Ten sports "Analyst"

The most tortuous part in watching the Champions League on Ten Sports are the analysts. In particular, that Bald person (I dont know his name). Last year, at least the sky sports analysts were better and generally refrained from commenting in a derogatory way on certain Leagues. This year, However, it has been different.

Firstly, the Italian sides are viewed with contempt largely due to the scandal that has broken out in Serie-A. Those analysts (in particular that Bald bastard) would do well to go and do an internet search on Calciopoli- the Italian word for the Serie -A scandal. In fact, it is quite evident that the players have not been implicated. The referee fixing was in-fact done by the likes of Luciano Moggi, Adriano Galliani etal .. (they occupy position similar to a Peter Kenyon in Chelsea). So it is totally wrong to put the blame on the players. The world cup , in fact, proved the same. The players who shined in the world cup were- Fabio Cannavarro, Gigi Buffon, Andrea Pirlo, Zambrotta, Lilian Thuram, Zinedine Zidane, Thierry Henry, Patrick Viera. All these players in fact have played for Juventus - the club that has become the face of the scandal. The quality of these teams was never in-doubt. So it is totally wrong to brand a team like AC-Milan, the top-ranked club in Europe currently according to UEFA, as cheats (this was the exact word used by that Bald person). Serie-A currently might not be in the elite league of Europe, with the sale of top players due to the scandal and additionally empty stadiums with the average attendance for a Serie-A game dropping to 11,000. However, it is the league that has given football lovers the best of Maradona, Platini, Zidane, Zico, Lothar Matheus, Jurgen Klinsmann, Ruudi Voeller, Kaarl Heinz Ruminegge, Tony Cerezo, Falcao, Marco Van-Basten, Zvonmir Boban, Dejan Savisevic, Ruud Gullit, George Weah, Gabriel Batistuta, Javier Zanetti, Marcos Cafu, Laurent Blanc, Marcel Desailly, Lilian Thuram, Manuel Rui Costa, Pavel Nedved, Hernan Crespo not to mention the scores of Italian players and some of the best managers in the world like Marcelo Lippi, Fabio Capello, Arrigo Sacchi, Giovanni Trappatonni. Also, the successful Les Blues team of 1998 WC managed by Aime Jacquet was built with a distinct Italian flavor of balance (something u can see in the Madrid team currently with 2 DM's), a fact Jacquet himself tells openly. A healthier respect can be shown to a league than actually branding it a league of cheats.


Secondly, I was shocked when the Ten-sports analysts told that Internazionale (or Inter as it is called) do not have the quality to win a Champions League. They were telling that Inter can at-best enter the CL semi-finals. What can u say of a team that boasts of the quality of Recoba (this Uruguayan gem has the ability of a Ronaldinho but the consistency of an Agarkar), Figo, Solari, Cambiasso (one of the most consistent midfielders in Serie-A), Samuel, and either of Adriano/Crespo/Ibra, on the bench. There has actually never been any doubt about the quality of Inter, it has always been their lack of consistency that has been the problem. Inter have probably the most talented team at-least among the european clubs. Hopefully, they can show a lot more consistency.


The icing on the cake has got to go to the comment of that Bald person. He suggested that Ludvicic Guily is abetter player than Little Lionel and so should play in the starting XI of Barca. I am at loss of words to respond to this.