Summary
KOLO TOURE was magnificent, Thierry Henry sublime, and Cesc Fabregas performed like the player we always hoped we might become. But there was one person at Highbury the other evening who merits at least a passing mention.
David Pleat is not an obvious choice for the role of television 'expert'. He is a serious man who disdains the spotlight. He does not arrive at a match with a sheaf of allpurpose phrases. He does not blame officials for the game's shortcomings, nor does he clamour for every big decision to be referred to a television director. He does not curry favour with managers, or use laddish nicknames, or cultivate modish jargon, or gabble counterfeit drama, or talk in tablets of stone, or attempt to pass off garbage as glory.See the full content of this document
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Nice to See Someone Talking Sense On Tv
Instead, he calls it as he sees...
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