From said page;

[iWarrington are Hemmings' pet team.[/i

I think he is alright except for when Wigan are playing. Then he becomes the most annoying and biased clown EVER.

As I've said before, Clarke used to be OK with us (he probably thought along the same lines as Lindsay "they're a nice little club"icon_wink.gif, he'd give us praise when needs be, and was, on the whole, quite complimentary 90% of the time. Now we've become a threat to his beloved Wigan, his attitude to us has changed over that last couple of years.
Clarke does himself no favours, with his obvious pro Wigan bias. You don't hear it (much) from O'connor and McDermott, who were both ex-Wigan players ....in fact, they're reasonably objective about Wigan, but Clarke's attitude to Wigan makes the Hansen/Lawrenson love-in to all things Liverpool, seem non-existant.

Yes, Clarke was (on the whole) complimentary to us on Friday, but I think some posters on here are getting a touch paranoid about it all, now.

Final Clarke point (for now), why the #### did he do that piece infront of the South Stand on Friday night, when he knew he would get a reaction from the South Stand...just stupid...nearly as stupid as the ends of bells that were allegedly chucking stuff at him.....nobs.

Oh, and to call Hemmings a Warrington fan, is quite frankly, ridiculous.
I've known Hemmings for about 8 years now, and he's never had a good word (even through gritted teeth) to say to me, about the Wire.

As we all know (well, the ones of us without our heads buried in the sand), Hemmings is a Widnes fan...END OF.
His pet SL team (when the Comics haven't been in SL) has been Stains. We can all tell it in the tone (and vocabulary) of his commentaries, and pre and post match analysis.

Since our CC win 2 years ago, Hemmings and Stephenson have been (deservedly) very complimentary to us, as you'd expect. Compare this to a few back, when, if we were on Sky and we'd won, they'd grudgingly praise us. But if we'd lost...wew, they wouldn't half lay into us.
That's what happens when teams start to transfer good form to trophies...commentators like to engratiate themselves to successful sides...it gets them more interview time etc.

Phil Clarke is a Wigan fan, so is always going to be biased. However, he is not anti anyone else, and his analysis is top drawer.
Get over it and stop whining, for once.

Did you miss this from earlier in the thread

I agree with this, he used the crowd to make a good point about how fickle and short sighted some of our fans can be. It became popular to boo King when obviously there were other factors going on affecting the whole team. It's now popular to boo Clarke, despite him often saying very complimentary things about us.

And yes, throwing stuff at him is completely unacceptable. Ironically, it his supposed bias that is a problem, yet the bias against him is even stronger!

It's not that I missed it, I didn't

I just thought it was (obviously) inflammatory, as we were always going to get the "Clarkey is a @#%&er" chant, and made the club's fans look like nobs (of which there are more than a few, unfortunately) . Someone at Sky should have had a word with Clarke, and told him to do his piece elsewhere. This was "pouring petrol on the fire".

We all know every club has some fickle fans (ffs, there were even some boos which could be heard at half time v Stains the other week).

Personally I use the x30 forward button when his mug appears on the screen. His 'opinions' are usually ludicrous like at MM, when he came up with a statement about faster diagnosis of injured players and their removal from the pitch to get the game restarted. Since then I've not had any interest in what he has to say. If he's biased towards Wigan, so what? It'll make it taste all the sweeter when we turn them over (again).

But if Clarke had done his interview on another part of the pitch you know as well as I do that some of the kn*b heads would have claimed it as a victory in that Clarke was frightened to "face" the fans.
In any game there will be a remark from one of the commentators / summarisers that a "fan" will take exception to if they so desire.
What happens is that they forget the other positive comments made during the game.

no they wouldn't Rogues...no-one would have given it a second thought.

I can just imagine it, your average "fan" on the South Stand, saying to his mate "HOW DARE THAT @@@@'ED CLARKE NOT DO AN INTERVIEW INFRONT OF US, SO WE CAN'T ABUSE HIM"

It was inflammatory

I'm surprised we didn't get the usual Sky appology "We're sorry for the chanting, which may have upset some viewers, which you may have heard during Phil's piece" from Eddie

Phil Clarke - legendary player, legendary commentator.

legendary twitterer.

Of course, how could I forget!

surely you've used a wrong vowel, and too many letters there, Morleys...namely t e r e and r , if you're refering to Clarke

Knowing the south stand, there could have been another clarke they were aiming their abusive chants at.