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Old 01-06-2014, 09:38
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There have now been a few amendments, in bold:

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 (UPDATED: Conor McNamara and Tony Pulis)
Chile v Australia - Ian Brown (UPDATED: Ian Brown and John Hartson)

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 (UPDATED: Darren Fletcher and Tony Pulis)
Iran v Nigeria - Jonathan Overend and Pat Nevin (UPDATED: Jonathan Overend and Chris Waddle)
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 (UPDATED: Ian Brown and John Hartson)

Wednesday 18 June
Australia v Netherlands - Alistair Bruce-Ball and Robbie Savage
Spain v Chile - John Murray and Ally McCoist (UPDATED: John Murray and Tony Pulis)
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 (10pm 606; 12am Up All Night)

Friday 20 June
Italy v Costa Rica - Darren Fletcher and Jason Roberts
Switzerland v France - Simon Brotherton and Pat Nevin
Honduras v Ecuador - ? (UPDATED: Ian Brown and John Hartson)
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Old 01-06-2014, 10:35
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I still find it a bit odd that there's no Japan/Greece commentary!
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Old 01-06-2014, 11:42
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Is McCoist not going now?
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Old 01-06-2014, 17:51
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Is McCoist not going now?
I don't think he was ever down to go, it looks like a very random misprint somewhere
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Old 01-06-2014, 18:48
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Women's FA Cup Final

Alastair Bruce-Ball and Jen O'Neill

Jenny Gow presented

Good of 5Live to put this on with it being on BBC2 too, good coverage
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Old 01-06-2014, 19:20
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I still find it a bit odd that there's no Japan/Greece commentary!
Or seemingly Japan v Ivory Coast which is at 2am after England v Italy on 14th.
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Old 03-06-2014, 21:45
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Mike Ingham is in Miami with Ian Dennis (I'm guessing they are the 2 comms)

They had a tribute night last night for Mike with his final tournament coming up.

Fully deserved.
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Old 04-06-2014, 18:05
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It's Green, Ingham & Mills tonight

I'm surprised they have sent those 2 comms plus Ian Dennis to Miami, I tend to think it's 1 too many
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Old 04-06-2014, 20:31
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It's Green, Ingham & Mills tonight

I'm surprised they have sent those 2 comms plus Ian Dennis to Miami, I tend to think it's 1 too many
With it being a World Cup friendly, I think the amount of 5live personnel is justified, however their next match after Ecuador is on the 7th,so I assume there will be a small BBC contingent staying in American Hotels for the next few days. Am I right in saying the following BBC staff will be at both friendlies?

Alan Green
Mike Ingham
Danny Mills
Ian Dennis
Phil Wye
Phil McNulty
Gabby Logan ( Possibly for BBC TV) I know they have not got the rights, however this is a World Cup friendly, and she is the roving reporter for BBC TV.
Others?

Another interesting thought, the last Friendly for England is on the 7th, their first match at the WC is on the 14th, are the BBC going to fly al their staff back home from Miami, and than fly them out after a few days this time to Brazil?

Will it be more cost effective keeping them in America, and flying from there?

I have no ideas of the costs, so sorry if that is a stupid Question lol.
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Old 04-06-2014, 20:36
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I doubt Gabby Logan is in Miami as BBC have no TV rights for these 2 games, there's a BBC News person there though.

They won't fly home, it's just not worth it
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Old 04-06-2014, 20:42
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That might be another reason why they have got Ingham, Green, Mills and Ian Dennis there, maybe it is more cost effective in having all their England commentary personnel in 1 place, instead of leaving Ian Dennis out, and flying him out at a later date?
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Old 05-06-2014, 00:18
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I see there's a 5 Live programme late Saturday evening looking back on their coverage etc. of the 2002 World Cup. Should be interesting. Is this just a one-off or have there been any others?
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Old 05-06-2014, 08:57
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I doubt Gabby Logan is in Miami as BBC have no TV rights for these 2 games, there's a BBC News person there though.

They won't fly home, it's just not worth it
Gabby is actually in Rome at the moment as she's presenting the athletics on the Beeb tonight. Presumably she will fly from there to Brazil.

I see there's a 5 Live programme late Saturday evening looking back on their coverage etc. of the 2002 World Cup. Should be interesting. Is this just a one-off or have there been any others?
It's a repeat, not that I can remember when from.
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Old 07-06-2014, 18:41
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It's Green, Ingham & Mills tonight
Same again tonight

Will Perry presenting
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Old 07-06-2014, 20:39
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Who is 5lives no1 summariser, Mills or Waddle?
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Old 08-06-2014, 00:38
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Gabby is actually in Rome at the moment as she's presenting the athletics on the Beeb tonight. Presumably she will fly from there to Brazil.



It's a repeat, not that I can remember when from.
Oh well it turns out they're actually having the 1990 one tonight for some reason. Disappointing.
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Old 08-06-2014, 14:17
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BBC Radio 5 Live - 2013/2014

5 Live broadcast 223 commentaries

Premier League 120
Football League 15
FA Cup 28 *
League Cup 12
Community Shield 1
Champions League 30
Europa League 2 *
Internationals 12
Scottish Cup 2
Womens FA Cup 1

*includes a match that started on Sports Extra and finished on 5 Live. So the same match isn't counted twice they won't appear in the Sports Extra stats.

Those matches were commentated on by

John Murray 63
Alan Green 57
Mike Ingham 49
Ian Dennis 39
Conor McNamara 31
Alistair Bruce-Ball 14
Ian Brown 7
Roddy Forsyth, Guy Mowbray, Steve Wilson 3
Steve Bower 2
John Motson, Jonathan Pearce, Dave Woods 1

The summarisers were

Danny Mills 26
Kevin Kilbane 23
Steve Claridge 22
Chris Waddle 20
Pat Nevin 18
John Hartson 17
Robbie Savage 16
Mark Lawrenson 13
David Pleat 10
Clive Allen, Jimmy Armfield 9
Martin Keown 8
Nigel Spackman 6
Tony Pulis, Jason Roberts 4
Jim Beglin 3
Phil Brown, Kevin Keen, Craig Levein, Graham Taylor 2
Tim Flowers, Graeme Le Saux, Mark McGee, Alex McLeish, Jen O'Neil, Kevin Ratcliffe, Dean Saunders 1


-Dave Woods commentated on 5 Live's first match of the season and then didn't do another.
-Steve Bower made his 5 Live commentary debut.
-John Motson's single commentary was his lowest tally since he started doing matches for the station.
-Simon Brotherton and Mike Sewell didn't commentate for 5 Live at all for the first time in many seasons.
-51 of the 223 commentaries had the traditional 2 main commentators. Mike Ingham was involved of 43 of those, with his retirement it seems likely that an even greater majority of matches will have the single commentator next season.


BBC Radio 5 Live Sports Extra 2013/2014

I have not tracked simulcasts of local coverage or the womens commentaries which are still ongoing as their season continues.

5 Live Sports Extra produced 27 commentaries of their own this season

Premier League 9
Championship 4
FA Cup 6
League Cup 6
Under 21 Internationals 2 (1 of which I don't have the details for)

The commentators were

Ian Brown, Alistair Bruce-Ball 5
Jonathan Overend 4
Conor McNamara 3
John Acres, John Murray, Dave Woods 2
Steve Bower, Mike Sewell, Paul Walker 1

Summarisers

Danny Higginbotham 5
Steve Claridge 3
John Hartson, Kevin Kilbane, Dean Saunders 2
Greg Abbot, Clive Allen, Jimmy Armfield, Mark Bright, Phil Brown, Kevin Gallacher, Dean Kiely, David Pleat, Nigel Spackman, Kit Symons, Graham Taylor, Chris Waddle 1


Despite doing some commentaries for Sports Extra Jonathan Overend has yet to do one for 5 Live, this means he will join Jonathan Pearce (2002) and Arlo White (2010) in doing his first 5 Live football commentary at a World Cup.
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Old 08-06-2014, 14:37
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Thanks shaun, very interesting

So Mike only did 6 games on his own so his retirement IMO, simply means those games will become solo games

Phil Wye said on Twitter a while back that the major finals & England games have had permission to have 2 commentators
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Old 08-06-2014, 14:52
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Thanks Shaun, very interesting! Is there a link to the season befores stats? Shocking to see how far Lawro has fell down the pecking order!
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Old 08-06-2014, 15:08
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BBC Radio 5 Live - 2013/2014

5 Live broadcast 223 commentaries

Premier League 120
Football League 15
FA Cup 28 *
League Cup 12
Community Shield 1
Champions League 30
Europa League 2 *
Internationals 12
Scottish Cup 2
Womens FA Cup 1

*includes a match that started on Sports Extra and finished on 5 Live. So the same match isn't counted twice they won't appear in the Sports Extra stats.

Those matches were commentated on by

John Murray 63
Alan Green 57
Mike Ingham 49
Ian Dennis 39
Conor McNamara 31
Alistair Bruce-Ball 14
Ian Brown 7
Roddy Forsyth, Guy Mowbray, Steve Wilson 3
Steve Bower 2
John Motson, Jonathan Pearce, Dave Woods 1

The summarisers were

Danny Mills 26
Kevin Kilbane 23
Steve Claridge 22
Chris Waddle 20
Pat Nevin 18
John Hartson 17
Robbie Savage 16
Mark Lawrenson 13
David Pleat 10
Clive Allen, Jimmy Armfield 9
Martin Keown 8
Nigel Spackman 6
Tony Pulis, Jason Roberts 4
Jim Beglin 3
Phil Brown, Kevin Keen, Craig Levein, Graham Taylor 2
Tim Flowers, Graeme Le Saux, Mark McGee, Alex McLeish, Jen O'Neil, Kevin Ratcliffe, Dean Saunders 1


-Dave Woods commentated on 5 Live's first match of the season and then didn't do another.
-Steve Bower made his 5 Live commentary debut.
-John Motson's single commentary was his lowest tally since he started doing matches for the station.
-Simon Brotherton and Mike Sewell didn't commentate for 5 Live at all for the first time in many seasons.
-51 of the 223 commentaries had the traditional 2 main commentators. Mike Ingham was involved of 43 of those, with his retirement it seems likely that an even greater majority of matches will have the single commentator next season.


BBC Radio 5 Live Sports Extra 2013/2014

I have not tracked simulcasts of local coverage or the womens commentaries which are still ongoing as their season continues.

5 Live Sports Extra produced 27 commentaries of their own this season

Premier League 9
Championship 4
FA Cup 6
League Cup 6
Under 21 Internationals 2 (1 of which I don't have the details for)

The commentators were

Ian Brown, Alistair Bruce-Ball 5
Jonathan Overend 4
Conor McNamara 3
John Acres, John Murray, Dave Woods 2
Steve Bower, Mike Sewell, Paul Walker 1

Summarisers

Danny Higginbotham 5
Steve Claridge 3
John Hartson, Kevin Kilbane, Dean Saunders 2
Greg Abbot, Clive Allen, Jimmy Armfield, Mark Bright, Phil Brown, Kevin Gallacher, Dean Kiely, David Pleat, Nigel Spackman, Kit Symons, Graham Taylor, Chris Waddle 1


Despite doing some commentaries for Sports Extra Jonathan Overend has yet to do one for 5 Live, this means he will join Jonathan Pearce (2002) and Arlo White (2010) in doing his first 5 Live football commentary at a World Cup.
Comparison ( Source ShaunD)

2012 -2013
5 Live Sports Extra 2012 - 2013

51 commentaries (simulcasts of local coverage not included)

Matches

8 Premier League
30 Football League
5 FA Cup
5 League Cup
2 Internationals
1 Community Shield

Commentators

10 Ian Brown, Alistair Bruce-Ball
08 Mike Sewell
06 John Acres
04 David Oates
03 Adam Pope
02 Conor McNamara, Dave Woods, Paul Walker, Seth Bennett
01 Alastair Durden, Darren Fletcher, Jacqui Oatley, John Murray, Simon Brotherton

Summarisers

Clive Allen 1; Craig Burley 1; Danny Higginbotham 1; Dean Ashton 1; Dean Kiely 5; Dion Dublin 1; Jimmy Armfield 4; Keith Andrews 2; Kevin Gallacher 7; Kevin Kilbane 1; Kevin Radcliffe 1; Kit Symons 1; Leroy Rosenior 1; Mark Bowen 1; Mark Bright 6; Mark McGee 1; Matt Jackson 1; Michael Gray 1; Nigel Worthington 1; Pat Nevin 2; Paul Jewell 1; Phil Brown 1; Steve Claridge 4; Steve Froggatt 2; Steven Reid 2 & Tim Flowers 1

5 Live 2012 - 2013

232 commentaries

Matches

115 Premier League
27 Football League
32 FA Cup
14 League Cup
19 Champions League
7 Europa League
15 Internationls
2 Scottish FA Cup
1 SPL

Commentators

66 John Murray
58 Alan Green
45 Darren Fletcher
41 Mike Ingham
34 Ian Dennis
32 Conor McNamara
10 Alistair Bruce-Ball
06 Simon Brotherton
05 Ian Brown, John Motson
03 Roddy Forsyth
02 Dave Woods
01 Mike Sewell, Jonathan Pearce

Summarisers

Chris Coleman 3, Clive Allen 3, Craig Brown 2; Craig Burley 8; Craig Levein 2; Danny Mills 24; David Moyes 1; David Pleat 16; Dean Ashton 1; Dean Kiely 3; Dion Dublin 3; Graeme Le Saux 12; Graham Taylor 13; Jan Molby 1; Jason Roberts 1; Jimmy Armfield 7; Joe Jordan 2; John Hartson 2; Kevin Gallacher 3; Kevin Kilbane 14; Mark Bowen 2; Mark Bright 4; Mark Lawrenson 14; Martin Keown 8; Mick McCarthy 2; Nigel Spackman 6; Nigel Worthington 1; Pat Nevin 18; Paul Jewell 2; Peter Reid 1; Phil Brown 12; Robbie Savage 21; Steve Claridge 17 & Steve McLaren 4.

Due to the overlap with the last internationals of the season I've included the 2 commentaries from the Under 21 tournament in the stats.

There were 3 Saturday 3pm PL commentaries in the Autumn that started on Sports Extra and ended on 5 Live. The match, the summariser and the 5 Live commentator are included in the 5 Live stats but the Sports Extra commentator is listed in that section.
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Old 10-06-2014, 08:25
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I've been on holiday for the past week, so managed to miss all of the final full week of pre-World Cup friendlies as they occurred live, but with thanks to talkSPORT Listen Again I can tell you how they covered both of England's matches in Miami - it was basically the team that had been trailed, with Mark Saggers hosting the first game from London and the second one (which went under the Matchday Live banner and had a 105 minute build-up from 8pm) from the station's base in Rio. Here are the details:

Wednesday 4th June - talkSPORT

Mark Saggers presented Kick Off: International Special from London with Stan Collymore at SunLife Stadium, Miami, Florida

International Friendly
Ecuador v England - Jim Proudfoot and Stan Collymore (8pm BST commentary), with Ian Danter at pitchside and Laurie Palacio producing

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

There were no reports on either the Netherlands v Wales or the late night Chile v Northern Ireland friendlies, or on Bristol v London Welsh in the second leg of the rugby union Championship Play-Off Final for that matter (they had carried updates on the first leg a week earlier). They also didn't carry updates on Costa Rica v Republic of Ireland in the early hours of Saturday morning. I doubt they'll have a reporter covering Eire v Portugal on Wednesday morning.

Saturday 7th June - talkSPORT

Mark Saggers presented Matchday Live from Rio de Janeiro alongside Tim Vickery with Stan Collymore at SunLife Stadium, Miami, Florida

International Friendly
England v Honduras - Jim Proudfoot and Stan Collymore (9.45pm BST commentary), with Ian Danter at pitchside and Laurie Palacio producing

Earlier in the day: -

Rugby Union: International Match
New Zealand v England - Russell Hargreaves

Horse Racing: The Derby Meeting
Epsom Downs - Rupert Bell (commentary on the Coronation Cup and The Derby plus The Oaks on Friday)

Tennis: French Open Women's and Men's Singles Finals
Maria Sharapova v Simona Halep (Saturday) and Rafael Nadal v Novak Djokovic (Sunday) - Kate Partridge

Lisa O'Sullivan reported on the French Open for most days of the first two weeks of the tournament, before Kate Partridge took over from Friday's Men's Semi-Finals onwards. Guy Swindells reported on Tuesday's final cricket ODI between England and Sri Lanka, while talkSPORT didn't carry updates on Sunday's Canadian Grand Prix in the F1 with the second half of the race conflicting with a pre-recorded My Sporting Life World Cup Special presented by Ray Stubbs. Ray also anchored Saturday Scoreboard between 2-6pm on the 7th, with Up The League host Geoff Peters deservedly getting the chance to present Sunday Scoreboard in the same timeslot the following day. Finally, Richard Keys and Andy Gray presented their last Friday night Kick Off of the season on the 6th before heading off on their annual summer break from the station. They'll be back in August.

Must add my thanks to Shaun for the excellent Radio 5 Live commentary statistics he has posted, I always find them interesting reading. Great work in compiling them Shaun.

As this post may well be one of, if not the, last post(s) in this thread, I should add in a link to the 2014 World Cup Radio Coverage thread, which can be found here: http://forums.digitalspy.co.uk/showthread.php?t=1961091
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Old 10-06-2014, 18:08
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I think that's this season covered off now!

Great thread and I'd like to thank all contributors
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Old 11-06-2014, 17:27
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They also didn't carry updates on Costa Rica v Republic of Ireland in the early hours of Saturday morning. I doubt they'll have a reporter covering Eire v Portugal on Wednesday morning.
I was wrong.

Wednesday 11th June - talkSPORT (early hours)

Mike Graham presented Extra Time alongside Russell Hargreaves

International Friendly
Republic of Ireland v Portugal - David Brady

In addition, Dave Luddy has been reporting on the AEGON Championships tennis from the Queen's Club during the daytime this week. Not sure why talkSPORT carried updates on Uruguay v Northern Ireland two weeks ago and Republic of Ireland v Portugal this morning, but none of the friendlies involving the Celtic nations last week.

Fair play to talkSPORT for covering this friendly though, as I don't think any of the Irish stations that cover football - RTE Radio, Today FM, Newstalk or one of UTV Radio's local stations in the Republic - will have carried live updates on the game given that it was played in New Jersey and took place overnight. RTP's Antena stations in Portugal did however have commentary on the match, with an on-site commentary team to boot going by what I heard of their coverage through TuneIn.
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Old 14-06-2014, 18:06
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Looks like the season isn't quite over...

BBC Radio Scotland, 14/6/14

Liam McLeod presenting Sportsound on 810MW.

FIFA Women's World Cup qualifier
Scotland v Sweden (5.05pm) - Paul Mitchell and Julie Fleeting (commentary) with Jane Lewis pitchside
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Old 14-06-2014, 21:33
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Looks like the season isn't quite over...
Whilst for the Wales v Turkey Women's World Cup qualifier, Radio Wales had Simon Davies and Gwennan Harries do 'small bursts' of commentary of the game whilst the South Africa v Wales game was at half time.
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