Peter Wong

Who is Peter Wong?

Peter Hing-kwei Wong is a sports commentator in Hong Kong. He has also worked in ESPN in Singapore, and hosts a wide variety of Cantonese sports programmes, including football, basketball, baseball, American football, tennis and boxing.

He is famous for his odd catchphrases during programmes, such as

- "There are only two possibilities for penalty: it's either going to go in or not."

- Who're the best friends of goalkeepers in the match? Of course the posts and the bars are!".

- Which team scores first in this match has a greater chance to win the match.

- Gary Neville has 3 weaknesses: no pace, running slow, not fast enough.

- This match can be put in the fridge now. (meaning the result is unlikely to change)

Such catchphrases are often use by other Cantonese-speaking sports commentators. He is a very controversial football commentator in Hong Kong, many find his commentating style being senseless but he has also many supporters thinking he is very entertaining. His catchphases and quotes in his shows has once been quoted in an email on the internet, named "101 golden football quotes of Peter Wong", which was then widely circulated.