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2010 World Cup Commentators & Coverage
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Tokyo
11-07-2010
Originally Posted by The Difference:
“For those wondering, although Mark Saggers was presenting from Lourie Lodge, Jim and Ray were commentating from Nelson Mandela Bay (as was confirmed when I tuned in during the half-time interval and at full-time, when they commented on the weather and were wished a safe journey home).

Seeing as both Jim and Ray are due to be play important roles in the station's World Cup Final coverage, I think it was a brave decision by talkSPORT to send them to Port Elizabeth to do tonight's game on-site, what with the lingering worries over air travel after the problems that hit Durban on Wednesday. Fingers crossed that they make it back to Johannesburg without any hiccups and in good time for the game tomorrow.”

I've had zero access to talkSPORT commentaries. Upon hearing some clips just now I assumed by the sound 'quality' they were not there yesterday. I guess the vuvu din distorts everything.
The Difference
11-07-2010
Sunday 11th July - talkSPORT

Mark Saggers presenting World Cup Matchday Live from Soccer City Stadium, Johannesburg alongside Ray Parlour, Stan Collymore and Adrian Durham

FIFA 2010 World Cup Final
Netherlands v Spain - Jim Proudfoot and Stan Collymore (commentary)

Ian Abrahams has been interviewing the Dutch and Spanish fans in Johannesburg and will be conducting interviews in the mixed zone after the match
shaun_d
11-07-2010
Originally Posted by The Difference:
“Saturday 10th July - BBC Radio 5 Live

Mark Pougatch presenting 5 Live Sport: World Cup 2010 from Johannesburg with Chris Waddle

FIFA 2010 World Cup Third Place Play-Off
Uruguay v Germany - John Murray, Ian Dennis and Vladimir Hernandez (commentary)
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Before I put the 5 Live stats up, does anyone know if Waddle contributed during the match or just before, halftime and after. Thanks.
The Difference
12-07-2010
Originally Posted by shaun_d:
“Before I put the 5 Live stats up, does anyone know if Waddle contributed during the match or just before, halftime and after. Thanks.”

Chris was contributing during the match as well.

Do you have the details of Five Live's coverage (including presenters, pundits, reporters etc would be good) from last night?
Andy Rimmer
12-07-2010
Originally Posted by The Difference:
“Chris was contributing during the match as well.

Do you have the details of Five Live's coverage (including presenters, pundits, reporters etc would be good) from last night?”

Mark Pougatch presented from the ground. Guillem Balague was with him for most of the pre match and Graham Taylor. They also had a dutch journalist for a time but I didn't catch his name.

Commentary was: Mike Ingham (1-22), Alan Green (23-45) & Chris Waddle with Graham Taylor chipping in on occassions.

Post Match saw them interview an emotional Guillem for a bit before Alan Green commentated on the presentation. Bit of a review with Taylor and Waddle about the tournament then Green did 606 till 11pm.
The Difference
12-07-2010
Originally Posted by The Difference:
“Sunday 11th July - talkSPORT

Mark Saggers presenting World Cup Matchday Live from Soccer City Stadium, Johannesburg alongside Ray Parlour, Stan Collymore and Adrian Durham

FIFA 2010 World Cup Final
Netherlands v Spain - Jim Proudfoot and Stan Collymore (commentary)

Ian Abrahams has been interviewing the Dutch and Spanish fans in Johannesburg and will be conducting interviews in the mixed zone after the match”

It was mostly Mark Saggers and Ray Parlour fronting the coverage last night, although Stan Collymore chipped in as a pundit from 6pm until the end of the coverage at 11pm on top of co-commentating.

Ray stayed on at Soccer City to co-host the first hour of The Late Show with Ian Collins, which was branded as a World Cup programme going into breaks.

According to @talkbackstuck on Twitter, Jon Norman and Matt Smith were producing the talkSPORT coverage from Soccer City while James Masterton and Sam Impey were driving the show from London.

True to talkSPORT's chaotic form at the tournament, it's been said on there that Jon Norman only found out he was producing the final 90 minutes before the coverage started and Villa Matt was a late call-up too.


As a caveat, I didn't hear Adrian Durham during the bits of the coverage I listened to (which was most of the first hour and a half before the TV coverage started and then during the last half hour). He'd said earlier that he was going to the final, so maybe he was just there as a fan. He may have popped up as a phone guest but even if he did he would only have played a minor role in their coverage.

Apparently John Anderson was still in South Africa too, although I don't think he's done any reporting since England flew home so he might have stayed on-site as a fan too.

Some of the talkSPORT team are staying in South Africa to continue broadcasting - Mark Saggers presented the Sports Breakfast from Johannesburg (which begs the question why they decided to fly Ian Danter back to the UK sooner than expected) and I think he's covering for part of the week, while Ian Abrahams read today's morning sports bulletins from there too although is flying home this afternoon.

The station has been quick in reverting back to normal from their "World Cup station" moniker though, with the bumpers going into their hourly news updates now stating that they are "an official broadcaster of the Barclays Premier League" rather than of the FIFA World Cup.
shaun_d
12-07-2010
This is 5 Live's World Cup stats then

Commentators

17 Alan Green, John Murray
14 Conor McNamara
13 Darren Fletcher
12 Alistair Bruce-Ball
11 Nigel Adderley
09 David Oates, Mike Sewell
07 Mike Ingham, Jacqui Oatley
05 Arlo White
03 Ian Dennis

Thats all matches attended so includes commentaries on 5 Live, Sports Extra, the website and reporting duties.

Co-commentators

17 Chris Waddle
13 Graham Taylor
10 David Pleat
09 Pat Nevin
06 Danny Mills, Jan Molby, Robbie Savage
04 David Moyes
01 Vladimir Hernandez

Chris Waddle and Graham Taylor's numbers include those matches where though not the main summariser they did contribute during play.

Noticed at half time yesterday they were playing trailers for the new football season!
bwfcol
12-07-2010
Alan Green would have been 18 if he hadn't been ill, he missed one game
The Difference
13-07-2010
Originally Posted by Andy Rimmer:
“Mark Pougatch presented from the ground. Guillem Balague was with him for most of the pre match and Graham Taylor. They also had a dutch journalist for a time but I didn't catch his name.

Commentary was: Mike Ingham (1-22), Alan Green (23-45) & Chris Waddle with Graham Taylor chipping in on occassions.

Post Match saw them interview an emotional Guillem for a bit before Alan Green commentated on the presentation. Bit of a review with Taylor and Waddle about the tournament then Green did 606 till 11pm.”

Thanks for those details Andy.

I've subsequently had a listen on the IPlayer after you posted those details and the Dutch journalist 5 Live called upon was Marcel Van Der Kraan.

Like Guillem Balague is with Spain, Marcel is one of talkSPORT's regular Dutch football correspondents. It is interesting that Guillem, Marcel, Raphael Honigstein, Tim Vickery and other non-UK based football journalists appeared on both stations during the World Cup.

The reporters that were heard during their build-up were Mark Clemmit (in Amsterdam) and Sarah Rainsford (in Madrid) giving the atmosphere from the competing countries, plus Graham Hunter (a Catalonia based journalist who is a regular on Sky Sports and talkSPORT) had done a pre-recorded report about Carles Puyol.

It was mentioned that Alistair Yeomans was 5 Live's producer at Soccer City, although I'm not sure if he conducted any of their after-match interviews or if they just relied on those done by BBC TV's Garth Crooks.
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