Comments on: James Allen hits back

By: tiff

tiff — Sat, 21 Mar 2009 13:15:10 +0000

Yaaaaaaaaaaaaay! Result! The most annoying commentator in F1 TV history is not going to the BBC! Awww. Look on the bright side James, at least now you won’t have the worry of watching TV monitors and talking at the same time, a multitasking feat handled admirably well by Martin Brundle, Mark Blundell, Murray Walker, Damon Hill, Sir Jackie Stewart, James Hunt…….. errr, well, everyone apart from you, apparently….

By: john

john — Fri, 07 Nov 2008 01:51:25 +0000

been watching F1 for couple of years, and never found a problem with james allen, infact i was hoping he would move over to bbc, not just him but the whole team.

intresting reading tho, i must say there are so many haters out there, but then again i can understand how you people feel.

i cant stand that man utd fan clive tildsley now he is a bias english fan..

By: Tom

Tom — Thu, 06 Nov 2008 01:07:03 +0000

one last time james, what do those white stripes mean?

By: edward

edward — Tue, 04 Nov 2008 18:41:16 +0000

i can think of so many people i would like to commentate. allen doesn’t even figure. he’s about as useful a motoring journalist as jeremy clarkson. way out his depth springs to mind.

By: Paige

Paige — Mon, 03 Nov 2008 03:06:31 +0000

I think this sums up James Allen’s career:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8_miIscC-KA

By: Chris Johnson

Chris Johnson — Mon, 03 Nov 2008 01:31:32 +0000

I watched a lot of ITV race broadcasts (via the internet), and anyone who complains about James Allen should be cursed with the US Speed TV crew. Allen is no Murry Walker, but Brundle is no James Hunt, either.

By: danielle

danielle — Mon, 03 Nov 2008 00:46:02 +0000

I think that James was great in fact i think he was so good that i would like to suggest that he come to australia and replace “rusty” and “cam” the commentators/hosts on australian tv. They are the absolute biggest most frustrating incompetents to ever be employed and i would do almost anything to get them off and put someone of james’ experience and reputation on instead. Please please move to sunny australia James!

By: John

John — Sun, 02 Nov 2008 18:01:11 +0000

I actually like James Allen. Perhaps it is because the motorsport commentary I am used to on SpeedTV is quite poor. I think the presentation on ITV has been good and I hope that the coverage on the BBC will at least be of equal quality. No commercials will be nice, but here we get commercials every 5 minutes so that is not a huge gain from my perspective. Anyway, should James Allen not do the coverage for the BBC I will always enjoy his call of Button’s win.

By: FuriousA

FuriousA — Sun, 02 Nov 2008 12:32:26 +0000

At least we dont have to hear him say “…Dives into the pits” ever again. There are so many adjectives to describe a car entering the pit lane, why oh why does it always have to remain the same!

I for one will be wearing my “Stop the ****” t-shirt proudly today, in the hope that in some small way i might have contributed to his commentary career downfall…

By: Alex Cooper

Alex Cooper — Sun, 02 Nov 2008 09:27:11 +0000

Oh and in his early days he always looked that little bit smug…