Sunday 17th April - talkSPORT
Alan Brazil presenting Sunday Exclusive alongside Bobby Gould and Chris Davies from the Daily Telegraph, followed by Call Kelly with Danny Kelly
FA Cup Semi-Final
Bolton Wanderers v Stoke City - Simon Humphreys and Ray Houghton
Premier League
Arsenal v Liverpool - Kev Lawrence
Rugby Union: Premiership
London Wasps v Leeds Carnegie - Russell Hargreaves
Formula 1: Chinese Grand Prix
Shanghai International Circuit - Graham Courtney
Given the shortage of live sport taking place during Sunday Exclusive, I was quite surprised that there was no reporter at the Aberdeen v Celtic Scottish Cup Semi-Final (much to Alan's displeasure!). I know Peter Martin was running the London Marathon today and Mark Donaldson has left the country, but even in the absence of an on-site presence at Hampden Park surely off-tube updates would have been preferable to none at all.
On a more positive note, I think talkSPORT got it right with there of choice of reporters at both FA Cup Semi-Finals. Yesterday their Manchester football correspondent Dom McGuinness covered City v United while Simon Humphreys, a Stokie who normally reports on Bolton and other North West clubs, is covering today's game. Both reporters closely follow both of the clubs involved in their respective ties, so it was a wise move to assign them to these games rather than relying on a couple of their London-based reporters, as they usually would for games played at Wembley.
Interesting to see Kev Lawrence getting to report on more games in London on top of those taking place in his usual 'patch' of East Anglia. He was talkSPORT's pitchside reporter at Arsenal v Blackburn Rovers a few weeks ago and has since covered games at both North London Premier League clubs over the past two weekends. I know their four main London correspondents (Ian Abrahams, Mike Bovill, Andy Clarke and Andrew McKenna) all have lots of other commitments both with talkSPORT and elsewhere so won't always be available to cover matches, but it appears they are starting to favour Kev over their other South East-based reporters.
