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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
My first 5Live memories consist of Ron Jones and Peter Drury along with Ingham/Green |
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Roddy Forsyth is one of those comms/reporters that take me back to my childhood.
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'86 is a bit before my radio memories begin!
My first 5Live memories consist of Ron Jones and Peter Drury along with Ingham/Green Of course, early Radio 5 commentators like Peter Drury, Rob Hawthorne and Jon Champion are now successful TV commentators, while Ron Jones regularly commentates for Today FM in Ireland. But as for Five Live football commentators from "our youth" (as I guess you're of a similar age to me) who are still with the station, I think you are just looking at Green, Ingham and Forsyth as you mention, plus Simon Brotherton, Ian Brown - who rejoined the station in 1995 - and Dave Woods (who started at the station around the same time Brown returned but was then mostly only used on rugby league). Other than those guys, most of Five Live's current crop of commentators joined the station around the time of (or after) the launch of Five Live Sports Extra, when the amount of weekly commentaries they were doing was significantly increasing. To add to the air of nostalgia over the past page of the thread - my earliest radio football memories chart back to BBC WM's Saturday afternoon Around the Grounds show from the early to mid 90s (BRMB and Beacon held the lions share of West Midland commentary rights back then), and quite a number of those I grew up listening to are still involved today. Paul Franks was in the chair at Pebble Mill back then, and he's still their lead weekend football presenter to this day. Reporters included Richard Wilford, Andrew Dawkins and John Platt who are all still at the station, plus Clive Eakin who's now commentating on neighbouring BBC Coventry & Warwickshire and Nick Clitheroe of Midlands Today. Something I was thinking about the other day - it's interesting how many of BBC WM's sports broadcasters have stayed in the area, while so many of their counterparts from neighbouring commercial stations have gone on to enjoy national success with commercial broadcasters. I've often wondered why this was, as I firmly believe there are a number of BBC broadcasters around here who are more than capable of doing a fine job nationally. Perhaps there is some truth in what they say about the BBC in London having an aversion to Midlands accents. |
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I go all the way back to Peter Thompson on the Scottish Home Service in the fifties and sixties
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Douglas Lowe is another name that rings a slight bell.
I've never heard him, or anything - I imagine *that* Scottish version of RP which is now in an even sharper decline than its model - but I know the name from checking old Radio Times; he used to do England v Scotland matches for the Light Programme, alongside Raymond Glendenning. Then it was David Francey as stated, although Radio 2 used Jock Brown alongside Peter Jones for the 1979 England-Scotland renewal, and David Begg for the 1982 World Cup.
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Something I was thinking about the other day - it's interesting how many of BBC WM's sports broadcasters have stayed in the area, while so many of their counterparts from neighbouring commercial stations have gone on to enjoy national success with commercial broadcasters.
I've often wondered why this was, as I firmly believe there are a number of BBC broadcasters around here who are more than capable of doing a fine job nationally. Perhaps there is some truth in what they say about the BBC in London having an aversion to Midlands accents. |
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I didn't realise Brotherton had been at 5Live since the mid 90's! I thought it was in the last 10 years or so. Ian Brown is one I remember form a while ago.
I remember Drury, Hawthorne and Champion and I was referring to those still with 5Live. |
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To add to the air of nostalgia over the past page of the thread - my earliest radio football memories chart back to BBC WM's Saturday afternoon Around the Grounds show from the early to mid 90s (BRMB and Beacon held the lions share of West Midland commentary rights back then), and quite a number of those I grew up listening to are still involved today.
Paul Franks was in the chair at Pebble Mill back then, and he's still their lead weekend football presenter to this day. Reporters included Richard Wilford, Andrew Dawkins and John Platt who are all still at the station, plus Clive Eakin who's now commentating on neighbouring BBC Coventry & Warwickshire and Nick Clitheroe of Midlands Today. Something I was thinking about the other day - it's interesting how many of BBC WM's sports broadcasters have stayed in the area, while so many of their counterparts from neighbouring commercial stations have gone on to enjoy national success with commercial broadcasters. I've often wondered why this was, as I firmly believe there are a number of BBC broadcasters around here who are more than capable of doing a fine job nationally. Perhaps there is some truth in what they say about the BBC in London having an aversion to Midlands accents. |
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I didn't realise Brotherton had been at 5Live since the mid 90's! I thought it was in the last 10 years or so. Ian Brown is one I remember form a while ago.
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the WABC Wide World of Sport (a name which was basically a piss take)
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I was trying to recall who covered Le Tour before Brotherton and I really can't remember.
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Pat and Pete were good on Beacon, also the WABC Wide World of Sport (a name which was basically a piss take) with The Prof was a good listen. Very much an around the grounds program, only the derby games had commentary. Wolves, Walsall, WBA and Shrewsbury all had dedicated reporters and they used the IRN ones for Villa and Blues as there would be some local interest in them, even though BRMB would be the official station for them. The Prof (Phil? Dixon) would also have his quiz questions going on all afternoon. It was a fairly light hearted show but was always good to listen to.
Round where I live we can't get that great a signal for Beacon, and to be honest WM offered a pretty similar service (including a Saturday quiz) which I was really happy with at the time. In many ways I'd prefer something like that to the wall-to-wall commentaries we get across the FM dial on Saturdays now. I never really ventured away from BBC radio until the turn of the millennium - the advent of talkSPORT changed that for me, I now listen to far more commercial radio than I do BBC radio. |
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Wednesday 5th May - talkSPORT
Mark Saggers presenting Kick-Off: Wednesday Night Football alongside Stan Collymore (from the City of Manchester Stadium) Premier League Fulham v Stoke City - Mike Bovill Manchester City v Tottenham Hotspur - Dom McGuinness and Stan Collymore Scottish Premier League Hearts v Dundee United - Mark Donaldson Tony Carr Testimonial West Ham United v West Ham Academy All Stars - Ian Abrahams Cricket: ICC World Twenty20 Australia v Bangladesh & Afghanistan v South Africa - Jack Bannister |
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Maybe no-one? It never inspired all that much interest in the UK until the Channel 4 coverage came along, and even that was before the great expansion of radio sport.
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Sounds like a good show, the kind I would have enjoyed listening to. Do you remember who was reporting on the Baggies, Wolves, Saddlers and Shrews for them back then?
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Indeed so, but perhaps a glancing reference as part of their general pisstake of American-style broadcasting in reduced circumstances? The WABC name after all was only really adopted so they could reuse jingles from the 1960s New York station of that name, then considered to be maybe the world's best pop station and a massive influence on the offshore stations here (loved it when they pretended it stood for Wolverhampton and Black Country and, better still, Wrekin and Border Communities). And 'Wide World of Sports' (note the plural - 'Sport' in the singular is rarely used in American English) was the title of the US programme that inspired World of Sport, which was going to be called 'Wide World of Sport' until someone pointed out that it wasn't really wide at all.
Beacon was to be called WABC when it launched apparently, but the IBA decided it was too American. |
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Pat and Pete were good on Beacon, also the WABC Wide World of Sport (a name which was basically a piss take) with The Prof was a good listen. Very much an around the grounds program, only the derby games had commentary. Wolves, Walsall, WBA and Shrewsbury all had dedicated reporters and they used the IRN ones for Villa and Blues as there would be some local interest in them, even though BRMB would be the official station for them. The Prof (Phil? Dixon) would also have his quiz questions going on all afternoon. It was a fairly light hearted show but was always good to listen to.
In those days (the eighties), Independent Local Radio had some great sports coverage with (in my opinion) Red Rose Radio, Chiltern Radio and Radio Orwell leading the way. EDIT -> I see that Arthur Pringle has beaten me to some of the above. Whatever happened to Mike Hollis. I last heard of him at Jazz FM. |
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BBC Radio Five Live
Man City v Tottenham Alistair Bruce-Ball, Alan Green and Mark Lawrenson (commentary) Fulham v Stoke David Oates BBC London 94.9 Man City v Tottenham Phil Parry and Clive Walker (commentary) Fulham v Stoke Emma Jones |
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Ali BB is a poor commentator and should not be on such an important game IMO
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I half agree, I don't think he's poor (though he's better on golf than football) but I do think he's well down the pecking order and therefore I'm surprised he got the game given the hype around it, Murray/Brotherton/McNamara or Fletcher should have been with Green in my opinion.
It was mentioned pre-match that Green would be at Chelsea on Sunday. |
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I was trying to recall who covered Le Tour before Brotherton and I really can't remember. Ian Brown was the lead commentator on BBC Radio Wales for a number of years prior to joining 5 live
There may have been a gap, or S Brotherton may have taken over directly. |
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Beacon was to be called WABC when it launched apparently, but the IBA decided it was too American.
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I remember Phil Liggett used to do a round-up report each day back in the 80s on Radio 2, but can't remember when he stopped.
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Yes, they gave it the full "Highs of 23 WABC degrees" when reading the weather.
![]() Did they take Savile's Travels? I know a lot of the early Gold-format stations did, including WGMS Peterborough (officially "World's Greatest Music Station" but really so named so they could reuse a lot of jingles that went from American radio via the offshore stations to Radio 1). |
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Yes, perhaps he carried on into the Radio 5 / early Five Live era. Presumably he was working for Channel 4 and BBC Radio at the same time?
He also used to commentate on BBC TV on the likes of mountain cycling in the late eighties. |
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Ian Brown was the lead commentator on BBC Radio Wales for a number of years prior to joining 5 live
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Did they take Savile's Travels? I know a lot of the early Gold-format stations did, including WGMS Peterborough (officially "World's Greatest Music Station" but really so named so they could reuse a lot of jingles that went from American radio via the offshore stations to Radio 1).
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That would've been Richard Shephard surely? I can definitely remember Ian doing TV commentary on Welsh Cup games in the late 80s/early 90s, and on Cardiff's FA Cup run in 1993/94.
Speaking of Cardiff, I heard a clip a few years back of the winner v Real Madrid, I couldn't make out who was commentating, it sounded like Alun Williams but I thought he only did rugby? |
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