You can e-mail David Mitchell if you so wish. I never will, though.
He's writing about SPORT. Is there no end to this man's talents? Sigh.
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terrible writer though
someone with no interest in sport writing about it - yuck. Russell Brand was much better.
he invented hand tennis
IS THERE NO END TO THIS MAN'S TALENTS?
The Guardian is pretty good for sports writing, tho'. I didnae realise. Second sport article I've read in a week.
...
http://blogs.guardian.co.uk/sport/
pretty much gets me through the day
hate to say this
but there's no sport I like. I like the general discussion articles where they talk around sport.
The Sport 'comment' section is brilliant.
But it does make up for the appalling polemic spouted by most of the other comment writers.
^ this
I like Marina Hyde writing about sport in general. Although I imagine I'd like Marina Hyde writing about In The Night Garden... Apparently she was on some BBC programme last night...? Off to iPlayer to find this...
^ harry pearson
knocks out a mean one
i think thats him. he looks like billy bragg
yeah but
thats his whole befuddled outsider schtick gawping at the strange rituals
he's louie theroux with his wry smile at the stepford tennis championship
except louie theroux is annoying
maybe so
but i was pushing for a peepshow quote there
Well in that case
Super Hans got a bass loop for our track that is so good that when he tried turning it off, he physically couldn't do it.
oh well in that case
Super Hans got a bass loop for our track that is so good that when he tried turning it off, he physically couldn't do it
woops, replied to wrong post
IRON MAN?
i know
what a lad.
nothing better than to see his bulbous gerbaly eyes pop out at me underneath a bowl of shredded wheat every saturday.
It's news to me!
Really?
I might e-mail him, but I won't read his column because sport makes me cry. Unless it's running.
He
made me laugh last week by describing how he could't understand how the nation was so fixated with football to the extent that people were fascinated by mid-season transfers, as he put it - just "human resources"
Which one?
Oh, *that* one
Good.
Jesus christ, that's a shit piece of writing
i read it some other
week and it was good and talked about how formula one is shit but this week's was pretty dreadful except the hand tennis revelations. in conclusion, it CAN be a good column and he can be a good writer.
Harry Pearson
Is excellent.
The rest of them are a bit crap though, in all honesty, although the Guardian's sport coverage on the whole is generally top-notch.
Its obviously never recovered from the loss of Niall Quinn as a columnist though... ;-)
I like Barney Ronay
too.
Kevin McCarra is way too verbose for his own good. And I'm literally wetting myself with excitement for the mon/thurs podcast to come back. James and Barry are gods among men.
Harry Pearson
has written a couple of nice books - one about county fairs and the like in the North was excellent, a real feel-good sort of read.
I love The Guardian's sports section but some of the writers are terrible... Michael Henderson especially. And thank fuck that cricket writer who only fairly recently retired has gone elsewhere (telegraph?). He was not a Guardian writer at all.
Martin Kelner is the man.
David Mitchell on sport
is such a waste.
Martin Kelner....
Is my friend's Dad! He is a very funny man
Well
his is the columnist I most look forward to every week. And he is excellent on Fighting Talk too.
David Mitchell is not funny
is it just me that thinks this?
I can see what he aims for in his writing but I just don't think he is intelligent or witty enough to pull it off. I love Mark in Peep Show but everytime I see Mitchell being himself it kills me a bit.
It's rubbish
half the time he just talks about sports he doesn't like and why he doesn't like them. Russell Brand pisses all over him. LITERALLY.