Battle of the World Cup Pundits....
The World Cup has been more than the expected stop-gap for Gooners until August brings us the Emirates Cup and the welcome return of our much-missed team. No, it's been a fillip, a shot in the arm to our flagging spirits as we lollop around like it's permanently 1pm on a Sunday, in a mental fugue attempting to recover from a session of inebriation, attempting in vain to ignore the inane transfer sh!te that fills our every waking minute.
It helps that it's been thoroughly entertaining, the snoozefest of Nigeria Vs Iran aside. Goals, goal-line tech, goal-line tech cock-ups, errors and questionable team-selections. It's been what I remember a World Cup being. A festival of football, a smorgasbord of soccer, the luminaries of our beloved game uniting in an attempt to be crowned the World Champions. I know I'm getting a tad sugar-coated, but isn't it nice when football is without the added ingredient of Sultans cash, hated rivals goading and the loathed transfer speculation. It's all we enjoy ( minus the cannon ) with the added bonus of all Vuvuzelas grouped together and recycled en masse, to create a spectacle.
Back to my cynical self. Ooh, that IS a comfortable fit. An enjoyable side-mission to the matches and trying to predict the scores is gauging the pundits. As Gooners, we only have a select cadre of supposed 'specialists' who aren't so biased they would make a referendum in Iran blush. We all have our most hated as well, a vile cognoscente that surely take up a place in the Deep Below, being continually shown our Invincibles season. BBC and ITV, our Chief purveyors of the games, have made a lot of their recruitment of 'Super Pundits', a phrase of such epic buffoonery I will not type it again. The line-ups of each channel is as follows:
| ITV | BBC |
| Dixon | Shearer |
| Hoddle | Seedorf |
| Cannavaro | Titi |
| Vieira | Savage |
| Poyet | Ferdinand |
| Townsend | Keown |
So, if you look at it objectively, then you would say both have their fair share of knowledge and star quality. Who has the best line-up though? Who can claim to have the best show thanks to their array of leading lights? In the immortal words of Harry Hill, there is only one way to find out..................FIGHT!!!!!!
