Nothing against Pien Meulensteen per se, I always considered her one of the better 'ground' reporters on Soccer Saturday, but she simply doesn't have the voice to read out the classified results - there's no 'connection between her tone/delivery and what's she reading out.
Most of the time she simply reads out, in banal tones, what she sees on the screen, yesterday she actually read out 'Inverness CT' as it's written.
For me it's pretty much the final nail in the coffin of Soccer Saturday, Simon Thomas makes so many mistakes every single week, and Alan Lambourn's reading of the classified results was the only part of the programme I paid close attention to.
I've tried to find out what has happened to Alan Lambourn but no-one seems to know/no-one is telling, I still think that 95% of the time if a long-time contributor to a programme had died, was ill or had retired they would acknowedge that contributor's absence, but Sky's total silence on that matter strongly suggests to me that they've got rid of Lambourn.
I'm amused by this post on X/Twitter (https://x.com/WomenWhoWow/status/1829926751339708701) which was posted by some organisation who describes itself as 'the PREMIER Mentoring and Coaching Platform for Seriously Driven Women Entrepreneurs!' - the irony of such an organisation posting a photo of Pien and saying "like what you see ?" when the classified reader isn't ever seen, as though her looks are what matters.
Which in truth I suspect is why she got the role, you only have to google her name and it's evident that she's one of these 'fame hungry individuals' who can't do enough to keep in the public eye.
And to people who say why does it matter that she doesn't call the clubs by the full names, it matters because it's representative of the wider dumbing down to appeal to the mass simpletons, rather like how I heard the other week that Kerry Katona doesn't think they should teach geography in schools anymore because they can find it out via the internet or rely on AI.
