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Any time that sometime replies to a statement or answers a question when they've completely missed the point. This happens a lot in football punditry.

Q - that winning goal had more than a hint of offside about it but was the full back playing everyone on when the ball was played?

A - the rules are so clear now that level means onside and the striker is definitely interfering with play.
Apparently this is down to the very brief media "training" a lot of these pundits (or similar) receive. They're basically told to decide in advance what they want to say about any given subject and roll that out regardless of the question, safe in the knowledge that most folk won't even notice they haven't answered the question.

I find it infuriating too, particularly when the question is one I'd actually like some "professional" insight in relation to, rather than the clichéd questions that some presenters rely on. It's got to the point where I'll judge by the presenter and the panel whether it's worth watching the HT/FT analysis.