Colin Welland has died

[Satchmo Distel]

As stated above, the safe objection to Waring is that he was a shit commentator whom the BBC stuck with because it had contempt for the audience. Welland was throwing stones in a glass house by accusing Waring of being a professional northerner.

OTOH Waring's reaction to the Don Fox miss was sincere, passionate and empathetic and I'm not sure anyone could have done that better.

Waring on It's A Knockout is another matter, not just because that brand is now irrevocably paedo tarnished but because it was end of the pier stuff not befitting a sports commentator.

[Evariste Euler Gauss]

Sorry for being a bit dim, but what's the main point we're supposed to draw from that Eddie Waring at Everton footage?

[Sporting]

Sorry for being a bit dim, but what's the main point we're supposed to draw from that Eddie Waring at Everton footage?

Nothinģ. Maybe the obscurity of the Everton coach.

[Evariste Euler Gauss]

Ah, that's a relief. From the way you'd posted the clip together with the "why did he hate Eddie Waring?" quote from JW, I was trying to find something in the Everton clip that would shed light on Colin W's dislike of Waring. Like, I dunno, the interview being so lame that Welland would have been incensed about the lack of more probing questions from Waring to the Everton big cheese maybe.

[Tony C]

Ah, that's a relief. From the way you'd posted the clip together with the "why did he hate Eddie Waring?" quote from JW, I was trying to find something in the Everton clip that would shed light on Colin W's dislike of Waring. Like, I dunno, the interview being so lame that Welland would have been incensed about the lack of more probing questions from Waring to the Everton big cheese maybe.

I would personally go for Welland’s dislike of Waring’s ‘professional northerner’ schtick (and I call it that in the belief that Waring really played up to it) as being the source of his disdain. As a young man I - and many like me - were ultra sensitive to north-south divide issues and Waring was treated with broad scorn as the cartoon ‘by ‘eck’ figure so easy for the RP Home Counties types to point at as a figure of typical northern stupidity. In truth I’m only marginally less sensitive about this stuff now.

[Janik]

Put me down as another who saw this thread and thought "Oh, he has died, what a shame" and then on reading it discovering that Welland has been dead for years and I wasn't aware.