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ITV's football commentator shrieks the name of anyone who looks like they're shooting.
His tone is usually that of a dog owner who's just spotted Towser dropping a poo in the middle of John Lewis. When he shouts "Giggs!" you half expect him to follow up with "No! Naughty!"
Sometimes, he sounds like he's crying for help.
Tonight, in the 87th minute, he suddenly screamed one word. "Nanny!"
It was obviously all too much for him.
Has football gone soft?
I was asleep on the sofa and he woke me up when he shouted 'Nanny!' like that. The trick is, as you doze off, you have your index finger on the vol button and reduce it to a level compatible with snooze mode. Then your subconscious mind can follow all the action for you. When it's a goal, he shouts so loudly it wakes you up just in time to see the goal and its several replays from different angles. But when they get over-excited like that and wake you up under totally false pretensions, it's a bastard rip-off, no other way to describe it. It's probably a type of Tourettes.
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