Saturday 6th June - talkSPORT

Sam Matterface presenting UEFA Champions League Final Live from Dublin

UEFA Champions League Final
Juventus v FC Barcelona - Jim Proudfoot and Stuart Pearce (7.45pm commentary)

Earlier...

Ian Danter presented Saturday Scoreboard from Epsom Downs with Andy Brassell (1-3pm) and Chris Perry (3-5pm) in the studio

Horse Racing: The Derby Festival
Epsom Downs - Rupert Bell (including commentary on the Woodcote Stakes at 2.35pm, the Coronation Cup at 3.10pm and The Derby at 4.30pm), with analysis from Lee McKenzie

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


UEFA.com

Rob Daly presenting Champions League Matchday Live alongside Andy Brassell

UEFA Champions League Final
Juventus v FC Barcelona - Richard Kaufman and Andy Brassell (commentary)

Roberto Carlos will be joining the team at half-time. Last week, UEFA.com produced a special Champions League Matchday Live podcast previewing the final that Rob Daly hosted alongside Paul Saffer and Chris Parrott, with Simon Mann, Dan Roebuck and Mark Scott voicing montages looking back on this season's tournament.

Will Perry presenting on 5Live

Seth Bennett is in Barcelona and Steve Crossman is in Turin

Sunday 7th June - talkSPORT

Ian Danter presented Sunday Scoreboard from the studio alongside Martin Allen (3-5pm)

International Friendly
Republic of Ireland v England - Jim Proudfoot and Stan Collymore (1pm commentary)

Tennis: French Open Men's Singles Final
Novak Djokovic v Stanislas Wawrinka - Lisa O'Sullivan

I'll post who (if anyone) is reporting on the Canadian Grand Prix for talkSPORT along with the rest of their non-football details from the past four weeks over in the Radio Sports Commentators and Reporters thread later on.

Sunday 7th June - RTE Radio 1

Sunday Sport presented by Darren Frehill from the Aviva Stadium alongside Pat Fenlon and Jacqui Hurley from Semple Stadium alongside Henry Shefflin and Ken Hogan

International Friendly
Republic of Ireland v England - John Kenny and Brian Kerr (second half commentary), with Siobhan Madigan at pitchside

Hurling: Munster Senior Championship Semi-Final
Cork v Waterford - Pauric Lodge ‏and Cathal Moore (4pm commentary)

Hurling: Leinster Senior Championship Quarter-Finals
Laois v Offaly - Martin Kiely
Westmeath v Wexford - Mike McCartney

Gaelic Football: Ulster Senior Championship Quarter-Final
Derry v Down - Brian Carthy

Horse Racing
The Curragh - Dave Keenan

The RTE website listings were correct - RTE Radio 1 only had second half commentary on today's friendly, with Sunday Sport sticking rigidly to its usual 2-6pm timeslot. Coverage was preceded by an hour-long review of the week programme of all things! I can't imagine a UK station with rights to their national team doing something similar, especially a public service broadcaster with exclusive national radio commentary rights!


Newstalk 106-108FM

Nathan Murphy presented Off The Ball from the Three Dugout at the Aviva Stadium alongside Mark Kinsella and Dan McDonnell from The Irish Independent, with Richie McCormack and Adrian Barry in the studio

International Friendly
Republic of Ireland v England - Nathan Murphy

Gaelic Football: Ulster Senior Championship Quarter-Final
Derry v Down - Dave McIntyre, Kevin Cassidy and Colm Parkinson (2pm commentary)

Hurling: Munster Senior Championship Semi-Final
Cork v Waterford - Oisin Langan and Jamesie O'Connor, with DJ Carey and Brian Hogan providing studio-based analysis

Both the Saturday and Sunday editions of Off The Ball debuted new start times for the foreseeable future this weekend - both start an hour earlier, from 1-6pm on Saturdays and noon-6pm on Sundays.

They had a big panel before today's international but as they don't have commentary rights, from 1pm GAA took priority with their lead Gaelic football commentator Dave McIntyre presenting from Celtic Park in Derry prior to kick-off in Derry v Down and Richie McCormack hosting at half-time. By full-time in the Gaelic football, Murphy had returned to Newstalk's Dublin studio to host the second portion of Off The Ball with McCormack, Barry, Kenny Cunningham and their hurling pundits.

Today FM had Premier League Live presenter Michael McMullan reporting on Republic of Ireland v England during John Duggan's sports news bulletins. Meanwhile, talkSPORT have Graham Courtney reporting on the Canadian Grand Prix.

I'm surprised the friendly wasn't on 2FFM instead of Radio 1 so they could do full uninterupted commentary.

Hang on a minute...I've just checked the RTE Radio Player, it turns out that first half commentary was on RTE 2fm under their Game On strand.

As you'd expect it was the same team as above, with the RTE 2fm broadcast running between 12.50-2pm. I hadn't spotted any mention that they'd be doing the first half on their secondary station on the RTE website, but really should have in retrospect. So apologies for giving an incorrect picture of what RTE Radio did in my previous posts!

Tuesday 9th June - talkSPORT

Drive Time with Adrian Durham and Darren Gough, followed by Georgie Bingham presenting Kick Off alongside Gabriele Marcotti

Women's World Cup Group F
France v England - Warren Haughton

Cricket: First One-Day International
England v New Zealand - Guy Swindells


BBC Radio 5 Live

Caroline Barker presented 5 Live Sport from Moncton Stadium alongside Jen O'Neill

Women's World Cup Group F
France v England - Ian Brown and Rachel Brown-Finnis (6pm BST commentary)

Cricket: First One-Day International
England v New Zealand - Pat Murphy and Alec Stewart

Cricket: County Championship Division One
Yorkshire v Middlesex - Kevin Howells

Good on the BBC for putting commentary on England's opening game of the Women's World Cup on Radio 5 Live. Obviously their hand was forced to a certain extent due to the ODI cricket being on Radio 5 Live Sports Extra today, but I wasn't certain they'd be full 90 minute commentary given that historically they don't like to truncate Drive unless it is deemed absolutely necessary. It was mentioned that Ian and Rachel were doing "studio-based" off-tube commentary (which was also available on the BBC Red Button as an alternative to the BBC Two commentary), although Caroline Barker and Jen O'Neill from She Kicks magazine were on-site in Moncton, New Brunswick.

I really enjoyed the commentary last night. Ian Brown is one of my favourite BBC commentators, knowledgeable and able to convey the excitement of games to the listener. he also made me laugh a couple of times, particularly with his gentle teasing of Rachael Brown over the European championship final she played in goal in when England were, shall we say, well beaten by an excellent German side.
I've noticed before he seems to get a lot out of the co-commentators he works with and last night was no exception.
Brown also mentioned that England's other 2 matches would be on 5Live, at 9 PM this coming Saturday against Mexico and their final group game a week tonight also at 9 PM.

Seems a strange way to do things on 5Live? Having the presenter and guest in the stadium with the commentator and summeirser in the studio, shouldn't that be the other way round?

I agree swansea steve, I love Ian Brown, wish he was higher up the pecking order for the bigger matches, never sure why he has seemed to drop down.

wasn't he ill for a while? I'm sure he was away for at least 1 whole season and he never seems to have had a high profile role since. personal preference I know, but I'd have him above Mcnamara Green and ABB myself.

Only the second half of the game on Saturday will have full commentary on Five Live, they're doing commentary on Northern Ireland's match for the first half.


Not especially, presumably the presenter and pundit will be doing other stuff in Canada, reporting for the various programmes. Whereas Brown-Finnis at least is also punditing on the BBC TV coverage which is being anchored from the UK.

It's a bit like when they used to do the Diamond League live on BBC3 and they would have the presenter and pundit there with a single camera but use a world feed for the commentary. The presenter and pundit could grab people for interviews and so on without the expense of a separate reporter, and no doubt it's cheaper to have reporters there than sort out a fully-fledged commentary.

Yeah I think he was, not sure why he hasn't regained the profile he deserves, I also prefer him to McNamara, Green and ABB although I do like them all.

Thursday 11th June - talkSPORT

Ian Danter presenting Kick Off alongside Stewart Robson

Under-21 International Friendly
England Under-21s v Belarus Under-21s - Ian Abrahams

Dants has been a busy boy - earlier today he was in Watford for the England full team's press conference there.

The talkSPORT.com schedule has been updated to include the station's coverage of England's first game of the UEFA Under-21 Championship against Portugal this time next week. Georgie Bingham will present Kick Off that night with commentary from Jim Proudfoot and Stuart Pearce (who are also commentating on Slovenia v England in Euro 2016 qualifying this Sunday). Whether Jim and Stuart will be talkSPORT's team for all of the England Under-21 games at the tournament remains to be seen, but I'd suggest that the latter is a very strong choice given his experience managing the team.

Why can the presenter of the womens football not commentate as well as present, as local radio commentators do?

Friday 12th June - talkSPORT

Nat Coombs presenting Kick Off alongside Tim Vickery (from Santiago, 8-10pm BST)

UEFA Euro 2016 Qualifying Group B
Wales v Belgium - Ian Danter

Cricket: Second One-Day International
England v New Zealand - Jon Norman, with Jack Bannister providing analysis

Jack Bannister also did do a preview of the Isle of Wight Festival on Hawksbee & Jacobs earlier, and keeping on the cricket theme, Jeremy Coney also made a very funny debut on Clips of the Week! Anyway, pob lwc Cymru.

5Live

Friday
Darren Fletcher preseting
Ian Brown & Robbie Savage on Wales/Belgium

Saturday
Will Perry presenting
Conor McNamara & Pat Nevin on ROI/Scotland
Alistair Bruce-Ball & Danny Wilson on NI/Romania

Sunday
Jonathan Overend presents
Alan Green, John Murray and Martin Keown on Slovenia/England

This might interest some - between 1-3pm today, talkSPORT are broadcasting a documentary titled England: The Golden Generation about the England team of the 2000s. What's notable is that Matt Smith, the soon-to-be-former ITV Sport presenter who will be joining BT Sport next season, has narrated the programme. While Smith has done many presenting shifts on Radio 5 Live in the past, this will be his first appearance on talkSPORT.

The programme has been made by Mark Crossley and David Cameron Walker from the We Are Going Up Football League podcast, who also produced the Liverpool 2005 UEFA Champions League retrospective documentary which aired on the station a few weeks ago. You may know the former for his work on Absolute Radio in the past.

As I think Ian Cleverley mentioned he’d finished for the season, I hope no-one will mind me posting radio Wales coverage details for yesterday.

Wales v Belgium: presented by Ian Hunt from the Cardiff City Stadium with Danny Gabbidon. Commentary from Rob Phillips and Kevin Ratcliffe with Danny chipping in from time to time.
I’d originally started listening to the game on 5Live, but Robbie Savage was doing my head in so I was delighted to find the Radio Wales coverage available via the BBC sport app. Rob Phillips put in a great shift last night and his goal-call was really strong. What a night for Wales.

BBC Radio Scotland Sportsound, 13/6/15

Presented by Richard Gordon from the Aviva Stadium with Tom English and Chick Young.

UEFA Euro 2016 Qualifier - Group D
Republic of Ireland v Scotland (5pm) - Liam McLeod and Willie Miller (commentary)

That's it for 2014/15 on BBC Radio Scotland. But there's not long to wait for 2015/16 to get underway with Aberdeen and St Johnstone in Europa League qualifying action on 2/9 July.

Saturday 13th June - RTE Radio 1

Des Cahill presented Saturday Sport from the Aviva Stadium alongside Kenny Cunningham and Pat Fenlon

UEFA Euro 2016 Qualifying Group D
Republic of Ireland v Scotland - Adrian Eames and Brian Kerr (5pm commentary), with John Kenny at pitchside and Tony O'Donoghue conducting interviews


Newstalk 106-108FM

Ger Gilroy and Nathan Murphy presented Off The Ball from the Three Dugout at the Aviva Stadium alongside (at various intervals) Kevin Kilbane, Kenny Cunningham, Stephen McPhail, Clinton Morrison, Karl Spain and Dan McDonnell from The Irish Independent, with Dave McIntyre hosting from the studio between 4.45pm-7pm

UEFA Euro 2016 Qualifying Group D
Republic of Ireland v Scotland - Nathan Murphy and Clinton Morrison, with Stewie Byrne providing studio-based analysis

Today FM had Premier League Live presenter Michael McMullan reporting on Republic of Ireland v Scotland during Philip Egan's sports news bulletins.

Saturday 13th June - talkSPORT

Ian Danter presented Saturday Scoreboard alongside Tony Cascarino and Dominic Cork, followed by The Transfer Tavern with Nat Coombs and Mark Langdon from the Racing Post and The Season Ticket with Danny Kelly and Shaun Derry

UEFA Euro 2016 Qualifying Group D
Republic of Ireland v Scotland - David Brady

UEFA Euro 2016 Qualifying Group F
Northern Ireland v Romania - Graham Courtney

Women's World Cup Group F
England v Mexico - Warren Haughton

An interesting couple of documentaries made by Crossley and Cameron-Walker in recent months. They also did one based on the ten-year anniversary of Liverpool's Champions League win over AC Milan in 2005.

This is something that, for me, lacks on talkSPORT and should be doing more of. I know they're rather labour-intensive to make compared to a 'normal' show but it adds an extra dimension to programming.

Thanks for the info, I had heard that Matt Smith was joining BT Sport, great news for a fantastic presenter, still can't understand why he isn't ITV's number 1. Do we know what he will be doing at BT?

Seen he has tweeted today is his last day at ITV Sport so I presume any freelance appearances in the future is off the cards.

I'm not going to include the Euro U21s and the Womens World Cup so with the commentary team announced for the England match later today the season is over, therefore here are the BBC National Radio stats...

5 Live - 2014/2015

There was commentary on 234 matches this season. It started on 8th August with Blackburn v Cardiff in the Championship and concluded with Slovenia v England on 14th June.

The commentaries came from the following competitions

Community Shield 1
Premier League 116
Football League 26 (Championship 24, 1 each from Leagues 1 & 2)
FA Cup 33
League Cup 12
Scottish Championship 1
Scottish League Cup 1
Champions League 25
Internationals 19

13 commentators were used on 5 Live

64 John Murray
52 Alan Green
44 Ian Dennis
42 Conor McNamara
21 Ian Brown
18 Alistair Bruce-Ball
5 Steve Bower
4 John Motson
3 Guy Mowbray
2 Simon Brotheron, Roddy Forsyth, Steve Wilson, Dave Woods

27 out of 234 matches used 2 lead commentators incuding all 9 England matches, 2 out of 3 Wales matches, the FA Cup semis and final, the League Cup final, various 'big' PL and CL matches and those involving John Motson.

As usual no clear 'number 1' summariser, with 29 voices in the role (main role only, a guest who occasionally contributes during commentary doesn't count)

28 Pat Nevin
26 Steve Claridge
20 Chris Waddle
18 Danny Mills
17 Kevin Kilbane
16 John Hartson, Robbie Savage
13 Mark Lawrenson, David Pleat
12 Phil Neville
8 Jimmy Armfield
6 Martin Keown
5 Clive Allen, Neil Lennon
4 Jason Roberts
3 Terry Butcher, Jermaine Jenas, Stuart Pearce, Tony Pulis, Graham Taylor
2 Steve Harper, Ian Holloway, Danny Wilson
1 Jim Beglin, Joey Barton, Brad Friedel, Phil Parkinson, Kevin Phillips, Dean Saunders


Sports Extra - 2014/2015

Numbers don't include simulcasts of local coverage or womens football.

Sports Extra produced 28 commentaries from

Premier League 10
Championship 3
FA Cup 9
League Cup 6

Those matches were described by

5 John Acres, Ian Brown, Alistair Bruce-Ball, Mike Sewell
3 Dave Woods
1 Ian Dennis, Alan Green, Conor McNamara, Jonathan Pearce, Sohail Sahai

and the summarisers were

4 Jimmy Armfield
3 John Hartson, David Pleat
2 Steve Claridge, Steve Froggatt, Jermaine Jenas, Kevin Kilbane, Graham Taylor
1 Clive Allen, Phil Brown, Terry Butcher, Dean Kiely, Kevin Phillips, Steven Reid, Trevor Sinclair, Nigel Spackman,

As always thanks to everyone who contributed information to the thread throughout the season

Sunday 14th June - talkSPORT

Ian Danter presenting an International Special and Call Collymore

UEFA Euro 2016 Qualifying Group E
Slovenia v England - Jim Proudfoot and Stuart Pearce (5pm commentary)

Cricket: Third One-Day International
England v New Zealand - Guy Swindells

Great work with the BBC Radio 5 Live stats Shaun - well done in compiling them. I'll be posting the end-of-season statistics for talkSPORT in the coming days.

David, Matt Smith will be presenting some of BT Sport's European football coverage next season (Champions League, Europa League, possibly domestic leagues as well) as per this interview.