It's fun, because he's so biased but is supposed to be neutral, also it is a valid way to wind up pies,

Why do pie fans feel like they need to defend him? if he's a neutral pundit then why would they care who criticises him?
Because he spouts about wigan all the time, even when they aren't playing wigan fans love him, he blows smoke up your backsides constantly...

He's not from wigan, he's from bolton, bit like saying that the tomkins are good wigan lads, they're not, they're from elsewhere, elsewhere = BAD, remember?

It's a fair comment from Cupid Stunt though. Clarke is biased towards Wigan. So what?

We've got our own on Sky in Paul Cullen, and the funniest thing about that is I imagine his blatant Warrington bias winds up the fans of his current employers far more than Phil Clarke does our head in.

Stick him on Wigan t.v then. Imo on a national broadcaster covering every team of the superleague an even balanced view of games and teams should be given by commentators. With Wigan being one of the better teams in the league they will get more positive comments but Clarke is so over the top it's ridiculous and the comment about maguire was a disgrace. Just for balance, i think Hemmings is slightly the other way, i always get the feeling that he is routing for Wigan's opposition whether that is just trying to readdress the inbalance of Clarkes comments, i'm not sure.

John Senior trying to deny the laws of physics and the possibility that "momentum" could even exist (never mind on a Rugby field) were simply the finest moments of entertainment ever offered by RLFans. Including his experiments running around his office throwing pillows in to bins.

Isn't he Lord Mourinho or something now?

It's because of his magnetic charisma, he has the same quality as guys like Bono and Barack Obama, even people that don't like him can't help but be drawn in by his masculinity and charm.

Senior is perfectly within his right to say what he feels is the truth only Mcguire knows if he is trying to cheat although at the time I thought that he was injured and the pull on Carmont I think it was a reflex action as he falling you see him struggling and looks in pain and RL is a sport in which you don't fake injuries many players play through the pain barrier he was at full pelt and goes to make the tackle and does his ligaments which hurts to say he deserved a potentially career ending injury is OUT OF ORDER!!

Clarke should be embaressed about what he said but he seems to have no shame

LGJM

Thought so.

Anyway, let Phil Clarke get on with being Phil Clarke. I'm starting to not even notice he is there as whenever I supposedly see or hear him, I can just block him out in a cachophony of crowd noise.

It's because there's no one else on TV quite Like him...(well Stuart Barnes rivals him in the horrible turd stakes)..

Can you imagine the same scenario on the gillette soccer saturday ?
with Phil Thompson, Charlie Nicholas, and Gordon McQueen all spouting biased Drivel...and they are specifically given matches of their former clubs to commentate on to show their allegiance when a goal is scored, but they still manage to give a balanced view on the opposition.

If Clarke did a superleague version it would go like

Jeff Stelling - "so Phil ......Wigan versus Leeds, into the last five minutes hows it going ?"


Phil Clarke - "ohhhh Jeff its all Wigan, as it has been all Game, Sam Tomkins has just come close, he's been a thorn in the Leeds side all afternoon, they'll be glad to see the back of him today. Brett Finch has been spraying majestic passes from one side of the pitch to the other Causing the leeds defence no end of trouble....and Josh Charnley has almost finished off a move that would have surely been try of the season had he not knocked on with the line in front of him.........................but still no sign of a wigan try and its still Leeds riding their luck and leading 54 Nil"

Jeff Stelling - "you nob"

I liked phil clarke much more when i was pretending to be him on twitter.

that is comedy genius,i've just spat all my lager over my pc


what makes it even funnier is that i can actually imagine clarke in this exact scenario,i used to respect him prior to his sky involvement.
i would love to ask him what he did that was so wrong that it made the rugby gods so mad that they decided that it should end his career

it must have been a far worse offense than danny mcguires must it not as danny has played since

Funny post!



I think Phil Thompson takes it to a new level though, remember when Riise I think scored that own goal in the Champions League? If Phil Clarke had a similar reaction like that in the final minutes of a GF defeat to Wire then Warrington would be flooded with p!ss.

Clarke just goes silent when Wigan get dicked, then comes up with a stupid comment like.

"This can only be good for Wigan Eddeh"

Don't you mean Ghadaffi and Saddam.(sp)