Much as it pleases me to see Everton winning again in Europe last night (even after such a poor performance) and much as it pleases me to see so many of their UEFA Cup games being shown on terrestrial telly, so I don’t have to hunt around the internet for a stream, I do wish that someone at Channel 5 would have a quiet word with co-commentator Kevin Ratcliffe, on the subject of Mr Philip Jagielka.
Kev: you were a fine Everton player, but please, please, please could you learn how to say the Everton defender’s surname. With the rise of P2P streaming, I’ve been able to watch a lot of live Everton games this year, and no one else seems to have a problem with it: the guys on the Premiership feeds that go off to TrueSports manage to say it properly; the hilariously awful bloke on the Fox Soccer Channel manages it ok; Dave Woods, who is sitting next to you in the commentary box manages ok; hell even the Chinese commentators that I have to listen to when I can’t find an English language stream manage it ok…
C’mon Kev, it’s not hard–say it with me: his name is pronounced almost the way it is spelt. It’s JAG-EE-EL-KA. His name is not, and never has been: JUDGE-GEL-KA. Easy…