I won't go into his commentating since what most of you guys are saying about him is mostly right .

On the other hand ..........

If you're all whining about Shebby being a pundit who is biased towards spurs then what about McMahon ?
Day in day out , he keeps praising Liverpool (eg: Liverpool have too much quality) and always predicts Liverpool will win although their form says otherwise. Even the betting advisor (whatever his name is) keeps picking on him because of it . Also tends to use "we" when talking about Liverpool too .

This post has been edited by Sey: Jan 16 2008, 05:30 PM

Actually I for one have never thought that Shebby was biased towards Spurs. I have met him in a bar before and had a conversation with him over a few beers and he comes across as a decent bloke, which is why I said my attacks weren't personal. A lot of people are the bar were giving him a lot of stick for being a Spurs fan but he just smiled and laughed it off. I don't think his comments are biased.

McMahon if you ask me, isn't all for Liverpool. Of course you can't compare his allegiance to the club with Shebby's. I mean McMahon actually played for the club, grew attached to them and has lived there. He however is not completely biased as you allege him to be. I'm sure some blokes can back me up on this; he has some pretty strong words to say about the club like "why keep rotating and not play your best players each week?", "why does Rafa always look at this game with the next in mind? Why not focus on each game as they come?", "Liverpool simply haven't got the quality". These are just some of his comments. He may be a Liverpool fan at heart and it may show sometimes, but even he isn't as optimistic as some posters here.

hmmm why cant they be biased .. lulz .. i have heard of commentator being bias as well ...

@ Sey, den u clearly have not watch enuff football focus imho. he has strong words whenever the team that he supports/played for is not doing well. he even blasted ( literally) rafa for his rotation policy ( even so til today). i stil remember this: "why rest ur best striker in torres on a weekend BPL match, but then play him on an midweek League Cup 3days later??" that was during the draw with birmingham. i liked some of his comments about teams ( no team in particular). maybe he has played for pool b4, that's why he knows more of the insight. chk out the argument between McMahon & Shebby if ur lucky. damn syok seeing McMahon counter back eli single comments the Shebby said. truly fascinating!.

@ Duke Red: ur absolute spot on!

Fair enough , but some of his comments still make me cringe . I quite enjoy listening to his comments about LFC every once in a while though .

@whoopa : Theres nothing wrong with supporting a team but biased commentating / punditry is annoying .

Eg: You're watching an Arsenal vs Newcastle game .

And you support newcastle ...

Fabregas scores ....

Commentator : "OMG FABREGAS WHAT A GOAL WHAT A GOAL !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"

Then the commentator will go on and talk about how great a side Arsenal is for the next 5 minutes . Would you feel pissed off?

It doesn't happen in all matches but sometimes tends to happen . Although i am a Man Utd fan , i really dislike it when the commentator says something in the terms of "Can Man Utd score ? They always score !!! " .


PS : I forgot to mention this on my last post but the IMHO worst pundit on espn is Sassy Kumar (although he is only on occasionally)

similar case with the world cup match Italy VS Australia when a last mins penalty,the chinese commemtator shout like shit...i wonder u heard it before?

refree oso will bias....y not commentator?
lol shebby singh still a human ma...represent malaysia...dun la bash him kao kao...
if u think u all r qualify y not u apply to espn?

Why not you first?

im not...thats y i dun bash him even i know he sucks

so whos da best????

i know it s annoying abt those biased pundit/commentator .. there was a game england vs australia ... the bloody commentator keep commenting how good australia is and how bad england was luzl ..

he may saw it from his point of view lah

If Jamie Yeo, on ESPN better. i am sure to watch the pre-match. Haha

He is Singaporean rite?

The best commentator in Malaysia so far AND improving all along. So he's doing an ok job so far.

ok lah sometimes he got stuck between mcmahon and others

This post has been edited by shah_ho_nam2: Jan 18 2008, 11:40 PM

shebby aint a commentator he's more of a pundit imo.he tends to stray off from the action during matches.better just stick to those football focus/cakap-cakap bola -like shows and not match commentating.and i really like it when mcmahon usually seems annoyed by his comments soo much
but thank god it aint zainal abidin rawop

i like commentators from Arab or Ori-Spanish commentator much much more....cos they dont sound very boring...when sum scores a goal they will shout GOALLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLL til god noes when....and their voices are very lively....

i thought shebby was our ex-national footballer.... hes Malaysian..

Arab ones are best.

E.g. Abdalla passed to Al mutalib who shots from edge of box, blocked by defender, out for a corner. This would sound in arabic as:

Abdalla blah blah blah Al Mutalib blah BLAH AHHH ahlamdulillah ahlamdulillah ahlamdulillah ahlamdulillah....


Even a boring 0-0 game during Asia cup e.g. Qatar v Vietnam sounded so exiting when they did the telecast on Astro Arab channel i think channel 25 . Much better then Mase & co at ESPN/Star sport.