Anyone watch the Cameroon v Congo highlights. Cameroon were quite good and Lua Lua was basically the only decent Congo player. He had their only attempts on goal and attracted some praise and a lot of criticism for being greedy and not being able to make a decision on when to lay the ball off etc....

-- Anonymous, January 21, 2002

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Yep doug, mentioned this game on the Um Bongo thread... All contributes to my argument that LLL can't pass (Robert through-ball v Arsenal excepted). Anyone who missed Mboma's (sp?) goal last night, try and find a clip. Frickin' thunderbolt.

-- Anonymous, January 21, 2002

Mbomba's goal. Bit of a quality blast - power and accuracy. LuaX2 still played like he does for us - unpredictable, dancing on the ball, lots of huff and puff. End result, no goals.

Dan, did you think last night was Garth's finest performance in front of camera? His round up and end-the-show line was something magical :-)

-- Anonymous, January 21, 2002

Bob - you'll be pleased to know that thanks to my ceaseless campaigning, Garth may be making an appearance on Alistair McGowan's next series...

-- Anonymous, January 21, 2002

I am thrilled! Will he be wearing a rather stunning shirt, and look a bit daft trying to listen to his earpiece and deliver a line to camera?

He was so bad, he made John Salako look professional...as a footballer

-- Anonymous, January 21, 2002

Wasn't Salako one of the first to work on Sky, with some lass presenting a show on Sky Sports?

-- Anonymous, January 21, 2002

If he's on, he'll be largely in voice only, given the difficulty in making AMcG look like GC.

-- Anonymous, January 21, 2002

I cannot abide GC. The only person who could possibly give his egomaniac, twitching, camera-hogging nonsense justice would be Jeff Goldblum.

-- Anonymous, January 22, 2002

Aargh! I can't get that talentless moron out of my head now: chin resting on steepled fingers as he attempts to nod wisely, asking enormously long-winded questions which require only the answer yes or no instead of giving the interviewee a chance to venture one of their own opinions. Where's my chainsaw?

-- Anonymous, January 22, 2002

Do I say 'yes' or 'no' to that one?

Sadly, I missed Garth's sublime efforts last night. Anyone see the hopeless heap of crap?

-- Anonymous, January 22, 2002

This a fairly new phenomena Softie, and exclusively the territory of the "celebrity interviewer" - who is primarily interested in dominating the air-time, and couldn't care less about the poor shmuck he/she happens to be interviewing or even less, what they have to say. Having said that, Garth Crooks is hardly to be classed as a celebrity, except in his own mind perhaps!

Other notable candidates for this category are Frank Skinner, Ruby Wax, Johnny Vaughn, Lilly Savage - and increasingly Jeremy Paxman, although he is still superb. The originator of the genre was arguably Dame Edna Everidge.

-- Anonymous, January 22, 2002

When do the Congo DR play next?

-- Anonymous, January 22, 2002

Saturday, vs Togo. This BBC web site has it all

-- Anonymous, January 22, 2002

But this is an altogether better link. In fact, I insist that Dan and Softie click this link now! Go on, click it! :-))

-- Anonymous, January 22, 2002

Heh! Heh! Heh! This will need serious contemplation before penning a question :-)

-- Anonymous, January 22, 2002