Going a bit earlier on this, but with Football League Play-Off Final weekend coming to its conclusion today I have compiled the presenting, commentary and pitchside reporting statistics from talkSPORT's live football coverage during the 2013/14 season. I know talkSPORT have still got three England friendly internationals to cover prior to the FIFA World Cup, but seeing as we already know what their coverage team for those matches will be (Mark Saggers will present, Jim Proudfoot and Stan Collymore will commentate and Ian Danter will be their pitchside reporter), I am in a position to put together the numbers from this season including the games still to come.

By the start of Brazil 2014, talkSPORT will have done a total of 142 live commentaries in 2013/14 - a four game increase on last season. The number of matches they have covered from each of the competitions they have access to breaks down as follows:

Premier League - 69 games (29 on Saturdays at 5.30pm, 32 on Sundays including one at 4.30pm on Capital One Cup Final day and 8 on Wednesdays including one at 3pm on New Year's Day)
FA Cup - 27
UEFA Champions League - 22
Capital One Cup - 9
International Friendlies - 7
Club Friendlies - 3 (2 from the Premier League Asia Trophy plus Steven Gerrard's Testimonial)
Football League Play-Off Finals - 2
La Liga - 2
FA Community Shield - 1

In addition to these full match commentaries, there were six other games - none of which I have included in either the list above or in the individual statistics below - that talkSPORT carried a partial commentary of some form on. During the UEFA Champions League group stage, John Roder provided solo commentary on the final five minutes of Chelsea v FC Basel while their featured match that night, Olympique Marseille v Arsenal, was concluding. During Capital One Cup Quarter-Final week, reporter Ian Abrahams and presenter Mark Saggers teamed up to provide about 15 minutes of commentary on Tottenham Hotspur v West Ham United while their featured match that night, Stoke City v Manchester United, was held up due to a hail storm. talkSPORT also carried commentary on three penalty shootouts from that competition; these coming from reporters Nigel Pearson (West Bromwich Albion v Arsenal, R3), Dave Rowe (Birmingham City v Stoke City, R4) and Ian Abrahams (Tottenham Hotspur v Stoke City, R4). Lastly Ian Danter commentated on the penalty shootout at the end of the Sevilla v Benfica UEFA Europa League Final. None of these games have been counted in any of my statistics.

With that cleared up, here goes with this season's list…

Presenters:

Mark Saggers - 87 games
Adrian Durham - 39
Ian Danter - 9
Dan Lobb - 5
Georgie Bingham - 1
Danny Kelly - 1

Commentators:

Sam Matterface - 89
Nigel Adderley - 27
Andrew McKenna - 10
Nigel Pearson - 7
Jim Proudfoot - 4
Ian Danter - 2
Gary Taphouse - 2
John Roder - 1

Co-commentators:

Stan Collymore - 73
Michael Gray - 14
Alvin Martin - 14
Ray Parlour - 14
Ray Houghton - 10
Stuart Pearce - 8
Matt Holland - 5
Danny Higginbotham - 2
Micky Quinn - 2
Clive Allen - 1
Craig Brown - 1

You may or may not notice that the co-commentator count adds up to 144 in total. This is because there were two games - the England v Scotland international friendly with Sam Matterface, Stan Collymore and Craig Brown and the Arsenal v Tottenham Hotspur FA Cup Third Round tie with Nigel Pearson, Ray Parlour and Clive Allen - where they decided to use two co-commentators.

Pitchside reporters:

Ian Abrahams - 11
Graham Courtney - 11
Dom McGuinness - 8
Graham Beecroft - 5
Ian Danter - 5
Mike Bovill - 3
Tony Incenzo - 3
Warren Haughton - 2
John Anderson - 1
Alan Biggs - 1
Roger Hughes - 1
Dave Rowe - 1

The pitchside reporter total amounts to 52 games, which is just over a third of their 142 commentary games. This is a considerable reduction on last season, where only 32 of their live games did not have someone working in a pitchside reporting capacity, and reflects how talkSPORT have largely done away with this practice on most routine matches in the Premier League and the domestic cups.

As always regarding the statistics related to the presenters, those who hosted more than one game within the same programme have been counted as presenting the number of live games they fronted that day.

To give you a comparison of this season's talkSPORT commentary statistics with those from the 2012/13 season, obviously the biggest change has come in the presenters' category. The pre-season decision to swap Georgie Bingham with Mark Saggers as the presenter of Sunday Exclusive and vice versa on the Weekend Sports Breakfast has massively swelled Saggers' numbers (he is now both their regular midweek and Sunday afternoon live football host), with Georgie only having presented one of the Premier League Asia Trophy games in pre-season. Sunday Exclusive saw a couple of other significant changes this season, one being its start time getting pushed back to 1pm to accommodate The Warm Up, the other being that Saggers now hosts the programme from the ground staging (one of) the live game(s) rather than in the studio with a pundit as Georgie and previously Alan Brazil had done during the show's first three seasons. As for the other presenters, Adrian Durham saw a slight increase in his live games, Ian Danter and Danny Kelly both had a fair decrease while Dan Lobb replaced Richard Keys in getting a handful of hosting opportunities this season.

On the commentary front, Sam Matterface and Nigel Adderley were still very much talkSPORT's number one and two commentators respectively with both seeing a slight increase on last season's totals. So did Nigel Pearson, although he has been supplanted as their third most prominent commentator by Andrew McKenna, who did his first few football commentaries this season after impressing as a rugby union commentator during last summer's British & Irish Lions tour of Australia. This season also saw the arrival of Gary Taphouse and the return of Jim Proudfoot, while John Roder did ten fewer full commentaries than he did last term. Co-commentary wise, Stan Collymore is still very much number one and he also saw a slight increase on his 2012/13 total. Micky Gray saw a ten-game increase on last term to put him dead level with Alvin Martin and Ray Parlour, both of whom saw a slight fall on their 12/13 totals as did Ray Houghton. Matt Holland and Micky Quinn saw single game rises, Stuart Pearce, Danny Higginbotham, Clive Allen and Craig Brown all debuted while Andy Gray and Jason Cundy weren't involved in their live coverage.

In conclusion, here is how talkSPORT covered the numerous finals they did commentaries on this season:

FA Community Shield - Mark Saggers presented from Wembley Stadium, Sam Matterface and Ray Parlour commentated with Ian Abrahams at pitchside.

Capital One Cup Final - Mark Saggers and Michael Gray presented from Wembley Stadium, Sam Matterface and Stan Collymore commentated with Ian Danter at pitchside and reporting from Wembley Way in the build-up with Matt Holland.

FA Cup Final - Mark Saggers, Michael Gray and Ian Ashbee presented from Wembley Stadium, Sam Matterface and Stan Collymore commentated with Ian Abrahams at pitchside and on Wembley Way in the build-up and Ian Danter reporting from the Hilton Hotel outside Wembley.

Championship Play-Off Final - Adrian Durham, Michael Gray and Chris Powell presented from Wembley Stadium, Sam Matterface and Stuart Pearce commentated with Ian Abrahams at pitchside and Tony Incenzo also reporting.

UEFA Champions League Final - Ian Danter presented from the studio, Nigel Adderley and Matt Holland commentated with Graham Courtney reporting from Lisbon and Gaizka Mendieta discussing the fan reaction.

League One Play-Off Final - Ian Danter presented from Wembley Stadium, Jim Proudfoot and Alvin Martin commentated with Ian Abrahams at pitchside.

Ian Abrahams reported on the UEFA Super Cup, Johnstone's Paint Trophy Final and the League Two Play-Off Final, while Ian Danter reported on the UEFA Europa League Final, with him commentating on the penalty shootout in that as well. talkSPORT didn't have reporters covering the Scottish Cup Final, the Scottish League Cup Final or the Conference Play-Off Final.

Excellent work The Difference! Be interesting to see what happens with the commentators next season when Jim P returns full time, if Sam is staying then I wonder how the matches will be divided and I guess that will be bad news for Nigel Adderley.

FIFA World Cup 2014 - BBC Radio 5 Live

Thursday 12 June
Brazil v Croatia - John Murray and Chris Waddle

Friday 13 June
Mexico v Cameroon - Darren Fletcher and Robbie Savage
Spain v Netherlands - Conor McNamara and Ally McCoist
Chile v Australia - Ian Brown

Saturday 14 June
Colombia v Greece - Jonathan Overend and Pat Nevin
Uruguay v Costa Rica - Alistair Bruce-Ball and Brad Friedel
England v Italy - Mike Ingham, Alan Green and Danny Mills

Sunday 15 June
Switzerland v Ecuador - Ian Brown
France v Honduras - Conor McNamara and Pat Nevin
Argentina v Bosnia-Hercegovina - John Murray and Chris Waddle

Monday 16 June
Germany v Portugal - Darren Fletcher and Ally McCoist
Iran v Nigeria - Jonathan Overend and Pat Nevin
Ghana v USA - Alistair Bruce-Ball and Jason Roberts

Tuesday 17 June
Belgium v Algeria - Conor McNamara and Danny Mills
Brazil v Mexico - Alan Green and Brad Friedel
Russia v South Korea - Ian Brown

Wednesday 18 June
Australia v Netherlands - Alistair Bruce-Ball and Robbie Savage
Spain v Chile - John Murray and Ally McCoist
Cameroon v Croatia - Ian Brown

Thursday 19 June
Colombia v Ivory Coast - Conor McNamara and Kevin Kilbane
Uruguay v England - Mike Ingham, Alan Green and Chris Waddle
Japan v Greece - no commentary on 5 live

Friday 20 June
Italy v Costa Rica - Darren Fletcher and Jason Roberts
Switzerland v France - Simon Brotherton and Pat Nevin
Honduras v Ecuador - ?

BBC WM

Wednesday 21st May

BBC WM Sport with Richard Wilford

Elite League Speedway
Richard Wilford: Birmingham Brummies v Eastbourne Eagles (Live commentary on DAB and Online)

Women's Super League
Rob Gurney: Arsenal v Birmingham (Updates)

Saturday 24th May

Summer Saturday with Adam Bridge Live from the Mailbox studios

EFA European Under-19 Championship Elite Qualifying Round
Rob Gurney: England v Macedonia (Live updates from the Bank's Stadium)

BBC WM this Season

Live FM Commentators: Mark Regan 50, Mike Taylor 19, Richard Wilford 18, Rob Gurney 17, Tom Marlow 1, Steve Hermon 1.

Live FM Presenters: Paul Franks 41, Mark Regan 14, Daz Hale 12, Richard Wilford 21, Mike Taylor 9, Rob Gurney 8

Live FM Commentaries: Aston Villa 24, West Bromwich Albion 28, Birmingham City 21, Wolverhampton Wanderers 23, Walsall 12, Tamworth 2

LiveDABCommentators: Mark Regan 2, Mike Taylor 24, Richard Wilford 11, Rob Gurney 6, Tom Marlow 8, Steve Hermon 9.

Live DAB Presenters: Richard Wilford 2, Daz Hale 7, Paul Franks 2, Adrian Goldberg 2.

Live DAB Commentaries: Aston Villa 1, West Bromwich Albion 5, Birmingham City 29, Wolverhampton Wanderers 28.

Updates Only: Mark Regan 1, Mike Taylor 4, Richard Wilford 6, Rob Gurney 24, Tom Marlow 34, Steve Hermon 10, Andrew Dawkins 5, Jonny Palmer 4, Richie Anderson 2

Aston Villa
Mark Regan 16
Richard Wilford 4
Mike Taylor 2
Rob Gurney 11
Tom Marlow 4
Steve Hermon 2
Jonny Palmer 1

West Bromwich Albion
Mark Regan 18
Richard Wilford
Mike Taylor 1
Rob Gurney 16
Tom Marlow 2
Steve Hermon 2

Birmingham City
Mark Regan 8
Richard Wilford 24
Mike Taylor 3
Rob Gurney 6
Tom Marlow 7
Steve Hermon 3
Andrew Dawkins 1

Wolverhampton Wanderers
Mark Regan 7
Richard Wilford 1
Mike Taylor 35
Rob Gurney 1
Tom Marlow 1
Steve Hermon 6

Walsall
Mark Regan 3
Richard Wilford 5
Mike Taylor 4
Rob Gurney 10
Tom Marlow 22
Steve Hermon 4
Jonny Palmer 1
Andrew Dawkins 2

Great work on the detailed BBC WM statistics Connor, thank you for going to the effort to put them together.

As someone who has been a regular WM Sport listener for many years (although I haven't listened as much as I usually would this season, partially due to being outside of the region much of the time and also in no small part due to the excellent job you have done in compiling all of the details on here), it's good to get confirmation about a few trends that I suspected to be the case.

It's no surprise to see that Mark Regan is by far and away WM's most prominent live match commentator for games on 95.6FM - what with him commentating on the main Saturday 3pm commentary game almost every weekend - but it's interesting to see that the FM commentaries are then shared out fairly equally between their other three long-standing commentators Mike Taylor, Richard Wilford and Rob Gurney.

What I hadn't noticed to have emerged as a trend though was how Mike Taylor seems to have become their most prominent commentator on DAB opt-out commentaries, Richard Wilford has become their main midweek WM Sport presenter and co-commentator (Paul Franks has long been in this role on Saturday 3pm games with Daz Hale and Mark Regan doing most Sunday games) and that Rob Gurney has primarily been a reporter this season.

Interesting to see how Tom Marlow has become their main reporter on non-FM/DAB commentary games, chiefly those involving Walsall, taking over from Andrew Dawkins who had held that role for as long as I can remember. From searching his name on this thread, I note that "Long Distance Dawks" has not covered a game for BBC WM since the first third of the season and that over the Christmas period he commentated on a couple of Burton Albion games for BBC Radio Derby in the absence of Charles Collins. We don't have a contributor who regularly updates Radio Derby, but if anyone who reads this thread has some knowledge of their sports coverage, I'd be interested to know if Dawkins has become a regular on there covering the Brewers. I think I'm right in saying that Dawkins is responsible for writing many of the Midlands news and sports stories that appear on the BBC website and their television text service (formerly Ceefax), so he'll still be working at The Mailbox during the week.

One thing that was mentioned at the start of the season which seems to have proved to be partially true is that WM would assign their commentators and reporters individual clubs to cover. Your club-by-club stats show that Richard Wilford has primarily covered Birmingham City, Mike Taylor was with Wolverhampton Wanderers and Tom Marlow followed Walsall, although the games involving their two Premier League clubs in Aston Villa and West Bromwich Albion were fairly equally divided between Mark Regan and Rob Gurney.

Out of interest, how are you totting up those totals? I take it it is on the basis of all matches rather than just commentary ones, but are derby games (of which there were five this season, two Villa v Albion games and three Walsall v Wolves matches) counted twice? A small point but you missed out typing the number of Albion games Richard Wilford has covered this season (not to say that my talkSPORT commentary statistics post was faultless, I've no idea how that smilie got in at the start of my first sentence!).

I haven't been keeping similar statistics on Free Radio 80s' The Goalzone football commentaries this season, but since Steve Hermon left Orion Media to join BBC WM's news and sport team last summer it's been pretty clear what their commentary pecking order has been. As their long-serving lead presenter Tom Ross is overwhelmingly their main commentator, with midweek producer and sports newsreader Chris Coles very much his number two. Mikey Burrows - who is primarily employed by Sky Sports News Radio in Leeds - is usually their third choice commentator on Saturday afternoons and occasionally in midweek. On days when there have been four commentary matches this season, they've called upon Olly Wilson, Nathan Alleyne and Jack Woodward (the latter being of AVTV with these commentaries being a simulcast of Aston Villa's online service). Unlike BBC WM, The Goalzone uses ex-pros as co-commentators with Pat Heard (Aston Villa), Kevan Broadhurst (Birmingham City), Tony 'Bomber' Brown (West Bromwich Albion) and Andy Thompson (Wolverhampton Wanderers) being their regulars.

Glad you liked the talkSPORT statistics Shaun, thanks for the kind words. I'm looking forward to reading your BBC Radio 5 Live commentary statistics should you have been compiling them this season.

Wednesday 28th May - talkSPORT

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

International Friendly
Nigeria v Scotland - Geoff Peters

Rugby Union: Championship Play-Off Final First Leg
London Welsh v Bristol - Russell Hargreaves

Cricket: Third One-Day International
England v Sri Lanka - Guy Swindells

Tennis: French Open
Stade Roland Garros - Lisa O'Sullivan

Yesterday, Colin Murray, Perry Groves, Michael Gray and talkSPORT's England correspondent Ian Danter presented a special Colin Murray & Friends show from St George's Park in Burton, where the England squad were training.

I mentioned on here the other day how Kate Partridge, who up until recently was a sports newsreader on RT, the Kremlin-funded Russian rolling news channel which is available on Freeview, had been on talkSPORT reading weekend sports bulletins and on Monday she was reporting on the French Open tennis for them. RT seem to have discontinued their sports bulletins since the Sochi Winter Olympics, so their old sports presenters must be either looking for different roles on the channel or work elsewhere. I see that Richard van Poortvliet is now a reporter and blogger for UEFA.com and ex-Guardian journalist and talkSPORT regular Matt Scott's Inside World Football, I've heard him on the former's Champions League Matchday Live radio show; while Alexey Yaroshevsky and Michael Kravchenko are sometimes called upon by talkSPORT as correspondents on various Eastern European sports stories (although both still work at RT, I think the former is now their social media man). Paul Scott, who was a football presenter, commentator and reporter on BBC Radio Solent, Radio 5 Live and The Football League Show until he moved to Moscow and RT two years ago, is still with the channel having moved from doing sports bulletins to becoming one of their main news presenters. Not sure if that is of great interest to anyone on here but I thought I'd mention it anyway!

Where has Ally McCoist come from? Has he replaced Pulis?

Alan Green and John Murray don't seem to be doing all that much really! Is that 2 games without commentary? Poor.

The schedules aren't 100% yet, there's often errors. 5Live have already said their doing every game.

BBC Radio Scotland, 28/5/14

Richard Gordon presenting Sportsound from Craven Cottage on 810MW, with Richard Wilson in Glasgow.

International Friendly
Nigeria v Scotland (8pm) - John Barnes and Willie Miller (commentary) with Chick Young pitchside

[i]UEFA Euro U-21 qualifier[i]
Scotland U-21 v Netherlands U-12 - Charlie Mann

Scottish Women's League Cup
Hibernian v Glasgow City - Paul Mitchell

This was BBC Radio Scotland's last commentary of the season. I'll try and find the time to collate my stats, but one thing that's clear is the vast majority of commentaries were by Liam McLeod, Rob Maclean or John Barnes - the latter generally taking centre-stage when the other two were busy with TV commitments.

And yet they still scored six

Also John Hartson doesn't seem to have any games? I wonder if he could be offtube with Brown? If he's not working for another broadcaster it seems odd Friedel isn't doing the USA game!

5 Live - 28.5.14

Nigeria v Scotland - Roddy Forsyth, Alex McLeish and Alistair Bruce-Ball (commentary)

Why did 5live deem this game worthy of 2 commentators? Never mind a conmentairy game?

There is no logic to it whatsoever, back when the2 commentary team was axed, the 5live controller was AVK, and he said " a tiny % of the biggest games will still get 2 commentators" yet throughout this season we have had 2 commentators at regular premiership matches, yet not at Champions League semi finals!

I would like to see an explanation for this!

The reason why Radio 5 Live don't (and shouldn't) use two lead qualifiers for UEFA Champions League games that are played outside of the UK other than the final is quite simple - it obviously costs that bit more to send an extra person out to a game played in continental Europe in terms of flights, hotels etc than it would to send a secondary commentator to game staged domestically. So that is a very sensible and straight forward saving for the BBC to make if they are looking to cut their costs.

As for why Radio 5 Live operated a three-person commentary team for the Nigeria v Scotland match, in Roddy Forysth you have their Scottish football correspondent who would have been at the game anyway due to having the equivalent role at The Daily Telegraph. Radio 5 Live probably wanted a familiar, Scottish lead commentary voice as part of their team, although I notice from Shaun's post that he was doing the opening leg of each half, meaning he'd have had ample time to write his match report ahead of his print deadline, which he wouldn't have had if he was doing the full 90 minutes. Therefore I don't think having this set-up here is particular odd.

With thanks to Hayden for a link he highlighted in his post in the "Best Radio Double Act" thread on here when the George Gavin and Tom Ross pairing on BRMB in the late 1980s and early 1990s were being discussed, I managed to find a couple of clips of BRMB Sport with Tony Butler from around 30 years ago now.

I know we have a few people who like to keep archives of this kind of thing (IanFergus and RobinCarmody to name but two) on here, so I thought I would document what they did back then. Hope this is of interest to some!

Monday 2nd May 1983

Tony Butler presented BRMB Sport from the studio

Division One
Birmingham City v Brighton & Hove Albion - Roger Harding
Everton v Coventry City - George Gavin
West Bromwich Albion v Norwich City - Tony Trethewey

Division Two
Charlton Athletic v Wolverhampton Wanderers - Peter Hayter

Bowls from the Division 4 Championship in Ward End - Mike Wakelam
Transatlantic racing from Brands Hatch - Patrick Russell

Aston Villa were visiting Swansea City in Division One and Walsall hosted Plymouth Argyle in Division Three that Bank Holiday Monday, but both matches were evening kick-offs thus weren't included in the programme.

Tuesday 7th February 1984

Tony Butler presented BRMB Sport from the studio

Milk Cup Semi-Final First Leg
Liverpool v Walsall - George Gavin (part commentary)

Division One
Birmingham City v Manchester United - Tony Trethewey

A second clip from that night included BBC Radio 2's full-time reports on the two games above, with Alan Green reporting from Anfield and Pat Murphy at St Andrew's.

With thanks to this excellent webpage - http://www.mds975.co.uk/Content/brmb-audio.html - for all of the information above. If you want to hear said clips from those days, scroll down about a third of the way down the page and the bit with the Butler clips is headed "That's the name of the game. Can't be bad." There's also an audio file of George Gavin hosting BRMB Sport from Saturday 27th January 1990 with Tom Ross reporting on Aston Villa's 6-0 win over Port Vale in the FA Cup Fourth Round, as well as plenty of clips from Football Phone-Ins with George and Tom from that year. Definitely worth a click if you like a bit of sports radio nostalgia.

Friday 30th May - talkSPORT

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

International Friendly
England v Peru - Jim Proudfoot and Stan Collymore (8pm commentary), with Ian Danter at pitchside

Tennis: French Open
Stade Roland Garros - Lisa O'Sullivan

Between 4-7pm, Adrian Durham and Alvin Martin presented Drive Time from Wembley Way. Ian Abrahams was their man talking to the England fans and people who had attended the Carl Froch v George Groves II weigh-in.

Not sure if talkSPORT are planning to have a reporter covering Uruguay v Northern Ireland later on - I will post details if they do. No Richard Keys and Andy Gray tonight due to the England friendly commentary, I guess next Friday's Kick Off will be their last talkSPORT show before they take their annual summer break from the station.


I meant to write commentators here, obviously. Not quite sure why I confused that word with qualifiers!

5Live

Mark Pougatch at Wembley

Mike Ingham, Alan Green & Danny Mills

Slightly surprised Alan has turned up to this and he's not on a pre WC break. I'll doubt he'll be in US though for the other 2 friendlies

Have talksport announced their World Cup team yet??

Officially, no.

But their commentators will be Jim Proudfoot, Alan Parry, Gary Taphouse, Nigel Pearson, John Anderson and Andrew McKenna. Ian Danter is England reporter.

To add to 4-4-2 post, these are the confirmed members of talkSPORT's 2014 World Cup team that we know so far:

Presenters (Live matches): Mark Saggers, Adrian Durham, Ian Danter

Presenters (Other programmes): Alan Brazil (Sports Breakfast - at least during the early stages of the tournament), Darren Gough (co-hosting Drive Time with Durham)

Commentators: Jim Proudfoot, Andrew McKenna, Gary Taphouse, Alan Parry, Nigel Pearson and John Anderson

Co-commentators: Stan Collymore (primarily with Proudfoot), Stuart Pearce (with McKenna), Ray Parlour (presumably with Taphouse) plus at least 2/3 others to be confirmed

Reporters: Ian Danter (England camp), Ian Abrahams (man with the fans)

Producers: Mike Bovill, Jon Norman, Laurie Palacio

Mark Saggers mentioned last night at the end of talkSPORT's commentary on England v Peru that Laurie Palacio was producing their commentary and would be joining Jim, Stan and Dants in Miami for England's two friendlies there. Saggers will be hosting those games from talkSPORT Towers in London before heading out to Brazil.

Friday 30th May - talkSPORT (continued)

The Sports Bar with Andy Goldstein and Bobby Gould, followed by Extra Time with Matt Forde

International Friendly
Uruguay v Northern Ireland - Graham Courtney

As for this afternoon:

Saturday 31st May - talkSPORT

George Bingham presenting Saturday Scoreboard from Twickenham alongside Neil Back

Rugby Union: Aviva Premiership Final
Saracens v Northampton Saints - Russell Hargreaves and Mike Tindall (3pm commentary), with Mike Bovill producing

Cricket: Fourth One-Day International
England v Sri Lanka - Guy Swindells, with Jack Bannister to give a close-of-play summary

Tennis: French Open
Stade Roland Garros - Lisa O'Sullivan

talkSPORT had been advertising Brian Moore as being part of their commentary team at the Premiership Final on the trailer they have been running this week, yet he's actually at Twickenham as part of BBC Radio 5 Live's team.

Do we stick with this thread for the WC or go to the WC one to list commentators?

Saturday 31st May - talkSPORT (continued)

Adrian Durham presented World Cup Clash of the Titans alongside Alvin Martin, Ray Houghton and Gabriele Marcotti (pre-recorded special), followed by Football First with Nat Coombs and Martin Allen

International Friendly
Italy v Republic of Ireland - Andrew McKenna

Boxing: IBF & WBA Super Middleweight Championship Match
Carl Froch v George Groves - Dom McGuinness, with Warren Haughton conducting ringside interviews

4-4-2 has already started a specific thread for World Cup coverage: http://forums.digitalspy.co.uk/showthread.php?t=1961091. I'll be posting in there once the tournament gets under way.