BBC1, 2.30pm
Big rugby day after France beat Wales last night. Let's hope they keep the analysts to a minimum today. It's one thing "throwing" to a touchline analyst to give the opposition's point of view, but at one point during last night's game, there were four voices offering their opinions within a minute: the commentator Nick Mullins(?), co-commentator Jonathan Davies, Hair Bear Bunch leader Colin Charvis and former French captain Rafael Ibanez. Too many talking c**ks spoil the commentary.
Was Ibanez's mic left on or did the BBC experiment with three commentators for 10 minutes in the first half? It was too confusing, especially when one of them doesn't speak English very well – Jonathan "Jiffy" Davies. His handling of French names is even worse. How many times has he heard his fellow presenters correctly pronouncing Yannick Jauzion's name in the past eight years? Yet he still calls him "Jwajwan" (although he did offer us Jojwan and Jawjwan yesterday in an effort to get it right).
This is called Boswinger's Disease, after every football pundit's inability to pronounce Chelsea right back Jose Bosingwa's name correctly.
Incidentally, I think that Austin Healey's reference to French centre Mathieu Bastareaud as "Bastardo" was not Boswinger's Disease but a touch of devilment...
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