For thinking Andrew Castle is a knob?

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https://www.theguardian.com/media/2025/jul/09/bbc-commentator-andrew-castle-sorry-us-footballer-trinity-rodman-name-wrong?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other

Why can't he get Trinity Rodman's name right? Is he saying it wrong on purpose?

He claimed it was a mispronounciation. It's a totally different name. And she's probably better known than Shelton, she's an amazing footballer. And her estranged dad shouldn't even have been mentioned...I thought her response was very measured, considering.

He is so embarrassing. I was yelling at the TV. Good for her responding the way she did.

No, I've always thought he was a knob. Perfectly reasonable.

I thought it was a well known fact he is totally insufferable

I don’t even know the incident you’re talking about but I’ve always felt this way about him!

Thank the good Lord that I'm not the only one.
The bloke is a total tosser..prattling on about bugger all in his anal banal way and making childish jokes.

Agree. He ruins tennis commentary with his inane prattle.

Honestly, I have never been able to understand how people like him have managed to rise up the ranks. It's like Ben Shepherd. They're both so dull.

AC is a fuckwit of the highest order

Why he is still commentating is a mystery !

Absolute knob of the first order. He's a terrible commentator, talks continuous shite, and doesn't know how to use a microphone.
Why he is employed by the BBC is up there with the Bermuda Triangle as a Great Mystery of Our Time.
I can't stand him.

He’s all that’s wrong with tennis. A middle class knob. He used to be on lbc occasionally, came across as really not that intelligent.

I remember doing a junior school project in which I tried to explain the Bermuda triangle thing as being due to increased magnetism in the earth's core at that location. It made sense to 8 year old me.

I cannot explain Andrew Castle's commentating career at all.

He's always been a twat, and I've never understood why he keeps getting employed. Everyone seems to hate him, even my very mild-mannered dad who rarely expresses dislike of anyone!

Being snide to McEnroe the other day too. AC said that back in the day players only complained about line judges when they lost. If I was McEnroe I would have said "So that's every match for you, right?"

He's a dickhead. LBC got rid of him. Time the BBC did too.

He's always been a knob.

He was a shit tennis player and is now a shit commentator.

This 100%

Agreed, I've always found Castle such a bimbo.

Just glad John Inverdale isn't on much now, I remember him going on about Marion Bartoli's looks not being to his taste. What a knob.

They need Lee MacKenzie on more, I love her.

I find McEnroe insufferable as well. He is knowledgeable but a bore.

This is still my favourite name correction video:

Amadou Onana

Not André, who plays for Man Utd.

Urgh what a tosser. That wasn't a mispronunciation, it was the wrong name. Why is this twat still commentating?

Trinity was measured and eloquent in her response.

Amadou plays for my team. We love him, and that was a great shut down. He even got a t shirt made. So rude of them, they come from different countries, play in different positions and don't look alike.

That's Not My Name

Are...You...Calling...Me...Tiffany?

Can't stand him. Never had. He boils my piss as a commentator as he talks rot. I remember when Murray lost in a semi final at Wimbledon and he said Murray would never amount to anything, his time was over and it was time to start putting energy into other players. He won Wimbledon like 2 years later, after losing in the final the year before. Idiot