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Problem with that though is they cant really offer any level of insight...might as well just start employing fans.
I've never really understood this argument to be honest. Although theyve generally got better over the last few years, the vast majority of the ex-pros offer virtually no insight whatsoever. Other than having the odd anecdote about a certain manager or ex team mate, half of them really don't say anything that goes much beyond clichés.
In particular dinosaurs like they have on sky know no more what it's like to be a player in the modern era than you or I do. Being a PL player nowadays is a completely different thing to what it was like in the 80s
Obviously not saying journos are all perfect, but at least a few of them offer far better analysis than many of the ex-pros do. They've got where they are because they're good at analysing games and stringing a decent sentence together rather than because they happen to have been a half decent player or whatever.