The Mad Genius of Ray Hudson
We are both late and early on this (since we posted an ode to GOLTV commentator Ray Hudson some months ago, when he aptly captured the enigma that is Riquelme as a “big, beautiful zombie”), but the blog Hudsonia is burning up the soccersphere with a collection of his inimical style in text and audio form.
Of course, sadly, times have changed and Ray’s opportunities to wax about Riquelme have declined.
Nobody idolises Riquelme the way I do. I absolutely worship the ground he walks on, but Pellegrini has seen that cow milked for all of its goodness in Villarreal and the time has come to say goodbye.
Ray Hudson, 8:03 1st
Thankfully, Ray seems to have an endless treasure trove to dip into. Some can’t stand Ray’s pronounced Geordie bombast; and some can’t get enough of his mad ramblings. Increasingly, I fall into the latter category, and the blog explains why.
A tip of the hat to The Offside Rules for pointing me there.
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I think what makes him so appealing (to me, at least) is how unique his style is. There is nobody else outside of radio who uses such colorful descriptions, or lavishes so much attention on individual players. In a world of commentary that is increasingly devoid of personality, Hudson is a madman who remains totally absorbed in the sport, although he might seem the fool for it.
tv commentary, I should have clarified. Live text offers a lot more freedom to embellish, and radio relies on it.
Em, I quite agree. His style is certainly high risk/high reward. At first I couldn’t get over how loud he was, and hyperbolic he seemed.
But then I realised he wasn’t one of those commentators who raise their decibels over nothing — he has a feel for the game, and he’s just desperate to match the poetry of Messi’s feet with his own exclamations.
The fact that it’s coming in a thick Geordie accent on an American soccer channel only adds to the wildness of it all.