Eagle
Hmm, I haven't actually heard anyone have a gripe with James Allen yet, care to elaborate?
Oh, absolutely. The guy's an idiot.
He absolutely
adores Michael Schumacher. To the point that you wonder if he bends over in the back of the garages.
He continually mis-reads the times, or misinterprets them (he'll say that 0.750 is seven-tenths, not three-quarters).
He has no awareness of the race times, so when one car exits the pits in front of another, he gets confused as to which driver it is, thus incorrectly announcing position changes, or missing genuine ones.
He has a "puppy dog" style of commentary: "Do you remember when <insert anecdote>? D'ya remember? D'ya?" (yap yap yap)
He continually "recaps" the race, after each ad break, for those that have "just joined".
He
still hasn't grasped the subtleties of one-lap qualifying.
His off-pat expressions ("bought and paid for", "in the box seats" etc) are extremely annoying.
He's in love with Martin Brundle.
Basically, he's so intent on making sure that he doesn't alienate the casual watcher that he alienates the hard core of fans. He's patronising. He occupies himself with explaining the obvious, thus missing the subtle things that make the race interesting. He has no race-to-race continuity, it's like each race is a new adventure to him, full of exciting new things. Then you get the "Do you remember Do you remember Do you remember Do you remember" chat again. It's like watching an entire series of
Gardener's World only to be told how to mow the lawn in each episode. His grasp of the English Language is not sufficient for his job (although we'd better not mention Mark Blundell at this point).
Bring back Murray Walker.
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But I do hear you.
