Wish FM/Latics Player for Community Shield was Presenter Chris Milow Live from Wembley from 1pm with usual Latics commentators Paul Chialton & Neill Rimmer on commentary.

Winger Adam Hamill lined up in a 3 man central defence for Huddersfield on Saturday according to Graham Courtney on Talksport.

You're really not a fan are you?

His interviews he gives re the North East big 2 are good but he is often all at sea when doing live reports. He covers all my side's home games (Newcastle) so I am probably more critical of him than others but he often fails to identify players. When he does get the goalscorer right you quite often dont know who has supplied the pass or how the move has built up-'its one of those?', 'the ball came in from the right/left', 'chaos in the penalty area (I dont really know what happened)'.
Hamill has been around the Championship scene long enough and has never played defence. Courtney is however definitely holding my interest one way or another!

NUFC Player

Saturday 10th August 6pm.
Newcastle - Braga
Mick Lowes and John Anderson

They basically hired the BBC Newcastle team for the day, be interesting to see if the BBC use the commentary on TotalSport tomorrow

BBC Radio Leicester

CHAMPIONSHIP
Leicester City v Leeds United - Jason Bourne presenting from the King Power Stadium, with Ian Stringer and Alan Young (commentary)

YB40 - GROUP C
Leicestershire v Yorkshire - Andy Gibbs

FOURTH ASHES TEST
England v Australia - Jamie Broughton

It might just be that because you are listening so intently to Graham Courtney that you notice his mistakes much more often than you do with any of the other reporters you hear, either on talkSPORT or elsewhere. Personally I have never noticed a great deal of factual errors or gaffs in Graham's reporting, but then as he rarely covers my team I'll be paying him as much attention as I am the majority of the other Matchday Live reporters (i.e. I'm not hanging off his every word as I might do if he was covering my club).

I can't think of any sports broadcaster that I have heard who is always word perfect and has never made the odd mistake every so often during the intensity of covering a live sporting event, something I'm sure isn't at all easy to do. I'm sure if we were listening hard enough to most radio football commentators/reporters over the course of a 90 minutes they were working on, we'd all be able to pick out the odd mistake here or there, so I think it's a bit much to continually highlight little things that one particular reporter has gotten wrong. If on Saturday Graham got one bit of team news from a club he doesn't usually cover wrong, then yes this is unfortunate, but it is not a biggie either.

I'd prefer to focus on the positives - for me Graham Courtney is one of the best regional sports correspondents around. He knows the teams on his patch and seems to have a deep knowledge of their histories and a strong connection with their present day affairs. He has an instantly recognisable voice that stands out and sounds good on the radio. He seems well liked by his colleagues, tends to work well with the pundits who join him at games and always strikes up a good rapport with the presenters he talks to when on shows like the Alan Brazil Sports Breakfast, Hawksbee & Jacobs and Kick Off. People of Graham's ilk are quintessential radio sports reporters - they represent their patches with a distinction and closeness that a person who works the length and breadth of the country and just pops up at the same game for the day couldn't possibly hope to match.

BBC Radio Humberside
host: Matt Dean in the studio
commentator: John Tondeur
summariser: Robbie Stockdale*

*because he's at Sunderland.

Tuesday 13th August - talkSPORT

Mark Saggers presenting Kick Off alongside Martin Lipton from the Daily Mirror

Under-21 International
England Under-21s v Scotland Under-21s - Graham Courtney

England U21 v Scotland U21

5 Live - Will Perry
Sports Extra - Paul Walker + Kevin Gallacher (commentary)

BBC Radio Wales

Halifax Town v Wrexham - Steffan Garrero (studio host) Simon Davies and Dixie McNeill (All frequencies / Online)

Owian Llyr has also said (he's a regular on Radio Cymru 'C2' Wednesday show) that he'll be commentating on Bristol Rovers v Newport County (alongside Waynne Phillips) this Saturday. Since Vincent Tan's Dragons are also involved that day, I might 'dip in' just before 3pm, to see whether there'll be a split of frequencies so that Newport County will be a nationwide commentary, with the Dragons only on SE FM.

I won't be listening to Radio Wales.

To ammended a few details I posted a few days ago. talkSPORT's new weekend schedule from Saturday 17th August will be:

Saturday
01:00 Extra Time with Russell Hargreaves
05:00 Fisherman's Blues with Keith Arthur
07:00 The Weekend Sports Breakfast with Georgie Bingham & Micky Quinn
11:00 The Warm Up with Johny Vaughan
13:00 Matchday Live with Adrian Durham
19:30 Call Collymore
21:00 Football First with Ian Danter

Sunday
01:00 Extra Time with Russell Hargreaves
05:00 Fisherman's Blues with Keith Arthur
07:00 The Weekend Sports Breakfast with Georgie Bingham & Micky Quinn
11:00 The Warm Up with Max Rushden
13:00 Sunday Exclusive with Mark Saggers
16:00 Call Collymore
18:00 The Press Pass with Des Kelly
20:00 Howzat with Dominic Cork*
22:00 My Sporting Life with Danny Kelly

*I'd imagine Howzat will be replaced by Full Contact when the new rugby union season gets underway in September.

I thought it was going to be Danny Kelly on /The Warm Up/The Season Ticket as his face was on the talkSPORT website as the programme's presenter.

Elsewhere, Mark Saggers now becomes the Kick-Off presenter from Monday to Thursday.

The Alan Brazil Sports Breakfast (weekdays 6-10am) will also have new guests: Neil Warnock will be in the co-host seat on Mondays and Fridays, ex-England cricketer Dominic Cork on Tuesdays, Tottenham and France legend David Ginola each Wednesday and Brian Moore on Thursdays.

BBC Radio Scotland, 14/8/13

Richard Gordon presenting Sportsound from Wembley on 810MW.

England v Scotland (8pm) - Liam McLeod, Willie Miller and Chick Young (commentary) with Chris McLauglin pitchside

Wednesday 14th August - talkSPORT

Mark Saggers presenting Kick Off: International Special from Wembley Stadium alongside Stan Collymore and Craig Brown

International Friendlies
England v Scotland - Sam Matterface, Stan Collymore and Craig Brown (8pm commentary), with John Anderson at pitchside and Carl Ralley producing
Wales v Republic of Ireland - Roger Hughes

FIFA World Cup 2014 Qualifying Group F
Northern Ireland v Russia - Graham Beecroft

Adrian Durham and Alvin Martin presented Drive Time from the Hilton Hotel on Wembley Way between 4-7pm. Ian Abrahams was with them, talking to the fans of both teams on their way to the game. Dom McGuinness has been talkSPORT's reporter at England and Scotland's press conferences ahead of the match.

Wales v Republic of Ireland

BBC Radio Wales - Steffan Garrero (hosting from ground) Mark Poyser, Ian Walsh and Leighton James (All frequencies)
BBC Radio Cymru - Owain Llyr (who gave us the opening statement that 'Football is back' - Not quite ) with commentary from Dylan Griffiths and Iwan Roberts

Wales U21 V Finland U21 (UEFA U21 qualifier) Simon Davies (Radio Wales) / Marc Lloyd Wiliams (Radio Cymru) FT reports.

5 Live - 14.8.13

With Mark Chapman at Wembley

England v Scotland - Alistair Bruce-Ball, Danny Mills, Pat Nevin + John Murray

Northern Ireland v Russia - Mike Sewell

Wales v Republic of Ireland - Ian Brown

Quick flick over to 5LSX sees them taking Radio Ulster commentary (no idea who's doing what)

Dixie McNeill was interviewed by Katherine hannah during Tuesday's West Yorkshire Sport Daily.

The online Radio Wales stream broadcast the usual loop for when they can't do commentaries. halifax Town have an online player that people have to subscribe to like Football League clubs.

Are some Conference clubs not allowing the BBC Sport website to broadcast their matches? Is it likely more Conference radio commentaries will be premium in the future?

Radio Nan Gaidheal

Presented by Iain Moireasdan with commentary from Derek Moireach and Ailig O'Henley.

That's odd then, as the presenters were giving out the online 'link' on air.

Steve Austins (editor of Radio Wales) has also just been on the newly launched nightly sports how (imaginatively titled 'Radio Wales Sport') to tell people about how the frequency splits will happen this season.

Link is available Here

Disappointingly Vincnet Tan was on before it to more or less say he's got a 'never say never' approach to his team to what has now happened over the week to Hull City.

Does anyone know if Fighting Talk is coming back for 5 Live?

Apparently Guy Mowbray will be commentating on Man City V Newcastle for 5 Live on Monday night. Interesting if true - I wonder if it's because it's early season or if Darren Fletcher is going to be replaced by a range of MOTD commentators. I wouldn't mind the latter happening.

Alan Green and Mike Ingham often don't appear till September so we won't get a full reflection until then I feel

From the link you posted, Radio Wales basically doesn't broadcast the matches on the normal Radio Wales stream. Instead they use a separate stream that is intended to only be received in the UK.


Does Newport not have a different frequency to Cardiff? If so, it is disappointing that the frequency isn't being used to provide Newport County commentaries. At least Cardiff City being in the Premier League will mean that there are more Newport County commentaries.

Radio Wales is hoping to be able to regionalise the DAB service in the south. If that happens and Cardiff and Newport are playing at the same time, it would make more sense to put one on FM and the other on DAB in the south-east.

The Newport area is served by 95.9 (there used to be an old Radio Gwent opt out until sometime in the mid 80s)


I think the plan is to have the FM and local DAB to have the same output, so how they'd re-split it again I have no idea.

I'm not sure, I've not heard anything to say either way.

The old 'Sport on 2' theme is coming back for Friday nights