Snowflake Royal Nice to see more people finally seeing what an absolute shambles he is.
Hopefully this period will be the end of his job commentating on us.
They were both pretty poor last night. I like Mick Gooding but, for the second game in a row was shocked, at how ill-prepared he seemed for his role as co-commentator/play by play analyst. Once again he turned up without even a team sheet, so was unable to identify players. He appears to know relatively little about other players in The Championship and clearly spends very little, if any, time researching them.
Our daughter is in the early stages of a career in football (sorry, soccer!) commentating in the US. I know she spends hours before each game researching the teams and all of the players that are likely to be appearing. That includes watching previous games/highlights and collating stats and 'interesting facts' on each of the players into a spreadsheet. She does the same whether it be a High School, NCAA or USL game that she is commentating on. When you take into account all of the prep time, the hourly pay rate drops quite significantly! However, for anyone who loves football, it's as much a labour of love as 'a job'.
I doubt BBCRB pay very well but IMO Mick really needs to spend a little bit more time preparing!