Sunday 2nd May - Beacon 97.2FM (Black Country)/Mercia/Gold 1152AM (Birmingham)

Tom Ross presenting The Goalzone from The Hawthorns

Championship
Coventry City v Watford - Joe Holt and Dave Bennett (Mercia commentary)
West Bromwich Albion v Barnsley - Tom Ross and Tony Brown (Beacon and Gold commentary)


Tony "Bomber" Brown, West Brom's all-time leading goalscorer, will be presenting the Baggies players with their promotion medals after today's game.

I got my sums wrong!

Academically though, had Everton won yesterday and were Liverpool to lose today; and then Spurs beat Manchester City on Wednesday, it would have been interesting to find out if Five Live and talkSPORT could trade the Spurs and City second picks for Liverpool and Everton. It is an interesting point and one that could become a factor in future seasons.

As it stands, it could possibly be quite a boring final day of the Premier League season should title, Champions League, Europa League and relegation issues all be sorted out if results go a certain way.

Sunday 2nd May - talkSPORT

Football First on Sunday with Ian Danter, Alvin Martin (from Hillsborough) and Ray Houghton (from Anfield), followed by Football First Extra with Adrian Durham and Bobby Gould (from the Stadium of Light)

Premier League
Liverpool v Chelsea - Dom McGuinness and Ray Houghton
Fulham v West Ham United - Ian Abrahams
Sunderland v Manchester United - Graham Courtney and Bobby Gould

Championship
Blackpool v Bristol City - Simon Humphreys
Coventry City v Watford - Dave Rowe
Derby County v Cardiff City - Kev Lawrence
Ipswich Town v Sheffield United - Grahame Lloyd
Leicester City v Middlesbrough - Geoff Peters
Queens Park Rangers v Newcastle United - Tony Incenzo
Reading v Preston North End - Andy Clarke
Sheffield Wednesday v Crystal Palace - John Temple and Alvin Martin
Swansea City v Doncaster Rovers - Roger Hughes
West Bromwich Albion v Barnsley - Dan Freeman

Cricket: ICC World Twenty20
India v South Africa & Australia v Pakistan - Jack Bannister

Rugby Union: Heineken Cup Semi Final
Biarritz v Munster - Simon Ward

Sunday 2nd May 2010

BBC Lancashire - Host: Gary Hickson from Bloomfield Road
Blackpool v Bristol City: Ian Chisnall & Andy Morrell (FM/DAB Commentary)
Reading v Preston: Phil Cunliffe & Steve Cowell (Updates)
Lancashire v Glamorgan Cricket: Scott Reid & Andy Hayhurst (855AM/Online Commentary)

BBC Lancashire would normally go with commentary of the away team but obviously a big game for Blackpool on the final day trying to seal a play off place.

BBC Merseyside
Liverpool v Chelsea: Mike Hughes & Jimmy Case

City Sport
Liverpool v Chelsea: Steve Hothersall & Jan Molby

Drogba crying on the floor inside 5 minutes. Jan says "if I was a centre half I'd just give Drogba a good kicking, cause he'll go down anyway, just put the boot into him!"

Sunday 2nd May - BBC WM

Daz Hale presenting WM Sport from The Mailbox

Championship
West Bromwich Albion v Barnsley - Tom Marlow


It's a three hour music and updates show this afternoon, with a phone-in in the final hour.

To close out the season, WM are doing commentary on Villa's youth team in their FA Youth Cup Final Second Leg at Chelsea on Tuesday and Walsall v MK Dons on Saturday.

I guess they'll do commentary on one of the Birmingham clubs on FM next Sunday (it surely would have been Villa before their UCL hopes were ended yesterday), as it will allow them to put the other team's commentary on DAB in Birmingham with Wolves on DAB in Wolverhampton.

5 Live

Liverpool v Chelsea Mike Ingham, Mark Lawrenson & Alan Green
Sunderland v Man Utd Ian Dennis, Chris Waddle & John Murray
Fulham v West Ham Jacqui Oatley

Blackpool v Bristol City Ian Brown
Sheff Wed v C Palace Peter Slater (Nigel Adderley & Craig Hignett on Sports Extra)
Swansea v Doncaster Andy Gillies

On Football First Extra today, Adrian was joined by Ray Houghton, who stayed on at Anfield to do the first hour, and then Chris Davies (the Telegraph journalist who is usually Jeremy Kyle's Sunday co-host) from 5-7pm.

Also, I should stop guessing at these cricket reporters. This afternoon's newsreader Ian Beach (the Today FM commentator) did studio-based reports on India v South Africa, although as stated Big Jack B is covering Australia v Pakistan.

EDIT: Confirmation on talkSPORT just now (7.30pm) that Manchester United v Stoke City will be the commentary game next Sunday.

# 2-0 down, Who gives a f**k, cos Cardiff City are going up #

BBC Radio Wales

Jackland HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA V Doncaster Rovers - Steve James (host) Iain Gwyn Hughes and Ian Walsh (SW FM / AM)
Derby County V Cardiff City - Rob Phillips and Kevin Ratcliffe (SE FM / Digital TV/Radio)
Blackpool V Bristol City - Ian Brown (different reports to Five Live)
Lancashire V Glamorgan (Clydesdale Bank 40 Cricket) - Nick Webb (updates, but commentary with him, Edward Bevan and the ex Cricketer Steve James on AM after 3:30pm)
Spanish Open Golf, Seville - Nick Dye

BBC Bristol

Blackpool V Bristol City - Richard Hoskin and Adam Baker

Caroline something was the host on 5LSX.

Caroline Barker

BBC Radio Cymru

Jackland HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA V Doncaster Rovers - Dylan Ebenezer (hosting) with Osian Roberts for build up, and occasional use during commentary. Gareth Blainey and Meilir Owen commentators.
Derby County V Cardiff City - Dylan Griffiths and Iwan Roberts
Blackpool V Bristol City - Dafydd Roberts

Bank Holiday Monday 3rd May 2010

BBC Manchester
Wigan v Hull: Ian Cheeseman & Paul Rowley (1:30pm Commentary)

BBC Three Counties Radio
Luton v York Ewen Duncan and Ian Pearce (commentary)


BBC Oxford
Oxford United v Rushden and Diamonds Nathan Cooper, Jerome Sale, Nick Harris (delayed returning from the MotoGP in Spain) and Peter Rhoades-Brown (commentary)

talkSPORT

Premier League
Blackburn v Arsenal - Simon Humphreys
Wigan v Hull - John Temple

World Twenty20, Guyana
West Indies v England - Jack Bannister

Starting with yesterday.

BBC Radio Sheffield and BCI
host: Paul Walker
Ipswich Town verses Sheffield United (AM and DAB)
commentator: Andy Giddings
summariser: Keith Edwards

(FM and BBCI)
Sheffield Wednesday verses Crystal Palace
commentator: Paul Walker
summariser: Paul Sturrock
reporter: Seth Bennett
Swansea City verses Doncaster Rovers
reporter: Rob Staton
West Bromwich Albion
reporter: Adam Oxley


Onto today...

BBC Radio Humberside
Wigan Athletic verses Hull City
host: David Burns
commentators: Mike White and David Burns
summariser: Peter Swann

BBC Radio York
host: Sharan Shortle
Luton Town verses York City (FM and online)
commentator: Al Ross
summariser: Chris Jones
York rugby league was on AM and also available online.

Despite not broadcasting any live commentaries between the Hull and Arsenal matches, 5 Live didn't bother to cover the BSP play-off matches. They opted to put more boring talk on instead.

That is completely incorrect. They had Simon Mann at Kenilworth Rd (not sure if anyone was at Oxford).

They have full commentary on the B'burn game on now. Their schedule also had Wigan game down but I wasn't around to hear that.

BBC Radio Five Live
Host Russell Fuller
Wigan v Hull Simon Brotherton, Conor McNamara and Kevin Gallagher (commentary)
Blackburn v Arsenal David Oates, Darren Fletcher and Phil Neville (commentary)
Luton v York Simon Mann (although I noted Steve May originally)
Oxford United v Rushden and Diamonds Jonathan Beck
Arsenal Ladies v Everton Ladies (FA Womens Cup Final at the City Ground, Nottingham) Alistair Bruce-Ball

Monday 3rd May - BBC Five Live Sports Extra

FA Women's Cup Final
Arsenal Ladies v Everton Ladies - Jacqui Oatley and Steve Froggatt (commentary)

I don't think they had a separate presenter from the commentary team.


I only caught a little bit of their coverage on Sports Extra, I tuned in momentarily after the 90 minutes were up, at which point Jacqui was chatting about how she'd said to a fan before the game that she felt it would be 2-2 on 90 minutes, with Everton winning 3-2 after extra time. Bet she regrets not putting a bet on now!



Additionally, Andrew McKenna was doing studio-based reports on the earlier Sri Lanka v Zimbabwe fixture in the World Twenty20 cricket.

A few days into the tournament and the pattern seems to be that the afternoon sports newsreaders also get to report on the day's earlier game, with regular cricket correspondent Jack Bannister taking up the reigns for the later game. The only exception being on Friday when Jack did both games, when each took place in the evening.

For anyone wondering, talkSPORT's reports on the football and cricket came during what was effectively their normal weekday schedule. Seems like Bank Holiday Monday doesn't apply if you work as a presenter at talkSPORT Towers.

Mark Chapman will present this Saturday's 5Live Sport, comm on B'pool vs Forest and then at 3, coverage of L1/L2 final games, no commentary announced yet but I'd put my life savings on them being at Elland Road. Then, Steve Claridge is on 606, oh dear God.

Mark Pougatch is doing Sunday's program with F1 instead of the CCC PO and then at 4, Chelsea vs Wigan. Alan Green is doing 606 on Sunday.

Tuesday 4th May - talkSPORT

Mark Saggers presenting Kick-Off: Tuesday Night Football alongside Stan Collymore

Scottish Premier League
Celtic v Rangers - Mark Donaldson

Cricket: World Twenty20
New Zealand v Zimbabwe - Andrew McKenna
England v Ireland - Jack Bannister



BBC WM

Mark Regan presenting The Football Phone-In from The Mailbox, followed by Dan Wheeler with WM Sport from Stamford Bridge

FA Youth Cup Final Second Leg
Chelsea Youth v Aston Villa Youth - Rob Gurney and Dan Wheeler (commentary)


Elsewhere, after the sacking of Coventry City manager Chris Coleman last night, Tom Ross and Dave Bennett presented a Sports Bar: Sky Blues Special on Gold across the Midlands between 6-7pm, with the first half hour being networked onto Mercia as well.

BBC Radio Scotland, 4/5/10

Richard Gordon presenting Sportsound, live from Celtic Park, with Jim Traynor.

Celtic v Rangers - David Begg, Murdo MacLeod and Billy Dodds (commentary) with Chick Young pitchside

Five Live

Celtic v Rangers - Roddy Forsyth (0-22), Connor McNamara (22-45) and Pat Nevin (commentary)

Andy Gillies on the touchline as well for 5 Live.

Roddy Forsyth is one of those comms/reporters that take me back to my childhood.

There's probably only him and Green/Ingham that are around from my early radio listening days

Aye Roddy has been there since 1986 I think. There was a fella called David Francey before him, he had a good turn of phrase too. I think Mike Ingham used to cover the Scotland games with him

I go all the way back to Peter Thompson on the Scottish Home Service in the fifties and sixties although later there was a gentleman called Derek Rae on BBC Radio Scotland. There was Bob Crampsey as well, although he may have been on Radio Clyde in the seventies. Douglas Lowe is another name that rings a slight bell.