\/2006\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=78"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theball.tv\/2006\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=78"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theball.tv\/2006\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=78"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}