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==Peter Drury== |
==Peter Drury== |
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| − | Peter Drury is a tiresomely pretentious, bombastic blabbermouth who flaps his gums during televised games on ITV. |
+ | Peter Drury is a tiresomely pretentious, bombastic blabbermouth who flaps his gums during televised games on ITV. |
While the old guardcghfkxkghcv of commentators simply deliver a summary of events on the pitch, Drury takes a very different approach to the job. |
While the old guardcghfkxkghcv of commentators simply deliver a summary of events on the pitch, Drury takes a very different approach to the job. |
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He has an obsession with using alliteration and will always give lists of three characteristics, even where one or more don’t really apply (E.g – Jermain Defoe, the perfect pint-sized package of pace, poise and panache). |
He has an obsession with using alliteration and will always give lists of three characteristics, even where one or more don’t really apply (E.g – Jermain Defoe, the perfect pint-sized package of pace, poise and panache). |
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| − | Whenever a player hits a dangerous shot, Drury will tend to use both his names unnecessarily (E.g - It's headed clear, but only as far as the edge of the box and Paul Parry...). |
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As his position at ITV has strengthened, Drury’s commentary has made increasingly infrequent reference to events on the pitch. |
As his position at ITV has strengthened, Drury’s commentary has made increasingly infrequent reference to events on the pitch. |
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Obviously, Chelsea went on to win the game 4-1. |
Obviously, Chelsea went on to win the game 4-1. |
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| − | ====Boat Race==== |
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| − | These days Drury also commentates on the Boat Race. His 20 minutes of appalling cliches turn a dull event into an unbearable one |
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| − | ====Comparisons to Chaucer==== |
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| − | Drury sounds suspiciously like [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jdWO9ozir1Y Paul Bettany's take on Geoffrey Chaucer in 2001's 'A Knight's Tale'], to the extent that it's almost certain that either a) Paul Bettany based the character on Drury or, more worryingly, b) that Drury is attempting to channel Geoffrey Chaucer. |
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[[Category: Commentators]] |
[[Category: Commentators]] |
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