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2010 World Cup Commentators & Coverage
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mogzyboy
19-06-2010
So you did, sorry.
skimminstones
19-06-2010
Guys do any of you know an FM station that is broadcasting the games? I wont have access to internet or MW next week.
eugenespeed
19-06-2010
Who's the guy on Five Live doing the Cameroon - Denmark game that sounds like Graham Norton
Jaggs
19-06-2010
Originally Posted by eugenespeed:
“Who's the guy on Five Live doing the Cameroon - Denmark game that sounds like Graham Norton ”

Would it be Connor McNamara?
eugenespeed
19-06-2010
Originally Posted by Jaggs:
“Would it be Connor McNamara?”

Your guess is as good as mine
The Difference
20-06-2010
Saturday 19th June - talkSPORT

Mark Saggers presenting World Cup Matchday Live from Johannesburg with Stan Collymore at the Lofus Versfeld Stadium, Pretoria

FIFA 2010 World Cup Group E
Cameroon v Denmark - Jim Proudfoot and Stan Collymore (commentary)
4-4-2
20-06-2010
Not strictly World Cup related but I see Ian Payne is presenting Scores on LBC this Saturday. It's their weekly sports show between 15:00-18:00.
bwfcol
20-06-2010
Slovakia vs Paraguay
Nigel Adderly, Alistair Bruce-Ball and Pat Nevin
shaun_d
20-06-2010
5 Live

Italy v New Zealand Arlo White, Robbie Savage & Mike Sewell
4-4-2
20-06-2010
Sunday 20th June: talkSPORT

Adrian Durham presenting World Cup Matchday Live betweem 12:00-17:00.

FIFA 2010 World Cup: Group F
Slovakia v Paraguay 12:30 - Graham Beecroft and Ray Parlour (commentary)
Italy v New Zealand 15:00 - John Rawling and Bobby Gould (commentary)

Later, Mark Saggers presents World Cup Matchday Live between 19:00-23:00 from Soccer City in Johannesburg.

FIFA 2010 World Cup: Group G
Brazil v Ivory Coast 19:30 - Jim Proudfoot and Stan Collymore (commentary)

US Open: Day Four
Pebble Beach, California - Bob Bubka
Ian Aberdon
20-06-2010
Somebody take Robbie Savage off the air PRONTO!!!!
Adam619
20-06-2010
Originally Posted by 4-4-2:
“Not strictly World Cup related but I see Ian Payne is presenting Scores on LBC this Saturday. It's their weekly sports show between 15:00-18:00.”

Ian Payne also presented breakfast on 5 Live this morning giving Nicky Campbell his first day off in South Africa since the World Cup started
bwfcol
20-06-2010
Originally Posted by Ian Aberdon:
“Somebody take Robbie Savage off the air PRONTO!!!!”

Really?

I've really enjoyed him so far
Tokyo
20-06-2010
Originally Posted by bwfcol:
“Really?

I've really enjoyed him so far”

Hope the Radio Sport guy enjoys his company at the bar..
IanFergus
20-06-2010
I listened to some of the commentary on Radio Sports NZ (Jason Pine and Miles Davis). Great stuff!
bwfcol
20-06-2010
Brazil vs Ivory Coast
John Murray, Alan Green and Chris Waddle
Jim Gellatly
20-06-2010
Alan Green particularly annoys me. About the only one on 5 Live who refers to England as "we"... Saying that though, I do love 5 Live's coverage. Just wish you had the option to listen to their commentary during the ITV games... Mind you, if I get off my big fat a*** I could just put the radio on and turn down the sound.

Hoping England win the World Cup as the London/English stations will go on about it for the next 40 years... 10 times worse than 66... and Scottish radio can only benefit.
The Difference
20-06-2010
Took the opportunity to listen to Graham Beecroft and Ray Parlour on Slovakia v Paraguay today, managed to get it in time with the TV pictures. I've now listened to all five of talkSPORT's commentators doing World Cup matches. Enjoyed listening to Beeky today, very very much so indeed.

Off-topic side note: full marks to whoever at BBC TV decided it would be a good idea to provide Freeview viewers on 301 with in-running highlights of the live game rather than give us the usual alternative audio commentary option. I'm sure there are hundreds of people who really prefer watching brief clips of a match as it takes place rather than taking it in live. This has happened at least three times now when Steve Wilson has been commentating, most annoying.

Going back to Beeky - am I right in saying this is the first major international tournament he's covered as a commentator?

It certainly is his first as a commentator on talkSPORT. Since joining the then-Talk Radio just after France 98, he missed out on Euro 2000 when Alan Parry and Jim Proudfoot were their commentators and JP did all of their commentaries from World Cup 2002.

At Euro 2004, Beeky covered non-commentary games from the group stage as a reporter before replacing an unwell Mike Parry on The Sports Breakfast during the knockout phases, and then continued as Alan Brazil's permanent breakfast co-host in London during World Cup 2006. He was then a match reporter for talkSPORT at Euro 2008, which they didn't buy commentary rights to due to the lack of a UK presence.

Anyone know if he was used as a commentator at an international tournament by BBC Radio during his time at Radio Merseyside in the 1980s, or for ILR during his spell as Radio City's sports editor in the 1990s?

If this is his first major tournament as a commentator, then I have to say it's quite amazing that it's taken about 30 years in broadcasting for Beeky to finally get the chance to commentate on a World Cup game - especially as he was twice a Sony Sports Broadcaster of the Year nominee in the 1980s.

Still, better late than never, I hope he seizes this opportunity now it has come.
4-4-2
21-06-2010
I don't have specific details about presenters or commentators but I've got some schedule details about days on talkSPORT without live commentaries during the World Cup.

On weekdays, Andy Townsend and Mike Parry will go from 10:00-12:00 to 10:00-13:00 (World Cup Matchday Live will begin at 13:00 on matchdays rather than 12:00), as will Hawksbee & Jacobs at weekends. H&J will also come back to 13:00-16:00 on non matchdays with Drive starting at 16:00 and World Cup Kick-Off instead of World Cup Matchday Live from 19:00.

On Sunday 4th July the schedule is...

06:00 World Cup Weekend Breakfast with Danny Kelly & Micky Quinn
10:00 Hawksbee & Jacobs
13:00 World Cup Kick-Off
17:00 Andy Goldstein's Sports Bar
19:00 World Cup Kick-Off

I hope that makes some sort of sense...
4-4-2
21-06-2010
Monday 21st June: talkSPORT

Ian Danter presenting World Cup Matchday Live.

FIFA 2010 World Cup: Group G
Portugal v North Korea - John Rawling and Bobby Gould (commentary)

FIFA 2010 World Cup: Group H
Chile v Switzerland - Graham Beecroft and Ray Parlour (commentary)

Wimbledon Championships
The All England Club, London - Dave Luddy and Katy Murrells
The Difference
21-06-2010
Originally Posted by 4-4-2:
“I don't have specific details about presenters or commentators but I've got some schedule details about days on talkSPORT without live commentaries during the World Cup.

On weekdays, Andy Townsend and Mike Parry will go from 10:00-12:00 to 10:00-13:00 (World Cup Matchday Live will begin at 13:00 on matchdays rather than 12:00), as will Hawksbee & Jacobs at weekends. H&J will also come back to 13:00-16:00 on non matchdays with Drive starting at 16:00 and World Cup Kick-Off instead of World Cup Matchday Live from 19:00.

On Sunday 4th July the schedule is...

06:00 World Cup Weekend Breakfast with Danny Kelly & Micky Quinn
10:00 Hawksbee & Jacobs
13:00 World Cup Kick-Off
17:00 Andy Goldstein's Sports Bar
19:00 World Cup Kick-Off

I hope that makes some sort of sense...”

It certainly does, so thanks for posting those schedules 4-4-2.

The normal weekday 6am-7pm weekday schedule (albeit with Townsend & Parry and Drive coming from South Africa) will return on the rest days on Wednesday 30th June and Thursday 1st July, and then from Monday 4th July onwards (from that point the remaining games all kick-off at 7.30pm).

On a similar note, I've not seen the schedules but common sense dictates that Wednesday's World Cup Drivetime will not be broadcast after commentary on Slovenia v England, with a Big Game Phone-In with Stan Collymore from Port Elizabeth going out between 5-7pm instead.

Should England progress to the second round, then we'll lose one of this weekend's Sports Bar shows. If England are playing at 7.30pm on Saturday as group winners, then Goldstein and Cundy will be rested for a big build-up from 5pm (as was the case for England v USA), and should they be playing at 3pm on Sunday as group runners-up, then a Big Game Phone-In (or extra time) will take priority between 5-7pm.

I wonder what those World Cup Kick-Off shows hold. It could be that the 1-5pm show on Sunday 4th July might be a World Cup version of Football First on Sunday with Ian Danter, Alvin Martin and perhaps Ray Houghton. As for the weekday evening shows, with them going out on rest days, it would make sense to give Mark Saggers those days off and have Danny Kelly present these shows instead.
The Difference
21-06-2010
I notice that Five Live have moved Chile v Switzerland to Sports Extra today, with coverage from the first day of Wimbledon taking priority on AM.

This is a poor decision in my view, considering this game could potentially decide who goes through from Group H with Spain.
shaun_d
21-06-2010
5 Live

Portugal v N Korea Darren Fletcher, Graham Taylor & David Oates
Andy Rimmer
21-06-2010
Originally Posted by The Difference:
“I notice that Five Live have moved Chile v Switzerland to Sports Extra today, with coverage from the first day of Wimbledon taking priority on AM.

This is a poor decision in my view, considering this game could potentially decide who goes through from Group H with Spain.”

Probably less so now by fluke with Federer struggling to avoid a shock 1st Round loss. I don't think it'll be the first commentary switch this week.

Jacqui Oatley and Danny Mills commentating on Sports Extra. No second commentator.
bwfcol
21-06-2010
Nigel Adderly is the reporter for 5Live on Chi/Swi
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