Football Knowledge Not Required For Football Punditry

The football world is so vast it’s impossible for any sane-minded to person to have even a decent grasp of it all. So when it comes to faux pas or complete blanks when it comes to players, and it happens to us all, it’s certainly not the end of the world.

Well, unless you don’t know who Yaya Toure is. Or David Silva either. And you haven to present a sports show which prominently discusses football.

The two hosts, Porky Parry and Mick Graham, of TalkSport apparently discussed brand spankin’ new Man Cty signings Toure and Silva, and it sounds as though they were roundly unimpressed. The latter – it appears, at least – in particular had “never heard of Yaya Toure until the World Cup”. Either he’s been cuddling with Rip van Winkle for the last half-dozen years or the English media has struck again. (As Daryl says, “You can very easily make a career in English media by knowing about nothing but the Premier League.”)

The caller, probably Kolo Toure after some speech lessons, goes absolutely bananas, and rightly so, even though he could probably use his own fact-checking department. (Yaya’s won 1 Champions League and David has only 38 caps – both still very decent.) Both facts which can be found on Wikipedia without the slightest bit of shame. Because knowledge is power.

Still, he can be forgiven for lacking the details when so emphatically putting the show in its place. Which is somewhere over there, far away from the rest of the continet.

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Category: English Premier League