There has been much talk of football commentators this week but twoht says we need them...but maybe not their sidekicks.
The art of the commentator isn’t dead; it’s their sidekicks that need silencingIn a recent Guardian article Jonathan Liew that the commentator should be replaced by silence, but it’s their sidekicks who need to disappear., and the gist of his piece was fairly straightforward. Commentators, he argues, talk too much these days, filling every available second with noise, no matter how useful or otherwise their thoughts might be.
Is there a fear that if the audience is left to its own devices for longer than three or four seconds, we might collectively have a moment of existential realisation of the futility of it all and switch over to watch something more intellectually stimulating like Love Island? But ‘braving the midday Mexican heat and the bone-rattling Boxing Day chill’ is a different matter. That’s what the commentators were – and probably should still be – there for. They were there to give the audience at home a flavour of what it was like to be inside the stadium, and to report on what was happening in real time. This is why pre-scripted commentary lines sound so obvious to the audience; you can’t pre-script the unexpected.
This is precisely why, for example, Barry Davies could be so adept at moving between football, Wimbledon tennis and hockey at the Olympics. The commentator was there to report what was happening on the pitch; the co-commentator was there to offer the professional’s perspective, to interpret what was happening and contextualise it.
There is no longer any need for anyone to interpret what’s going on during a match. That will be done, sometimes in excruciating detail, afterwards. A few seconds silence would certainly be considerably preferable to hearing Glenn Hoddle agonising live on the television over whether a tight call is offside or not as he watches it from four different angles, none of which will even give him the information that he actually needs to make a correct call.
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