BBC Radio Five Live

Portsmouth v Liverpool David Oates and Matt Jackson (commentary)
Aston Villa v Stoke City Pat Murphy
Blackburn v Tottenham Darren Fletcher
Fulham v Manchester United John Murray and Pat Nevin (commentary)
Manchester City v Sunderland Mark Pougatch (host) and Alistair Yeomans
Blackpool v WBA Peter Slater (postponed)
Bristol City v Reading Hamish Marshall (as BBCtv Final Score)
Peterborough v Watford Mike Sewell
QPR v Sheffield United George Riley
Sheffield Wednesday v Swansea City Harry Gration (as BBCtv Final Score)
Leeds v Southampton Juliette Ferrington
Rochdale v Shrewsbury Peter Slater


IRN

Portsmouth v Liverpool Andrew Cheal
Aston Villa v Stoke Clive Edwards
Blackburn v Tottenham Peter Smith
Fulham v Man Utd Kevin Hatchard
Man City Sunderland Darren Stannage

RTE Radio One

Portsmouth v Liverpool Daniel Freeman
Aston Villa v Stoke Phil Lawton
Fulham v Man Utd Paul Ashton
Blackburn v Tottenham Peter Smith
Man City v Sunderland Darren Stannage


BBC London 94.9

Blackburn v Tottenham Phil Parry and Clive Walker (FM commentary)
Fulham v Man Utd Emma Jones
Crystal Palace v Barnsley Alan Seabrook
Peterborough v Watford Barry Swain
QPR v Sheff Wed Jamie Hill
Charlton v Millwall Kevin Hand and Bradley Allen (DAB commentary) with Andrea Warth
Walsall v Leyton Orient Dave Victor
MK Dons v Brentford Billy Reeves

Saturday 19th December 2009

BBC Merseyside - Host: Mike Hughes
Portsmouth v Liverpool: Ian Kennedy & Jimmy Case (12:45pm Commentary)
Tranmere v Bristol Rovers: Derek Jones (3pm Commentary from about 3:20pm)

City Sport
Portsmouth v Liverpool: Steve Hothersall & John Aldridge (12:45pm Commentary)
(3pm-6pm Terrace Talk with Phil Cooper, Ian St John & Derek Mountfield)
Tranmere v Bristol Rovers: Toby Gillies (3pm Updates)

BBC Lancashire - Host: Gary Hickson
Blackburn v Tottenham: Phil Cunliffe & Jason Wilcox (3pm Commentary)
Notts Forest v Preston: Andy Bayes & Steve Cowell (5:20pm Commentary)

BBC Manchester - Host: Jimmy Wagg
Man City v Sunderland: Ian Cheeseman & Nigel Gleghorn (Commentary)
Fulham v Man Utd: Steve Wyeth (Updates)
Gillingham v Stockport: Andrew Hawes (Updates)
Wycombe v Oldham: Drew Savage (Updates)
Rochdale v Shrewsbury: Jack Dearden (Updates)

Key 103/Magic 1152 AM - Total Football
Fulham v Man Utd: Hugh Ferris & Mickey Thomas (Key 103 Commentary)
Man City v Sunderland: Stuart Arrowsmith & Andy Hinchcliffe (Magic 1152 Commentary)
(5pm - 6pm Phone In with Matt Haslam, Mickey Thomas & Andy Hinchcliffe)

BBC Radio Five Live

Arsenal v Hull (1730) Conor McNamara and Nigel Adderley (commentary) Graham Taylor held up in a traffic jam on the M1.
Nottingham Forest v Preston North End (1720) Steve May


IRN

Arsenal v Hull Nigel Bidmead


BBC London 94.9

Arsenal v Hull Chris Latcham

BBC Radio Leeds
studio: Nick Hatton

Norwich City verses Huddersfield Town (92.4, 95.3 and 102.7 FM)
commentator: Paul Ogdon
Summariser: Mel Booth

Leeds United verses Southampton (103.9 FM, AM and DAB)
coverage: Adam Pope and Andy Ritchie


Yorkshire Radio (DAB) and Minster FM
Leeds United verses Southampton
host: Richard Stead
commentator: Thom Kirwin
summariser: Eddie Gray


Pennine FM
Norwich City verses Huddersfield Town
coverage: Matt


[b][i]BBC Radio Sheffield
host: Paul Walker

Derby County verses Doncaster Rovers (AM and DAB)
commentator: Paul Walker
summariser: John Buckley

(FM)
Queens Park Rangers verses Sheffield United
commentator: Andy Giddings
summariser: Keith Edwards
Sheffield Wednesday verses Swansea City
reporter: Seth Bennett
Crystal Palace verses Barnsley
reporter: Adam Oxley


BBC Radio Humberside
Arsenal verses Hull City
commentator: David Burns
summariser: Peter Swann
reporter: James Hoggarth


KCFM
Arsenal verses Hull City
host: James Clark
commentator: Alex Burgess
summariser: Danny Pratt

London Irish V CA Brive - Alistair Eykyn (just heard a report on 5LSX)

Add Ian Robertson at (R/U) Leicester v Clem Auvergne.

Graham Taylor has now turned up at The Emirates.

Graham Taylor's arrived!

Did Graham Taylor make it to the Emirates?

Just 1 comm at Pompey for 5 Live, maybe down to illness/weather issues?

Sunday 20th December 2009

BBC Lancashire
Wolves v Burnley: Scott Reid & David Eyres

BBC RADIO SOLENT

Kris Temple hosting from studio

Portsmouth v Liverpool (1245 comm) - Laurence Herdman & Andy Awford
Leeds Utd v Southampton (1500 comm) - Adam Blackmore & Dave Merrington

I sense a Jim Spence fan club membership rush

Spencie, ya LEGEND!!

BBC Radio Scotland

19/12/09

SPL Commentators:

Rangers v Motherwell - John Barnes and Craig Paterson (810MW)
Aberdeen v Hibernian - Scott Davie and Jim Leighton (92-95FM)
Kilmarnock v Falkirk - Alisdair Lamont and Craig Brown
St Johnstone v St Mirren - Paul Mitchell and Brian Irvine
(Hamilton Accies v Dundee Utd [P-P] - Liam McLeod and Steve Cowan)

Open All Mics reporters on 103.5-105FM:

Rangers v Motherwell - Chick Young and Billy Dodds
Aberdeen v Hibernian - Sandy Clark
Kilmarnock v Falkirk - Charlie Mann
St Johnstone v St Mirren - Allan Preston
Dundee v Morton - Jim Spence

Each reporter chose a Christmas song to play whenever there was a goal at their game...I didn't listen right through, but I can imagine it was carnage

20/12/09

Hearts v Celtic - David Begg, John Robertson and John Hughes (commentary) with Chick Young pitchside

talkSPORT

Premier League
Everton v Birmingham - Dave Rowe
West Ham v Chelsea - Ian Abrahams and Alvin Martin
Wolves v Burnley - Geoff Peters

Championship
Newcastle v Middlesbrough - Graham Courtney

Scottish Premier League
Hearts v Celtic - Mark Donaldson

Heineken Cup
Sale v Harlequins - Ian Williams

First Test, Centurion
South Africa v England - Jack Bannister

PDC World Championship
Alexandra Palace - Dan Dawson

BBC Radio Five Live

Host Colin Murray
Hearts v Celtic Roddy Forsyth
Newcastle v Middlesbrough Darren Fletcher, Ian Dennis and Steve Stone (commentary)
Wolves v Burnley David Oates and Tim Flowers (commentary after conclusion of above match)
Everton v Birmingham Peter Slater
West Ham v Chelsea Simon Brotherton, John Murray and Ray Parlour (commentary)


IRN

Wolves v Burnley ?
Everton v Birmingham Paul Anthony
West Ham v Chelsea Ian Beech


Premier League Radio

Wolves v Burnley Jonathan Beck and Stewart Robson (commentary)
West Ham v Chelsea Gary Taphouse and Gary O'Reilly (commentary)


BBC London 94.9

West Ham v Chelsea Nick Godwin and Bradley Allen (commentary)

Sunday 20th December


BBC WM

WM Sport hosted by Daz Hale at Molineux (1-3.30pm) and Dan Wheeler at Goodison Park (3.30-6pm)

Premier League
Wolverhampton Wanderers v Burnley - Richard Wilford and Daz Hale (commentary)
Everton v Birmingham City - Rob Gurney and Dan Wheeler (commentary from the 26th minute onwards)



Beacon 97.2FM/Gold 1152AM (Birmingham)

Tom Ross presenting The Goalzone from Goodison Park

Premier League
Wolverhampton Wanderers v Burnley - Bill Hatton and Robbie Dennison (Beacon commentary)*
Everton v Birmingham City - Tom Ross and Jon McCarthy (Gold commentary)


*Tom anchored the pre-match and half-time chat on Beacon, but with him commentating on the Blues game Robbie Dennison hosted the post-match phone-in for half an hour before the Top 40. The chart show was the reason why the Blues commentary was on Gold rather than BRMB.

Not sure that this is necessarily the correct forum but I heard this morning that George Riley (the weekend Five Live Breakfast Show sports reporter and reporter and commentator for football and Rugby League) is moving on. Does anybody know where? He is an asset to BBC Radio in my opinion.

A couple of posts from his Twitter page:

was in bed by half 7 last night, thought I'd rest up for my last proper Weekend Breakfast shift. about 14 hours ago from web

@nigelwebbuk thanks mate, will be on weekday mornings from the New Year working with Derbyshire and Gabby Logan. about 12 hours ago from web in reply to nigelwebbuk

Thanks 4-4-2. I am glad he is remaining with the BBC.

I shall disappear until after Christmas so I would be grateful if somebody could publish the details of, at least, BBC Radio and IRN reporters on Boxing Day.

Have a great Christmas and I hope it brings you what you want.

How long was left of the game when Graham Taylor got there? What did 5 Live do before that? Did they just have one commentator commentating by himself for 22 minutes or did both McNamara and Adderly interact together (e.g, one commentates and one provides an analysis?)

Good to see Murray and Brotherton used today by the way. Normally they only seem to get one PL game a weekend but I think they should generally be able to manage two. I'd much rather hear them than some of the more average commentators.

The other commentator acted as analyst during the 22 1/2 minute stint.

Just to add on this one - I think BBC National Radio is having something of a reshuffle of their newsreaders due to the presenting changes on Radio 2 and Five Live.

I'm not much of a Five Live listener, but I tuned into Vicky Derbyshire's show on Friday for news of the Europa League draw and caught an exchange between her and sports newsreader Matt Williams.

It was mentioned that it was Matt's final day on Five Live, and that he'd be following Simon Mayo over to Radio 2 (as I believe the current R2 drivetime sports newsreader, former TMS commentator Jonny Saunders, will be following Chris Evans to Breakfast), so George will be succeeding him in the new year.

I agree with your view on George Riley, Ian - he's excelled in whatever role I've heard him in, not just as a rugby league commentator but also as an anchorman on Sports Extra. Going back a few years, I enjoyed his stint as a stand-in presenter on talkSPORT.

IMO I think George would prove a much better presenter on Five Live Sport than many of the current incumbents if given the chance.

Sunday 20th December 2009

BBC Merseyside
Everton v Birmingham: Gary Flintoff & Ronnie Goodlass

Radio City 96.7
Everton v Birmingham: Alan Irwin & Graeme Sharpe

With the 26th falling on a Saturday this year, talkSPORT will have a Boxing Day commentary after all. It will be Sunderland v Everton at 3pm.

I don't *think* they'll be doing a commentary from the Bank Holiday Monday matchday (which is taking the place of the usual Saturday round of matches that goes alongside the Boxing Day fixtures most years) although according to 4-4-2's post in the talkSPORT Chat thread, on the 28th they'll be going with mostly the same schedule as they would on any given Saturday.

On the first Saturday of the New Year, they'll be no commentary due to the FA Cup Third Round, and instead they'll be an around the grounds version of Matchday Live. It has been mentioned a few times that Adrian Durham will be presenting/reporting from the Tottenham Hotspur v Peterborough United game at White Hart Lane.

Elsewhere, BBC WM will be doing Walsall and West Brom commentaries over the festive season.

Bristol Rovers v Walsall will be WM's 3pm commentary on Boxing Day while Huddersfield Town v West Brom will be amongst their FA Cup Third Round commentaries (I'm not sure which platform it will be on what with Villa and Blues also involved in 3pm kick-offs on January 2nd).



Finally, I would like to wish every contributor to (and reader of) the radio football/sports commentators and reporters threads a very merry Christmas. I hope you all have a superb New Year.