I wish his would, whoever he is.
One would HAVE thought that one OF the pre-requisites FOR the job, apart from A knowledge OF the sport would BE the ability to speak proper, LIKE wot I does!
Whilst I am all for diversity and now find the received pronunciation of t.v. presenters of my youth to be equally excruciating on the ears, I find the modern trend, particularly on Channel 5, but the BBC is just as bad, to employ announcers with the most indecypherable and convoluted regional accents.
Having spent many years in the forces, travelling the world and working with folks from all over the world, I like to think that I can understand most people as long as they are speaking my nqative tongue, but some of these announcers seem to have been chosen particularly because they have really 'hard' regional accents.
I seem to recall a study from a few years ago that determined that the Edinburgh accent was the most 'trusted' and easiest to listen to of all the regional variations.
I know I am a softy from the south these days but my linguistic origins are from the very 'flat-vowelled'Manchester and south Lancashire areas but most of that disappeared during my 3 years as an apprentice in the RAF; a great melting pot of cultures, accents and norms.
SWMBO on the other hand can't even understand Jimmy Nail, has no idea what 'Boys from the Black Stuff' was about and althouh she thinks the west country burr is lovely on the ear, she has no idea what they are saying.
Glad it isn't just me then