Talk, talk

Football punditry is not great on the BBC, but it drops a number of levels on ITV.

Tonight we have Andy Townsend (ok ex-Saint, but wouldn't get a job on the BBC), Teddy Sherringham (dull, dull, dull. One for the female viewers is the best I can suggest) and worst of all... Joe Cole.

Now he would be playing tonight (or at least on the bench) if he wasn't injured. So what's he going to say? Hmmm..." the lads done good/tried hard/were unlucky" is the most insight you're going to get from a current member of the squad, whose mates are playing! What we need is a proper impartial pundit, hopefully a journalist to give some balance, but there's little chance of that happening. The main attribute you seem to need is to have played the game, not be able to string together an original or "whisper it" critical opinion.

That's why Baddiel & Skinner or most football podcasts are so good...no ex-players!!!