Originally Posted by The Difference:
“Monday 1st September - talkSPORT
Mark Saggers presenting Kick Off: Deadline Day Special alongside Stan Collymore, Jim Proudfoot, Barry Silkman and Mark Langdon from the Racing Post, followed by The Sports Bar with Andy Goldstein and Jason Cundy”
To add a couple of late night details from The Sports Bar to the information I posted last night, Tony Incenzo made an appearance updating Queens Park Rangers' business from outside Loftus Road while Andrew McKenna had returned to covering Arsenal by the time the window closed. Up in Manchester, Ian Abrahams' work at Carrington was done by 7pm and he's now back in London reading this morning's sports news bulletins as per usual.
Jim Proudfoot stuck around as talkSPORT's main studio-based transfer correspondent during The Sports Bar until 11.30pm, with Warren Haughton returning to update any late night movement during the second half of the show.
Originally Posted by jimmylad:
“Whenever I've listened to Hawksbee and Jacobs I've turned off after a few minutes thinking what a load of rubbish. Overall from what I've heard today talkSOPORT's coverage has been decent but no better than 5Live or Sky Sports News so I fail to see how they 'come into their own'. Massive overstatement there.”
For my money, Hawksbee & Jacobs is by far the best show on weekday British radio and has been for many a year - what entertains and amuses is subjective though, so each to their own.
I have long been an advocate of having a national sports radio station in the UK and often feel it comes into its own on big sporting occasions, not just on the final day of football transfer windows but at other times when major sports news stories are breaking, so I don't think saying as much is an overstatement at all. I don't say that as someone who is looking to positively or negatively contrast it against what other media sources were doing yesterday, I'm just judging it on the basis of its own merits with it having been my choice of listening throughout deadline day.
Writing as someone who does not have access to the Sky Sports News television channel, talkSPORT was the only broadcast media platform available to me that was providing rolling coverage of the transfer window throughout the day yesterday. I'm sure BBC Radio 5 Live and the BBC News Channel both did a good job, but I believe the former's coverage didn't start in earnest until 7pm due to that station's broader remit and the latter just had their usual sports bulletins and a couple of special shows. Therefore it was useful to be able to dip in and out of what talkSPORT was doing whenever you wanted, what with its format enabling it to give transfer deadline day constant attention.
