Without A Kerr In The World

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briankerr

This is not Rio.

By any stretch, in fairness.

Colm writes:

“Brian Kerr @ 1.11m in crowd at Dalymount on Friday, Commentated on 3rd place playoff on Saturday on RTE, I assumed from Brazil, unless he was flying by the speed of light I doubt he was commentating from the actual game, TV licence? Can i commentate on a World Cup from my Gaff next time…”

Over to you Bill anyone?

*throws pencil*

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31 thoughts on “Without A Kerr In The World

  1. James

    He was also in the studio when Aprés Match were finishing up. So perhaps he’s a time travelling teleporter? Or they only sent one or two commentary teams? I’m guessing teleporter.

    1. PJ

      He was in Ireland commentating yes, however (just to be pedantic) the end of après match was prerecorded. So he was probably still over in wherever they do the sports commentary in Montrose.

      1. ShmokesaShmoke

        to be even more pedantic, they never actually showed his face there as far as I could tell! Could have been an auld mpuppet

    1. cluster

      Yup, ‘specially since even when commentators are at a match, they will generally be commentating from the TV screen. This is true of foreign networks as much as RTE.

  2. Mikeyfex

    Himself and Stephen Alkin were the best commentary pairing in my opinion. Kerr was funny but also better than most for the young aspiring footballers to listen to. Commenting on positional and movement aspects and not just repeating what just happened along with a replay.

      1. DD

        A few seasons ago Kerr was commentating on a Europa League match when Fulham were in it. Fulham conceded and he referred to their defending as, “very unfulhamistical”.

  3. Conor H

    They sent over George and Ray and Peter Collins and Trevor Steven. Ray went home early cos he was sick. Also ye Apres Match ripped the piss out of this on the night in question. Sending 5 commentary teams would have been pretty expensive. So no problem, although their weird attempts to pretend they were over there were pretty shameful.

    Jim Begin and Stephen Alkin were the worst culprits for this in the early stages.

    1. TarfHead

      Stephen Alkin mentioned, in one game, that a goal was needed to ‘break the dreadlock’.

    1. PJ

      The part at the end of Après match was pre-recorded. They had to in order to get the ‘punch’ sound effects right and have the two commentators in the right position.

  4. Medium Sized C

    I’m sitting here wondering what kind of a moaning feckwitted fool you would be, to be complaining about RTE not being spent on sending Brian Kerr to Brazil.

    It depends Colm, beside being a Moaning feckwitted fool, do you perchance have any international football playing or coaching experience?
    Any commentary experience?
    Do you think that being there is the only thing that qualifies someone to commentate?

  5. philip

    RTE only sent two commentators out to Brazil. Ray Houghton and George Hamilton.

    The rest of the team stayed in ireland.

    RTE does this all the time at Major Tournaments to save money. Also when they had rights to the Premier league all the commentary was done past-match at RTE

  6. PKX

    Good man Sherlock, did you think you were onto something huge? It was common knowledge himself and Alkin were commentating from Montrose. Also the biggest clue was their appearance at the end of the Apres Match sketch on the same night.

  7. Nell496

    I don’t care if he was in studio or Brazil, he was by far the best commentator RTE had for the World Cup. Some of his comments were hilarious, like he was in front of his TV at home chatting to his pals/family. Well done Brian.

    Brian Kerr for President:-)

    1. Bingo

      Yep.
      Some lad was telling me that they didn’t like Kerr because be sounded “unprofessional”.
      I recommended the smugfest that is BBCs football coverage.
      Lawro moaning throughout….

    2. WhoAreYa

      Completely agree – though it’s damning with faint praise.

      George Hamilton is good at the classical music commentating in fairness and in a harmonic counterpoint to this story, it appeared to me that he DID pre-record his weekly Saturday show on Lyric FM but IN Brazil as he referred to the history of the Brazilian cities he was in during the shows. Amazing what they can do nowadays.

  8. Colm

    i take it all back , my hand has been slapped , i apologize profusely to all the telecommunications experts, that i didn’t have that common knowledge …. does junior internationals count??

    i assumed that Kerr got that his tan from lounging around on the copacabana beach while Stephen Alkin served him Caipirinhas.

    Keyboard warriors out in force today….. If we learned nothing else today is the standard of the goals in the match were of the highest quailty, which was my real intention to showcase Irish football at its best :-)

    1. WhoAreYa

      #backofthenet

      come back tomorrow for the next round of fixtures, same few overweight journeymen here daily – e.g. huffing and puffing midfield ‘dynamoes’ slugging it out with a few ‘left-wingers’ and ‘right’ backs, lots of cheap shots mostly off-target but one or two decent keepers

    2. LiamZero

      Not good enough, Colm. You’re going to have to make some sort of televised apology. Maybe take a full-page out in the papers too. We need to know you are genuinely ashamed of what you did.
      Still, you might get to go on Celebrity Big Brother after all that, so every cloud, etc.

  9. Bingo

    From obscure Beatles reference to “Roight Said Fred” in one half of a meaningless third place place off.
    All in a nights work for the man known as ‘The Greener’.

    I love Kerr, unlucky as Ireland manager.
    Caught out in an away game in Israel.

  10. Conor

    Hang on, you’re b*tching because they DIDN’T squander your TV licence money on sending Brian Kerr to Brazil?

    Colm, would you ever f**k off.

  11. Count Chuckula

    The way I see it, if the commentators are in a tiny room down the corridor, the studio anchor should say “Now we hand you over to Such & Such in a tiny room down the corridor” and not “Now we hand you over to Such & Such at the Estádio Maracanã”. If they’re actually sitting in the press box at the Estádio Maracanã, that’s cool. Otherwise its just pretend.

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