Sky Sports commentator Ian Crocker embracing the changes in sports media, weighing up the positives and negatives of both the era’s he’s experienced.

The football commentator best known for his four years in 1998-2002 as the voice of Scottish football believes the continuous stories made from the opinions of certain pundits shouldn’t be looked into too much as ‘this is just the way of the world these days.’

With 30 years of experience in commentary, working in the football league for four years alongside Chris Kamara, it’s clear to see why Crocker’s views are so upheld and respected.

Crocker stated: “A lot of what pundits say ends up on newspapers or various media sites, I don’t think I or anyone for that matter should be worried about that.”

“The fact is if you are employed as a pundit, you’ve got something to say and people are going to pick up on it and I can’t imagine any of the pundits would have an issue with it at all.”

“There’s so much space to fill on social media that I think it’s inevitable that you’ll get stories based off of what people have said rather than something big that’s happened.”

The transitional period he and many other commentators or pundits have experienced over the last 10 years or so has left many questioning the effects it’s had on the old way of doing things.

“The one drawback is I think it’s been hard for newspapers, I used to love reading them but I must admit even I’ve started buying them a lot less.”

Ian admits even he when he has time to kill before games has a scroll through twitter because to his amazement “There’s just so much stuff on there.”

“This is just where we are now and social media is massive and I think it’s great that people can mix on Twitter and Instagram.”

“Yeah, you might get a few bad replies but I think that’s all part of it, if you don’t want to be on there then don’t be on there.”

Jokingly he added: “having experienced both era’s I quite liked the way things were back in the day, but now everything’s at your finger tips and that’s just the way of the world.”

Crocker like many is just going with the times and is embracing change, which I’m sure we are going to see plenty more of in the sport’s online media world in the near future.