Keep em I say, still good value. Boardman, Boulting & Imlach are always good for entertainment and sneaky asides
I like the “support cast” far more than Waldorf and Statler, who are the Bruce Forsyth of cycling. Liggett can’t even get riders names right, usually he’s an entire bloody generation out. Sherwen uses “and you know” and “in this, the sport of professional cycling” as punctuation in between the groan-inducing cliches.
I grew to despise them during the LA debacle, both are close friends, business partners and basically paid-up henchmen of LA. Liggett was a vociferous denier right up until Oprah asked the questions, and they’ve made a fortune off the back of LA and the dubious Livestrong organisation (paid to give speeches at motivational seminars, which is where Livestrong spent most of its $450m, only spending ~$20m on research). And this when theyre not counting the profits from their (co-owned with LA) African gold mine, which I’m sure is a paragon of human rights, excellent conditions and a workers’ cooperative spirit, and not the embodiment of hateful western exploitation. Sorry, just fell off my soapbox typing….
http://road.cc/content/news/74348-phil-liggett-says-lance-armstrongs-accusers-were-motivated-jealousy
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/othersports/cycling/lancearmstrong/9810988/How-Lance-Armstrongs-dwindling-band-of-backers-reacted-to-his-doping-confession.html
The ITV4 podcast is entertaining; Boulting, Boardman and Rendell have real chemistry, I think B and B are genuine friends (they rode Ventoux together before the racers came through and apparently go running a lot). Imlach is very dry and arch, Boardman is comically direct and quite happy to totally undermine or contradict on-air (which Imlach takes in his stride).