tigerhart

I'm indeed gratified that there are so many like-minded people when it comes to Millard's mangling of the language - or what little grasp he has of it - at GPs. I must confess I didn't catch the Colin for Kelvin . . . but then I don't get SkySportsXtra, so was up at 3am to catch the Thrilla In Mallila on Sky Sports 3, so may not have been fully awake. I used to think it was just me who was reduced to cowering in the corner chewing my fingernails . . . But the big puzzle is: Why does Sky keep him on? I think I'll have some SACK MILLARD! badges and T-shirts made.

Would anyone like to join me in starting a movement to get the appallingly vocabularyly challenged Tony Millard removed from the rota of GP commentators? He is, and has been for some time, an acute embarrassment - which is the kindest thing I can say about him. He ruins for me every GP at which he commentates. Now, I've done a bit of commentating myself, so I know it's not easy, but this bumbling buffoon peppers his commentaries with well-worn cliches, but he does not have the endearing eccentricities of a Murray Walker to make them enduarble. He trots out things such as: 'The starting marshall moves away . . '. when we can see that he is, but he does it nearly every race. 'Wheel perfect . . . that man . . . pillar to post . . . the battle is joined . . . and, god help us, we all know that Leigh Adams comes from Mildura and is goodness knows how many times Australian Champion. Millard just won't stop talking, believing that repeating the name of a rider is good commentating - oh, another of his threatbare sayings is: 'disappointment for . . . ' when someone has just finished last. At the Mallilla GP he did not even know which year it was that Phil Crump had been on the World Final rostrum, and then he got it wrong. Crump was third in 1976, not second. Unforgiveable! I know some of Millard's colleagues consider him a . . . well, if I say I might get banned from the Forum. I wonder if there are any others who feel the same as I do. Actually I'd like to get him on a charge of bringing speedway into disrepute. Telling people that speedway machines have no brakes and no gears (the sport is nearly 80 years old, for heaven's sake) is like telling people cricket is played with a wooden bat and a leather ball. And we could, while were about it, get Steve Brandon and Sophie Blake onto a training course to learn how to interview.