Merry xmas everyone, will be my last post before boxing day

A very Happy Christmas and a Guid New Year from me.

Brilliant programme on BBC Radio Five Live now about football commentators.Wonderful nostalgia.

Wednesday 26th December 2012 - BBC Radio Devon (1200 - 1800)

James Vickery Presents Radio Devon Sport from Home Park

League Two
Plymouth Argyle v Torquay Utd - Gordon Sparks & Sean McCarthy with James Law talking to the fans - 95.7FM in Plymouth & West Devon, DAB Countywide (Plymouth Comms - 1300)
Plymouth Argyle v Torquay Utd - Dave Saunders & Steve Breed with Chris Fleet talking to the fans - 1458AM in Torbay & South Devon, 990AM & 95.8FM in Exeter & East Devon (Torquay Comms - 1300)
Exeter City v Oxford Utd - Nigel Walrond & Andrew Barge - 990AM & 95.8FM in Exeter & East Devon, 1458AM in Torbay & South Devon (1500)

Championship - Rugby
Plymouth Albion v Cornish Pirates - Andy Birkett & TBC - 95.7FM in Plymouth & West Devon, DAB Countywide, BBC Devon Website (1500)

BBC London
Host Phil Parry at Cardiff
Fulham v Southampton Emma Jones
Norwich v Chelsea Roland Sulley (not a name I recognise)
QPR v WBA Nick Godwin and James Scowcroft (DAB commentary)
Bristol City v Watford Jon Marks
Cardiff City v Crystal Palace PP and Rufus Brevett (FM commentary)
Charlton v Ipswich Jamie Reed
Colchester v Brentford Billy Reeves
Dagenham and Redbridge v Southend Stuart Smith
Gillingham v Barnet Brian Swain

BBC Bristol / Somerset

Ed Hadwin (studio host)

Bristol City V Watford - Andy Howard and Adam Baker (1548MW)
AFC Bournemouth V Yeovil Town - Chris Spittles and Chris Sweet (95.5FM)
Aldershot V Bristol Rovers - Richard Hoskin and Keith Brookman (94.9FM / 104.6FM / 1566MW / DAB)
Bath City V Weston-super-Mare - Mike Kay

Swansea Sound

Reading V Jackland - Antony O'Connell (commentary)

BBC Radio Five Live
Host Mark Pougatch at QPR
Everton v Wigan Jonathan Legard
Fulham v Southampton John Southall
Manchester United v Newcastle United John Murray and Kevin Gallagher (commentary)
Norwich v Chelsea Rob Nothman
QPR v WBA MP and Chris Dennis
Reading v Swansea Simon Mann
Sunderland v Man City Peter Slater
Nottingham Forest v Leeds United Dave Woods and Phil Brown (early commentary)
Cardiff City v Crystal Palace Jon Acres
Hull v Leicester Steve May
Middlesbrough v Blackburn Alistair Yeomans
Sheffield United v Scunthorpe Derm Tanner
Motherwell v Aberdeen Ian Turner (who will also cover Dundee v Celtic this evening)


BBC Sports Extra
Cardiff v Palace John Hardy and Jason Perry (as BBC Radio Wales)

Boxing Day - talkSPORT

Adrian Durham presenting Matchday Live from Craven Cottage with Ray Parlour at Loftus Road, Stan Collymore at Old Trafford and Alvin Martin at Carrow Road, followed by Call Collymore from Old Trafford and Football First with Ian Danter and Ray Houghton

Premier League
Everton v Wigan Athletic - Graham Beecroft
Fulham v Southampton - Ian Abrahams and Adrian Durham
Manchester United v Newcastle United - Dom McGuinness and Stan Collymore, with James Dodd producing
Norwich City v Chelsea - Sam Matterface and Alvin Martin (3pm commentary), with Kev Lawrence
Queens Park Rangers v West Bromwich Albion - Tony Incenzo and Ray Parlour
Reading v Swansea City - Geoff Peters
Sunderland v Manchester City - Graham Courtney
Aston Villa v Tottenham Hotspur - Nigel Pearson
Stoke City v Liverpool - Simon Humphreys

Championship
Nottingham Forest v Leeds United - Grahame Lloyd
Charlton Athletic v Ipswich Town - Lynsey Hooper
Cardiff City v Crystal Palace - Roger Hughes
Hull City v Leicester City - John Temple
Wolverhampton Wanderers v Peterborough United - Dave Rowe

Horse Racing: King George VI Chase
Kempton Park - Rupert Bell

Lynsey Hooper is a new voice on the talkSPORT airwaves, I believe she usually reports on games for BBC TV's Final Score and Sky Sports News' Soccer Saturday. She's also the first female football reporter talkSPORT have called upon for many years, I think she might be the first woman to cover a football match for them since the days when Gigi Salmon and Clare Furlong were Football First regulars over a decade ago now. I'm not exactly sure what Kev Lawrence is doing at their commentary game (Adrian has tweeted that he is there) as he's not detailing the substitutions and other pitchside reporter-type things, so I'd guess he may be working as Sam and Alvin's producer at Carrow Road. No Michael Gray today as he's doing studio punditry on Final Score.

Boxing Day - BBC WM

WM Sport with Paul Franks from Loftus Road and Mike Taylor from Villa Park

Premier League
Queens Park Rangers v West Bromwich Albion - Mark Regan and Paul Franks (3.15pm 95.6FM commentary)
Aston Villa v Tottenham Hotspur - Richard Wilford and Mike Taylor (5.30pm commentary)

Championship
Barnsley v Birmingham City - Rob Gurney (3pm DAB in Birmingham commentary)
Wolverhampton Wanderers v Peterborough United - Phil Cartwright (3pm DAB in Wolverhampton commentary)

League One
Milton Keynes Dons v Walsall - Andrew Dawkins

WM carried commentary on the first 10/15 minutes of each half in the Barnsley v Birmingham City game on 95.6FM due to the delayed kick-off at Loftus Road. There was a return for Phil Cartwright, who usually covers matches for BBC Radio Manchester these days.


Free Radio 80s

Tom Ross presenting The Goalzone from Loftus Road

Premier League
Queens Park Rangers v West Bromwich Albion - Tom Ross and Tony Brown (3.15pm commentary on 990AM in the Black Country and 1017AM in Shropshire)
Aston Villa v Tottenham Hotspur - Nathan Alleyne and Pat Heard (5.30pm commentary in Birmingham)

Championship
Barnsley v Birmingham City - Mikey Burrows and Geoff Horsfield (3pm commentary in Birmingham)
Wolverhampton Wanderers v Peterborough United - Steve Hermon and Steve Daley (3pm commentary on DAB in the Black Country and Shropshire)

League One
Stevenage v Coventry City - Joe Holt and Dave Bennett (3pm commentary in Coventry & Warwickshire)

Producer David Salt presented the first 15 minutes of The Goalzone as Tom and Bomber were held up in the traffic that delayed QPR v WBA.

BBC Radio Wales

Simon Davies (studio host)

Reading V Jackland - Rob Phillips and Ian Walsh (SW FM)
Cardiff City (1899-2012 RIP) V Crystal Palace - John Hardy and Jason Perry (SE FM)
Wrexham V AFC Telford United (1300GMT KO) - James Pontin and Kevin Ratcliffe (North FM / Online)
Forest Green Rovers V Newport County (1300GMT KO) - Mark Poyser and Andy Legg (SE FM / Online)
The New Saints V Bala Town - Marc Lloyd Williams
Cardiff Blues V Newport-Gwent Dragons (RaboDirect Pro12 RU) (1400GMT KO) - Nick Webb and Robert Jones (AM* / Digital TV/Radio*)
Ospreys V Scarlets (RaboDirect Pro12 RU)(1730GMT KO) - Cennydd Davies and Garin Jenkins (All frequencies / Online)
Horse racing from Kempton Park - Aly Rowell

(*) - Part commentary, as the AM & Digital TV/Radio frequencies were still used to provide a rolling sporting coverage.

BBC Radio Cymru

Eleri Siôn (studio host)

Reading V Jackland - Owain Llyr and Iwan Roberts (SW Wales commentary)
Cardiff City (1899-2012 RIP) V Crystal Palace - Gareth Blainey and Osian Roberts (2nd half commentary)
Wrexham V AFC Telford United (1300GMT KO) - Alwyn Parry Griffiths
The New Saints V Bala Town - Marc Lloyd Williams
Cardiff Blues V Newport-Gwent Dragons (RaboDirect Pro12 RU) (1400GMT KO) - Alun Jenkins and Brynmor Williams (commentary)
Ospreys V Scarlets (RaboDirect Pro12 RU)(1730GMT KO) - Gareth Rhys Owen and Emyr Lewis (commentary)

Aston Villa v Tottenham Hotspur
BBC Radio Five Live Alan Green and Dion Dublin (commentary)
BBC London Andy Rowley and Steve Froggatt (commentary)

BBC Radio Leeds, and official websites of Huddersfield Town and Bradford City
host: Gareth Jones at the Huddersfield Sports Stadium
Nottingham Forest versus Leeds United
reporter: Katherine Hannah
Huddersfield Town versus Blackpool (92.4, 95.3 and 102.7 FM, and official Huddersfield Town website)
commentator: Paul Ogden
summariser: Kieran O'Regan
Bradford City versus Accrington Stanley (103.9 FM, AM, DAB and official Bradford City website)
commentator: Dave Fletcher
summariser: John Hendrie


Yorkshire Radio (DAB), Mince Pie FM and official Leeds United website
host: Michael Weadock
Nottingham Forest versus Leeds United
commentator: Thom Kirwin
summariser: Eddy Gray
reporter: Johnny Buchan


The Pulse
Bradford City versus Accrington Stanley
host and commentator: Tim Thornton
summariser: Ian Ormondroyd

I've never heard Lynsey Hooper on Soccer Saturday, however she does the online SSN updates.

Also she does the Sunday sports round up in the studio on ITV Central's news bulletin.

Stoke v Liverpool
BBC Radio Five Live Ian Brown, Darren Fletcher and Kevin Kilbane (commentary)
Last edited by IanFergus : 26-12-2012 at 20:12

for some reason, BBC Radio Berkshire caried Rob Phillips and Ian Walsh's commentary of Reading v Swansea. they had a presenter and pundit at the ground and were regularly cutting away from radio wales commentary to provide analysis. I'm guessing that for some reason their regular Royals commentator was unavailable and they didn't have time to arrange/don't have on their books another commentator who could have covered the game.

BBC Radio Manchester presented by Jimmy Wagg from Old Trafford

Sunderland v Manchester City - Ian Cheeseman and Fred Eyre - commentary
Everton v Wigan Athletic - Paul Rowley - reports
Manchester United v Newcastle United - Bill Rice - reports
Bolton Wanderers v Sheffield Wednesday - Jack Dearden - reports
Oldham Athletic v Doncaster Rovers - John Gilder - reports
Preston North End v Bury - Phil Kinsella - reports
Burton Albion v Rochdale - Graham Miller - reports

Any news of the IRN reporters please?
BBC Lancashire? BBC Merseyside?

BBC Radio Cumbria Sport 2.00pm-6.00pm Presented by Paul Newton at Brunton Park

Carlisle United v Hartlepool United James Phillips and Chris Lumsdon (commentary)
Barrow v Gateshead Andy Wood and John Goodwin (commentary)
AFC Fylde v Kendal Town Garry Woodworth
Racing at Kempton Rupert Bell

Boxing Day - talkSPORT Live

Premier League
Everton v Wigan Athletic - Mark Tompkins
Fulham v Southampton - Tim Long
Manchester United v Newcastle United - David Oates and Paul Mortimer (featured 3pm commentary on international radio stations)
Norwich City v Chelsea - Toby Gilles
Queens Park Rangers v West Bromwich Albion - Kevin Hatchard
Reading v Swansea City - Phil Barker
Sunderland v Manchester City - Adam Bridge
Aston Villa v Tottenham Hotspur - John Anderson and Paul Mortimer
Stoke City v Liverpool - Alex Crook and Alan McLoughlin

There was another talkSPORT Live debut yesterday, this time for former Republic of Ireland international and Newstalk regular Alan McLoughlin who teamed up with Alex Crook on the late game, thus renewing their once regular commentary tandem for Portsmouth games on Quay FM.


Signal 1 (Stoke-on-Trent)

? presented Signal Sport from the studios

Premier League
Stoke City v Liverpool - George Andrews and Mike Pejic (7.45pm commentary)

I didn't catch the name of Signal's presenter. talkSPORT's reporter at the game Simon Humphreys joined the Signal Sport commentary team for an extended period ahead of the game, where he was referred to both as Signal's news and sports editor and talkSPORT's reporter at the match. The last time I listened to Signal Sport, Ian Abrahams was called upon in the same fashion, so is it a regular thing for Signal/other UTV Local Radio stations that do football commentaries to speak to talkSPORT's reporters at their live matches ahead of kick-off?

I'm afraid I can't help with any of the information Ian requested, although I can tell you that Pete Donaldson presented Rock 'N' Roll Football yesterday in the absence of Russ Williams and a live commentary on Absolute Radio, while in Ireland neither Today FM or Newstalk had any commentary matches and were doing non-sports programmes as far as I know. Thanks for the information about Lynsey Hooper Callum, I guess I must have confused her online work for Sky Sports with Soccer Saturday (it's a show I haven't watched for years). Now you mention it I have seen her on Central News as well.

Thanks Ian

I'll look on iplayer

Saturday 29th December

BBC Radio Cumbria Sport 2.00pm-6.00pm Presented by Paul Newton at Brunton Park

Carlisle United v Bury James Phillips and Chris Lumsdon (commentary)
Macclesfield Town v Barrow Andy Wood and John Goodwin (commentary)
Vauxhall Motors v Workington Reds John Walsh
Frickley Athletic v Kendal Town Garry Woodworth

BBC Radio Leicester

Premier League
Arsenal v Newcastle United - Russell Fuller
Aston Villa v Wigan - Pat Murphy
Fulham v Swansea - Jonathan Overend
Manchester United v West Brom - Conor McNamara
Norwich City v Manchester City - John Murray and Dean Ashton (15:00 commentary)
Reading v West Ham - John Southall
Stoke v Southampton - Ian Brown
Sunderland v Tottenham - Darren Fletcher and Kevin Kilbane (12:45 commentary)

Championship
Barnsley v Blackburn - Chris Dennis
Cardiff v Millwall - Andy Gillies
Huddersfield v Sheffield Wednesday - Steve May
Hull v Leeds - Peter Slater
Nottingham Forest v Crystal Palace - Simon Mann
Middlesbrough v Blackpool - Dave Woods

League Two
Cheltenham v Bristol Rovers - John Acres

FA Cup - Second Round Replay
Macclesfield v Barrow - Juliette Ferrington

Saturday 29th December - talkSPORT Live

Premier League
Sunderland v Tottenham Hotspur - Tony Lockwood and Paul Mortimer
Aston Villa v Wigan Athletic - Kevin Hatchard
Fulham v Swansea City - Tim Long
Manchester United v West Bromwich Albion - Richard Connelly and Paul Mortimer (featured 3pm commentary on international radio stations)
Norwich City v Manchester City - Toby Gilles
Reading v West Ham United - Adam Bridge
Stoke City v Southampton - Keith Hall
Arsenal v Newcastle United - Mark Tompkins and Jason Euell

The latest commentator to make a talkSPORT Live debut over the Christmas period is Tony Lockwood, who was once a commentator and reporter for talkSPORT UK either side of its rebrand from Talk Radio. During the build-up to the early game Tony was joined by talkSPORT Live editor and occasional commentator Tom Rennie, who talked about the spat between Sir Alex Ferguson and Alan Pardew.

deleted in light of the difference's comments re Tony Lockwood.

Saturday 29th December

BBC WM 95.6

Premier League
Mark Regan and Paul Franks: Man Utd v WBA(Live commentary on 95.6 FM)
Richard Wilford: Villa v Wigan
Championship
Rob Gurney and Daz Hale: Wolves v Ipswich(Live commentary on DAB in the Black country)
Mike Taylor: Bolton v Blues(Live commentary on DAB in Birmingham)
League One
Andrew Dawkins: Leyton Orient v Walsall

Richie Anderson: outside Vlla Park talking to the fans
Paul Franks: Presenting live from Old Trafford