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Radio Football Commentators and Reporters 2015/16
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shaun_d
23-08-2015
5 Live - 22.8.15

With Mark Pougatch at Old Trafford

Man Utd v Newcastle - John Murray & Chris Waddle (commentary)
Crystal Palace v Aston Villa - Jonathan Overend
Leicester v Tottenham - Ian Dennis & Mark Lawrenson (commentary)
Norwich v Stoke - Peter Slater
Sunderland v Swansea - Ian Brown
West Ham v Bournemouth - John Southall

Brighton v Blackburn - John Roder
Charlton v Hull - Andy Gillies
Leeds v Sheff Wed - Delyth Lloyd
Middlesbrough v Bristol City - Vicky Sparks
Preston v Ipswich - Dave Woods
QPR v Rotherham - Hamish Marshall

Walsall v Coventry - Steve Wyeth

Dundee Utd v Celtic - Roddy Forsyth
Hearts v Partick Thistle - Ian Turner
The Difference
23-08-2015
Originally Posted by The Difference:
“Saturday 22nd August - talkSPORT

I'm sure talkSPORT will carry reports on France v England and maybe Italy v Scotland in the rugby union later on.”

They just covered the former game during The Season Ticket with Nat Coombs and Richard Lee:

Rugby Union: International
France v England - Nick Heath

Originally Posted by The Difference:
“talkSPORT Live

Bundesliga
FC Koln v VfL Wolfsburg - Dan Wheeler
Hamburger SV v VfB Stuttgart - TBA”

James Fielden commentated on Hamburger SV v VfB Stuttgart for talkSPORT Live's Bundesliga English service.

Originally Posted by connor the judg:
“Saturday 22nd August

BBC WM

League One
Walsall v Coventry City (3pm Updates)”

Tom Marlow was BBC WM's reporter at Walsall's marvellous win over Coventry City - he also conducted the post-match interviews for Saddlers Player. You might be interested to know that WM and Saddlers Player have been sharing interviews conducted by their respective broadcasters across the two platforms this season.

Speaking of which, I'm not sure whether it was Tom, BBC Radio 5 Live's Steve Wyeth or whoever was at the Bescot for Sky Sports Soccer Saturday - but I could hear one of the reporters at the game very clearly in the background of Dale Moon and Mick Kearns' Saddlers Player commentary!
connor the judg
23-08-2015
Originally Posted by The Difference:
“Tom Marlow was BBC WM's reporter at Walsall's marvellous win over Coventry City - he also conducted the post-match interviews for Saddlers Player. You might be interested to know that WM and Saddlers Player have been sharing interviews conducted by their respective broadcasters across the two platforms this season.

Speaking of which, I'm not sure whether it was Tom, BBC Radio 5 Live's Steve Wyeth or whoever was at the Bescot for Sky Sports Soccer Saturday - but I could hear one of the reporters at the game very clearly in the background of Dale Moon and Mick Kearns' Saddlers Player commentary!”

I'm sorry about that; it knew it was Tom and thought that I has posted it but, it seems I missed it out.

BBC WM's Steve Hermon was working for BBC Manchester on Crewe v Bury yesterday!
connor the judg
23-08-2015
Originally Posted by The Difference:
“Friday 21st August - talkSPORT
Birmingham City v Derby County - Tom Ross!!!

Big news this - a talkSPORT debut for BRMB/Free Radio 80s legend Tom Ross. It's the first time he's worked for a broadcaster other than the now-Orion Media owned stations in ages, I think since the 1990s when I believe he did a few cameos on Sky Sports in their early days when they were using local commercial radio commentators on their highlights shows. Earlier Tom was presenting The Friday Football Phone-In on Free Radio 80s from St Andrew's, although interestingly he never explicitly mentioned it, probably as FR80s was going off-air at 7pm and it would have sounded weird for him to be at the game but not covering it live for them. It was pretty clear he was there though, as you could hear the tannoy. Matt Murray mentioned how he was sitting in Tom's usual chair in the studio.

I always felt there would be a day when Tom would turn up on talkSPORT - he's well liked by a number of members of their sports coverage team, notably Ian Danter who he gave a first break too, and quite clearly is a listener to the station. Indeed now that Dants is based in the south, perhaps Tom might be a logical fit to report for them on Sunday and midweek games taking place in Birmingham on a semi-regular basis?

Over the past seven days talkSPORT have called upon a number of recent local radio correspondents including Tom's former Goalzone colleague Olly Wilson, ex-BBC Radio Leeds presenter Derm Tanner and voices familiar to BBC Radio Sheffield listeners in Paul Walker and Nick Walsh; I think it may have been Walsh's debut on the station last Saturday although I'm not sure - he's definitely done some national work for IRN but I'm not sure if he turned up on talkSPORT last term. But for me hearing Tom on talkSPORT is a really big deal, he's been so ingrained in the West Midlands football scene with him celebrating his 35th year with what's now Free Radio this season. Great to hear him broadcasting nationally and hopefully this will be the first of many occasions we hear him on talkSPORT.

Blues Player has the former Free Radio 80s duo Mikey Burrows and Kevan Broadhurst commentating on this game.”

Great to hear that Tom is working for talkSPORT, I think we will hear more of him on this station and on the Blues player as the season goes on. talkSPORT have Nigel Pearson who lives in West Midlands.

It's good to hear that Free Radio 80s sports team are now being used by others. Mikey Burrows has been reading the sport over the last 5 weeks on BBC WM's breakfast show and is working on most Wolves game for the Wolves player and now the Bules player.

Chris Coles is this weekend commentating on the cricket for BBC WM and has also reported on some pre season friendlies. His twitter bio now says "Freelance sports broadcaster & commentator including BBC WM, Free Radio, Aston Villa, Birmingham City and Walsall". I guess he still helps Free Radio doing the pre game interviews. He has been heard on the Walsall player and it looks like he will be also working for Villa and Blues Player's.
Mark.
23-08-2015
BBC Radio Scotland Sportsound, 23/8/15

Presented by Richard Gordon.

Scottish Championship
The Rangers v Hibernian (12.30pm) - Rob Maclean, Craig Paterson and Jon Daly (off-tube commentary)
connor the judg
23-08-2015
Sunday 23rd August

BBC WM

BBC WM Sport with Mark Regan

Premier League
West Brom v Chelsea - Mark Regan & Tony Brown (Live 1:30pm Commentary)

County Championship Division 1 Cricket
Nottignhamhsire v Warwickshire - Chris Coles (Updates with Commentary online from Chris, Dave Bracegirdle of BBC Nottingham & Phil Britt of Warwickshire CCC)

With all 5 teams playing Tuesday, it will be interesting to see if we hear any new voices. Richard Wilford is away covering the breakfast show and with Rob Gurney away too WM will have Mark Regan, Mike Taylor and Tom Marlow. Steve Hermon was working for BBC Manchester this weekend so I don't know if he will be working for WM this season. I guess we may hear Chris Coles, Adam Bridge and maybe a new name.
Grahamjoanne
23-08-2015
BBC Radio Manchester - Sunday 23rd August

Everton v Manchester City - Ian Cheeseman and Fred Eyre - commentary
IanFergus
23-08-2015
BBC Three Counties Radio
Watford v Southampton Geoff Doyle (host) with Jon Marks, Derek Payne and Rene Gilmartin (commentary)

BBC Radio Five Live
WBA v Chelsea Alistair Bruce-Ball
Everton v Manchester City Guy Mowbray and Steve Claridge (commentary)
Watford v Southampton Mike Sewell
The Difference
23-08-2015
Originally Posted by connor the judg:
“Great to hear that Tom is working for talkSPORT, I think we will hear more of him on this station and on the Blues player as the season goes on. talkSPORT have Nigel Pearson who lives in West Midlands.

It's good to hear that Free Radio 80s sports team are now being used by others. Mikey Burrows has been reading the sport over the last 5 weeks on BBC WM's breakfast show and is working on most Wolves game for the Wolves player and now the Bules player.

Chris Coles is this weekend commentating on the cricket for BBC WM and has also reported on some pre season friendlies. His twitter bio now says "Freelance sports broadcaster & commentator including BBC WM, Free Radio, Aston Villa, Birmingham City and Walsall". I guess he still helps Free Radio doing the pre game interviews. He has been heard on the Walsall player and it looks like he will be also working for Villa and Blues Player's.”

As well as Nigel Pearson who's from the Black Country and Ian Danter from Birmingham, talkSPORT have a number of other correspondents who are from the Midlands region - you have Dave Rowe from Coventry, Geoff Peters from Leicester and Simon Humphreys from Stoke. They also occasionally call upon AVTV's Jack Woodward on days when his main employer Aston Villa aren't in action. I've often said on here how talkSPORT has by some distance the largest pool of Midlands sports reporters of any of the national broadcasters, they are really well represented in our area. This has always been a large part of the reason why the station holds a big appeal to me.

However, these days not all of the guys I mention regularly cover that beat - Pearson does but has his darts and speedway commitments, but as mentioned Danter now lives in the south and will often cover Southampton and Swansea City home games for Matchday Live. As the host of the excellent Up The League, Peters is very much talkSPORT's Football League correspondent so is just as likely to be at a top Championship game in the north or south as he is to be in his native East Midlands, while for many years Rowe and Humphreys have covered games played in the North-West outside of the big cities more so than they do Midlands games south of Stoke. So I've thought for a while now that for them to have an additional Midlands-based correspondent would be useful - not only can they call upon Tom Ross, but there's Olly Wilson and also Mikey Burrows, seeing as he now regularly works for a UTV Radio-owned station as Signal 107's Wolves commentator.

Locally, it's really good to hear there now seems to be a synergy in terms of sharing sports broadcasters between BBC WM, Free Radio 80s, Signal 107 and the local sports teams. It's good to hear some of the area's many talented commentators working across multiple platforms - as a fan of both teams, I've really enjoyed hearing Chris Coles commentating on Saddlers Player over the last week and look forward to hearing him doing WM's Warwickshire commentaries during the rest of the summer. And arrangements like the one I mentioned between WM and Walsall regarding interviews are a win-win for all concerned.
The Difference
23-08-2015
Sunday 23rd August - talkSPORT

Mark Saggers presented Sunday Exclusive from the Hawthorns, followed by Call Collymore from the Hawthorns

Premier League
West Bromwich Albion v Chelsea - Nigel Adderley and Stan Collymore (1.30pm commentary), with James Dodd producing
Everton v Manchester City - Graham Beecroft
Watford v Southampton - Ian Abrahams

Cricket: Fifth Ashes Test Match
England v Australia - Jon Norman

Formula 1: Belgian Grand Prix
Circuit de Spa-Francorchamps - Graham Courtney

Athletics: IAAF World Championships 2015
Beijing National Stadium - Pete Abbott (also sports newsreader)


talkSPORT Live

Premier League
West Bromwich Albion v Chelsea - John Anderson and Sam Parkin
Everton v Manchester City - Phil Blacker and Adrian Clarke (featured 4pm commentary on international radio stations)
Watford v Southampton - Toby Gilles

Bundesliga
FC Ingolstadt 04 v Borussia Dortmund - James Fielden
Borussia Monchengladbach v Mainz 05 - Kevin Hatchard


Newstalk 106-108FM

Joe Molloy presented Off The Ball alongside Richie McCormack

Premier League
West Bromwich Albion v Chelsea - Mark Scott and John Anderson (1.30pm commentary)
Everton v Manchester City - Nathan Murphy and Clinton Morrison (4pm commentary)
Watford v Southampton - Elliot Cook (I think, as IRN)

Gaelic Football: GAA All-Ireland Senior Championship Semi-Final
Kelly v Tyrone - Oisin Langan and Colm Parkinson
Shrewn
24-08-2015
Good to hear that Tom Ross had an outing on talkSPORT. I remember Gary Newbon once saying he wanted Tom involved in Central's coverage back in the day, but Tom was so busy with BRMB as was that he simply didn't have time.
Sorry I've not had chance to read all the posts, Tom has had national outings before, I've heard his reports for IRN in various parts of the country before now, and of course he did a couple of World Cups for Capital Radio Group
The Difference
25-08-2015
Originally Posted by Shrewn:
“Good to hear that Tom Ross had an outing on talkSPORT. I remember Gary Newbon once saying he wanted Tom involved in Central's coverage back in the day, but Tom was so busy with BRMB as was that he simply didn't have time.
Sorry I've not had chance to read all the posts, Tom has had national outings before, I've heard his reports for IRN in various parts of the country before now, and of course he did a couple of World Cups for Capital Radio Group”

Yes, Tom (who's father is Scottish) covered Scotland games at France 98 along with Jim Proudfoot for the Capital Radio Group - they were the main commentary pairing on BRMB back then with the station being owned by the Capital Group at the time. That's the only World Cup I've known him to have covered though, if he did more than one I'm guessing it must have been either Italia 90 or USA 94? I'd guess the former, given that Capital would only have had a limited team in the USA. He may have also covered Euro 96 and/or Euro 2000 in some capacity for them, the latter being the last tournament the Capital Radio Group covered in the form of live commentaries.
The Difference
25-08-2015
Monday 24th August - talkSPORT

Mark Saggers presenting Kick Off: Monday Night Feist Night alongside Stan Collymore

Premier League
Arsenal v Liverpool - Mike Bovill


talkSPORT Live

Premier League
Arsenal v Liverpool - Tom Rennie and Rhys Weston
Shrewn
25-08-2015
Originally Posted by The Difference:
“Yes, Tom (who's father is Scottish) covered Scotland games at France 98 along with Jim Proudfoot for the Capital Radio Group - they were the main commentary pairing on BRMB back then with the station being owned by the Capital Group at the time. That's the only World Cup I've known him to have covered though, if he did more than one I'm guessing it must have been either Italia 90 or USA 94? I'd guess the former, given that Capital would only have had a limited team in the USA. He may have also covered Euro 96 and/or Euro 2000 in some capacity for them, the latter being the last tournament the Capital Radio Group covered in the form of live commentaries.”

Yes it could well have been the Euros I was thinking of. Did Capital not cover the 2002 W/C?
swfcforever
25-08-2015
Originally Posted by The Difference:
“Monday 24th August - talkSPORT

Mark Saggers presenting Kick Off: Monday Night Feist Night alongside Stan Collymore

Premier League
Arsenal v Liverpool - Mike Bovill


talkSPORT Live

Premier League
Arsenal v Liverpool - Tom Rennie and Rhys Weston”

On Hawksbee and Jacobs, they mentioned it was Mike Bovill's last commentary/update for talksport
connor the judg
25-08-2015
It seems Mikey Burrows was at the West Brom v Chelsea game for BBC WM but, he was used as the presenter or commentator and in fact he wasn't used on air at all (I think he just did the interviews afterwards). That doesn't make any sense why couldn't Mikey commentate with Mark Regan presenting.
https://twitter.com/BurrowsMikey/sta...20393201881088
Rich_McLean
25-08-2015
Tuesday 25th August 2015 - BBC Radio Devon (1900-2200)

Alan Richardson presents Devon Sport from the Stadium of Light

Captial One Cup - 2nd Round
Sunderland v Exeter City - Alan Richardson & Andrew Barge - Full Commentary (also on Grecian Player) (1945)

Many Thanks to The Difference for posting up last weekends Devon details while I was away
connor the judg
25-08-2015
Tuesday 25th August

BBC WM

BBC WM Sport with Mike Taylor

League Cup - Second Round
Aston Villa v Notts County - Mark Regan (FM Updates)
Birmingham City v Gillingham Town - Richard Wilford & Darren Carter (Live FM Commentary)
Walsall v Brighton & Hove Albion - Chris Coles (FM Updates)
West Brom v Port Vale - Steve Hermon & Tony Brown (Live 8pm, DAB in Birmingham Commentary)
Wolverhampton Wanderers v Barnet - Mike Taylor & Daz Hale (Live DAB in Black Country & Freeview Commentary)

It would make more sense for Rego or Daz to host the show.
The Difference
25-08-2015
Tuesday 25th August - talkSPORT

Mark Saggers presenting Kick Off from the Keepmoat Stadium with Michael Gray at St James' Park

UEFA Champions League Play-Off Round Second Leg
Malmo v Celtic - Andrew McKenna

Capital One Cup Second Round
Aston Villa v Notts County - Nigel Pearson
Crystal Palace v Shrewsbury Town - Ian Abrahams
Doncaster Rovers v Ipswich Town - Naz Premji and Mark Saggers
Luton Town v Stoke City - Jim Proudfoot
Milton Keynes Dons v Cardiff City - Geoff Peters
Newcastle United v Northampton Town - Graham Courtney and Michael Gray
Preston North End v Watford - Graham Beecroft
Queens Park Rangers v Carlisle United - Tony Incenzo
Sunderland v Exeter City - Dave Easson
West Bromwich Albion v Port Vale - Simon Humphreys

talkSPORT aren't doing a League Cup commentary from this round of the competition, what with them doing commentary on Club Brugge v Manchester United with Jim Proudfoot and Ray Houghton tomorrow. Given that they did commentary on Doncaster Rovers v Leeds United from the last round, I wonder if they came to some sort of arrangement to swap their usual second round live game for a first round tie, which they don't normally do.


Signal 107

Steve Mason presenting The Big Match on Signal 107 from the studio

Capital One Cup Second Round
Wolverhampton Wanderers v Barnet - Mikey Burrows and Andy Thompson (7.45pm commentary, also on Wolves Player)
shaun_d
25-08-2015
5 Live - 24.8.15

With Mark Chapman

Arsenal v Liverpool - Conor McNamara & Steve Claridge (commentary)


5 Live - 25.8.15

With Mark Chapman

Malmo v Celtic - Roddy Forsyth

Aston Villa v Notts County - Simon Mann
Bury v Leicester - John Acres
Crystal Palace v Shrewsbury - John Southall
Hartlepool v Bournemouth - Vicky Sparks
Luton v Stoke - Alistair Bruce-Ball & David Pleat (commentary)
Newcastle v Northampton - Conor McNamara & Steve Harper
Preston v Watford - Ian Brown
Rotherham v Norwich - Peter Slater
Sunderland v Exeter - Dave Woods
Swansea v York - Sohail Sahi
WBA v Port Vale - Will Perry
swfcforever
25-08-2015
BBC Radio Sheffield 25/08/2015:-
On FM:- Jonathan Buchan, Commentating and Keith Edwards, summerising on Fulham v Sheffield United from Craven Cottage.
On MW/DAB:- Rob Station, commentating and John Breckin, Summerising on Rotherham United v Norwich City from The New York Stadium.

Mike Miney doing reports for Doncaster Rovers v Ipswich Town from The Keepmoat Stadium.
Adam Oxley doing reports for The Massive (Sheffield Wednesday) v Oxford United from Hillsborough.
Grahamjoanne
25-08-2015
BBC Radio Manchester

Hull City v Rochdale - Jack Dearden and Steve Eyre - commentary
Bury v Leicester City - Phil Kinsella - reports
connor the judg
25-08-2015
Originally Posted by connor the judg:
“Tuesday 25th August

BBC WM

BBC WM Sport with Mike Taylor

League Cup - Second Round
Aston Villa v Notts County - Mark Regan (FM Updates)
Birmingham City v Gillingham Town - Richard Wilford & Darren Carter (Live FM Commentary)
Walsall v Brighton & Hove Albion - Chris Coles (FM Updates)
West Brom v Port Vale - Steve Hermon (FM Updates with Live FM, DAB & Freeview Commentary on extra time)
Wolverhampton Wanderers v Barnet - Mike Taylor & Daz Hale (Live DAB in Black Country & Freeview Commentary)

It would make more sense for Rego or Daz to host the show.”

Correction to WM details.
Mark.
26-08-2015
BBC Radio Scotland Sportsound, 25/8/15

Presented by Richard Gordon, with Tom English at the Swedbank Stadion.

UEFA Champions League play-off, 2nd leg
Malmo FF v Celtic (7.45pm) - Liam McLeod and Pat Bonner (commentary) with Chris McLaughlin reporting

Scottish League Cup 2nd round (all 7.45pm)
Dunfermline Athletic v Dundee - Scott Davie
East Fife v Motherwell - Richard Wilson
Forfar Athletic v Hearts - Brian McLaughlin (via phone)
Kilmarnock v Berwick Rangers - Chick Young
Ross County v Ayr Utd - Martin Dowden
The Difference
26-08-2015
Originally Posted by The Difference:
“Tuesday 25th August - talkSPORT

Mark Saggers presenting Kick Off from the Keepmoat Stadium with Michael Gray at St James' Park

Capital One Cup Second Round
Luton Town v Stoke City - Jim Proudfoot
West Bromwich Albion v Port Vale - Simon Humphreys”

Both the Luton Town v Stoke City and West Bromwich Albion v Port Vale matches went to penalties, and with them being 7.45pm and 8pm kick-offs respectively, there was studio-based commentary on the tail end of the shootout in the former match with Andy Goldstein and Jason Cundy during their show The Sports Bar after they'd been full-time reports on other matches to have headed into extra time, before going to Jim Proudfoot for a final update upon its conclusion.

After the 10.30pm sports bulletin, they then had Simon Humphreys doing commentary from the Hawthorns on the penalties in the latter fixture from Port Vale's second spot kick onwards, with this being interspersed by Goldstein announcing the third round draw as it was being made.

Originally Posted by swfcforever:
“On Hawksbee and Jacobs, they mentioned it was Mike Bovill's last commentary/update for talksport”

Thanks for sharing that on this thread. Out of interest, when did H&J say that during yesterday's show? I appreciate you probably won't be able to provide me with an exact timecheck, but if you could let me know what sort of time this was mentioned - i.e. during their 1pm show opener, during an interview with someone or in the second/third hour - so I can track it down to hear exactly what was said, that would be great.

I suppose it makes sense that Mike Bovill won't be involved in commentaries or reports any long now that he has a senior role as the station's Head of Sport (presumably he'll continue to do live match production work), although I'd be interested to know if this just applies to football given that the Rugby World Cup is coming up and I imagine they'll need as many voices as possible to report on that tournament when they are stretching their sports reporting team across both domestic football and rugby union this autumn.
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