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Mon 04 Apr 2007Much Sutch guff from Sky but Keano's Cats no phoniesTV View:Screaming Lord Sutch would have thrived among modern-day sports commentators, not for his zaniness or off-the-wall proclamations - although more of the latter later - but rather for the decibel level at which he delivered his pitch.It seems many soccer commentators are past pupils of the same school for shouting. Volume control is abandoned in favour of shrieking the word "gooaalllll", followed by hyperbole that runs the gamut of A to B from the hyperventilating commentator's lexicon.