Jose Mourinho had some harsh words to say about a certain pundit after Tuesday's League Cup semi-final. He said that
"you are very well paid, much more than some managers that have to put their ass for 90 minutes every week on the bench. You have a very good seat, very good money, no pressure. They are always right, they never lose, they always win.”
I sympathise with Mourinho's frustration over pundits who often come close to spoiling my enjoyment of the game with their idiotic, often uneducated comments. And I am going to be strongly criticizing some of them in the next few weeks in a vain attempt to somehow hold them to account.
So, let's start with the presumed target of Mourinho's criticism, Sky TV's sharply-dressed Premier League pundit cockney, Jamie Redknapp.
As a player, his time with Liverpool coincided with the club's longest trophy drought since the 1950s (between 1992 and 2001 they won one League Cup). As a pundit, his time on TV has coincided with some of the worst broadcasting I've ever seen.
In his defence, he hasn't been afraid to criticize Mourinho on a number of occasions when he probably deserved it. But he's made far too many gaffes to be credible. See here, for example, where he misunderstands Jamie Carragher's proposition to award either a red card or a penalty, but not both, for a professional foul inside the box.
Talk about missing the point!
And here Redknapp is on transfer deadline day earlier in the season when he said that Arsenal should sign Falcao because they don't have any world class strikers (despite just having signed Alexei Sanchez).
Sanchez is now of course one of the favorites for footballer of the year whereas Falcao has been a complete flop. Redknapp is a wazzock.
I also have never seen him give the kind of intelligent, in-depth analysis which the likes of Gary Neville and Jamie Carragher provide. Redknapp just seems to be an undeniably good-looking but rather thick, ex-footballer celebrity Spice-boy.
Quite frankly, I wish he would just stick to the film premiers and leave punditry to the smart lads.
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