Wednesday 30th September - talkSPORT

Mark Saggers presenting Kick Off: Champions League Live

UEFA Champions League Group Stage
Borussia Monchengladbach v Manchester City - John Roder and Stuart Pearce (commentary)
Manchester United v VfL Wolfsburg - Dom McGuinness and Danny Higginbotham


UEFA.com

Rob Daly presenting Champions League Matchday Live alongside Paul Saffer

UEFA Champions League Group Stage
Manchester United v VfL Wolfsburg - John Bradley and Paul Saffer (commentary)
Shakhtar Donetsk v Paris Saint-Germain - Dan Roebuck (updates)

5Live

Mark Chapman presented

Utd/Wolfsburger - Alan Green & Chris Waddle
Borussia Munchenwotsits vs Man City - Conor McNamara

BBC Radio Scotland Sportsound, 1/10/15

Presented by Richard Gordon from Celtic Park, with Richard Wilson.

UEFA Europa League - Group A
Celtic v Fenerbahce (8.05pm) - Liam McLeod, Murdo MacLeod and Willie Miller (commentary)

Thursday 1st October - talkSPORT

Mark Saggers presenting Kick Off: Europa League Special alongside Russell Hargreaves and Iain Payton from The Australian Daily Telegraph (8-10pm)

UEFA Europa League Group Stage
AS Monaco v Tottenham Hotspur - Jim Proudfoot and Matt Holland (6pm commentary)
Celtic v Fenerbahce SK - Graham Courtney
Liverpool v FC Sion - Graham Beecroft

Rugby World Cup Pool A
Wales v Fiji - Rupert Bell and Rupert Moon

Is that the most Rupert-heavy reporting team ever? talkSPORT aren't carrying updates on France v Canada, today's other game in the Rugby World Cup, which is the first match from this tournament that they haven't had a dedicated reporter covering. They are doing a rugby union special after 8pm though.

From John Roder: 'After making a return to the radio with talkSPORT in September I am doing a Premier League match for them later this month, which will be interesting to say the least!' I guess it will be Sunderland v Newcastle at midday on the 25th.

Thanks for highlighting this Tony and I guess you'll be right - Sunday 25th October is talkSPORT's first double header of commentaries of the season, with two derbies in Sunderland v Newcastle United followed by Manchester United v Manchester City. I'd guess Sam and Stan will be at the later game due to its profile and for Call Collymore afterwards, so it should be John Roder on duty at the Stadium of Light. Wonder who they'll put with him - would they dare to go with Michael Gray?

October's a funny month as far as talkSPORT's Sunday commentaries go - three local derbies in these two at the end of the month and Everton v Liverpool this Sunday, but no Premier League fixtures on either of the two middle Sundays. However, Sunday 11th is during a Euro 2016 Qualifying weekend and they'll be doing commentary on Finland v Northern Ireland and Poland v Republic of Ireland that day.

I listened to John Roder and Stuart Pearce's commentary on Borussia Monchengladbach v Manchester City on Wednesday night instead of that of BT Sport, and I really enjoyed the way they worked in tandem, particularly their mutual recollections of beginning their respective careers at Coventry City (Pearce as a young footballer, Roder as a commentator for BBC Coventry & Warwickshire). Hopefully we'll hear lots more of both of them this season.

Friday 2nd October - talkSPORT

Matt Holland presenting Kick Off: The Player's Lounge alongside Danny Higginbotham

Championship
Rotherham United v Burnley - Naz Premji

Rugby World Cup Pool C
New Zealand v Georgia - Russell Hargreaves

Rugby League: Super League
Leeds Rhinos v St Helens - Graham Courtney


talkSPORT Live and Bundesliga English

Bundesliga
SV Darmstadt 98 v FSV Mainz 05 - Tom Rennie and Adrian Clarke

Following talkSPORT Live's deal with music streaming service Deezer, Tom Rennie has given a lengthy interview to the Average Joes blog: http://www.averagejoesblog.com/the-a...rt-and-deezer/


BBC Radio Lincolnshire

Rob Makepeace presenting a Sport Special from the studio

National League
Guiseley v Lincoln City - Michael Hortin and Steve Thompson (7.45pm commentary, also on the BBC Sport website)

Imps Player are doing their own commentary on this match via a very muffled phone line, I've not been able to make out who their team is though. Millers Player and Clarets Player (with Phil Bird and Dave Roberts) are both doing their own commentary on Rotherham United v Burnley. Not sure who the solo commentator is for the former.

So Arsenal vs Manchester United is the first game this season where 5live are going to use a 3 man commentary team, with Alan Green, John Murray and Jermaine Jenas, fair enough its a big game, but why didnt they do the same for Chelsea vs Arsenal? Or even one of the CL ties?

Just seems strange which games they choose and dont choose for a 3 man team, i wonder what their rationale is when deciding.

I've never really understood the Five Live approach of 2 main commentators and 1 summariser. Even now it's been reduced, when they do do it, having 1 main and 2 summarisers for the full 90 minutes would make more sense. It's the approach taken by most other stations when they use a 3-man team.

Saturday 3rd October

BBC WM

BBC WM Sport with Mike Taylor Live from Selhurst Park (12pm - 2:40pm) then, Paul Franks Live Elland Road from (2:40pm - 6pm)

Premier League
Aston Villa v Stoke City - Steve Hermon (3pm Updates)
Crystal Palace v West Brom - Mike Taylor & Tony Brown (Live FM & DAB in Birmingham Commentary from 12:45pm)

Championship
Leeds Untied v Birmingham City - Rob Gurney & Paul Franks (Live 3pm Commentary)
Wolverhampton Wanderers v Huddersfield Town - Richard Wilford & Daz Hale (Live DAB in Black Country & Freeview Commentary from 12:30pm)

League One
Wigan v Walsall - Tom Marlow (3pm Updates)

Saturday 3rd October - talkSPORT

Adrian Durham presenting Matchday Live from the Vitality Stadium with Ray Parlour at Villa Park, followed by Call Collymore from Stamford Bridge

Premier League
Crystal Palace v West Bromwich Albion - Olly Wilson
AFC Bournemouth v Watford - Ian Abrahams and Adrian Durham
Aston Villa v Stoke City - Tom Ross and Ray Parlour
Manchester City v Newcastle United - Dom McGuinness
Norwich City v Leicester City - Kev Lawrence
Sunderland v West Ham United - Graham Courtney
Chelsea v Southampton - Sam Matterface and Stan Collymore (5.30pm commentary), with Ian Danter at pitchside and James Dodd producing

Championship
Wolverhampton Wanderers v Huddersfield Town - Dave Rowe
Blackburn Rovers v Ipswich Town - Simon Humphreys
Brighton & Hove Albion v Cardiff City - Elliot Cook
Nottingham Forest v Hull City - Geoff Peters
Queens Park Rangers v Bolton Wanderers - Tony Incenzo
Reading v Middlesbrough - Alex Crook

Rugby World Cup Pool Stage
Samoa v Japan - Nick Heath
South Africa v Scotland - TBA
England v Australia - Russell Hargreaves and Brian Moore


talkSPORT Live

Premier League
Crystal Palace v West Bromwich Albion - Dominic Johnson and Matt Lawrence
AFC Bournemouth v Watford - Ian Williams
Aston Villa v Stoke City - Callum Williams
Manchester City v Newcastle United - Dan Wheeler and Bobby Gould (featured 3pm commentary on international stations)
Norwich City v Leicester City - Dan Windle
Sunderland v West Ham United - Chris Parrott
Chelsea v Southampton - TBA

Bundesliga
Borussia Monchengladbach v VfL Wolfsburg - Toby Gilles


Absolute Radio

Russ Williams presenting Rock 'N' Roll Football Live alongside Ray Houghton, followed by Ian Wright and Ian Stone on the phone-in

Premier League
Sunderland v West Ham United - Barry Davies and Perry Groves (3pm commentary), with Carl Ralley producing


Today FM

Philip Egan presenting Premier League Live, joined by Mark Lawrenson between 2-3pm

Premier League
Crystal Palace v West Bromwich Albion - Graham Miller
AFC Bournemouth v Watford - Ian Beach
Aston Villa v Stoke City - Alan Tolley
Manchester City v Newcastle United - Ron Jones and Jason McAteer (3pm commentary)
Norwich City v Leicester City - Grahame Lloyd
Sunderland v West Ham United - John Temple


Newstalk 106-108FM

Ger Gilroy presenting Off The Ball alongside Dave McIntyre, Adrian Barry and Emmet Malone from The Irish Times

Premier League (as IRN)
Crystal Palace v West Bromwich Albion - Andrew Cheal
AFC Bournemouth v Watford - Adam Lindsay
Aston Villa v Stoke City - Laurence Mora
Manchester City v Newcastle United - David Easson
Norwich City v Leicester City - Guy Swindells
Sunderland v West Ham United - Stephen Goldsmith
Chelsea v Southampton - Nathan Murphy and Dion Fanning (as Newstalk)

Nathan Murphy was at the Olympic Stadium for the Ireland rugby union team's training session there earlier on.

Andrew Dawkins is reading out the half time & full time scores on WM. For must of the season it has been Tom Marlow apart from the 2 Saturday's that Tom was covering games where it was Nikki Lloyd. It used to be John Platt who read them out in pervious season he also read the sports news for 3 days in the week but over the last 2 years he has been doing less and less and now he just reads the sport some Fridays. I don't know how many season he has been doing it for, maybe The Difference can help me out on this one?

BBC Radio Leeds
11:30-18:00
Wolverhampton Wanderers versus Huddersfield Town - also on the official Huddersfield Town website, post-match not on FM and Freeview - Gareth Jones, Paul Ogden and Kieran O'Regan
Leeds United versus Birmingham City - Katherine Hannah, Adam Pope and Noel Whelan
Rochdale vversus Bradford City - reporter - Matt Shaw
Halifax Town - online - Dave Fletccher
Wakefield Wildcats versus Bradford Bulls - AM, DAB and online - James Deighton and Jamie Jones-Buchanan*

Pulse 1 and official Bradford City website
Rochdale versus Bradford City - Jason Thornton and Ian Ormondroyd


Split Commentaries

BBC Radio Sheffield
FM: Sheffield United
AM and DAB: Doncaster Rovers versus Barnsley

BBC Radio Humberside
FM: Hull City
AM: Scunthorpe United
DAB and online: Grimsby Town


Notes
*The coverage started shortly before the match.

It's a pity the three weeks is up as Barry Davies has really grown into his radio commentary role. He was on fine form today and at the end they seemed to hint that he might come back as cover in the future.

BBC Radio Scotland Sportsound, 3/10/15

Presented by Richard Gordon from Pittodrie (football) and Dougie Vipond with Tom English from St James’ Park (rugby).

Post-match interviewers in brackets where applicable.

Scottish Premiership
Aberdeen v St Johnstone - Willie Miller (Liam McLeod)
Dundee v Motherwell - Rob Maclean (Alasdair Lamont)
Hearts v Kilmarnock - Michael Stewart (Connie McLaughlin)
Partick Thistle v Dundee Utd - Allan Preston (Chris McLaughlin)
Ross County v Inverness CT - Barry Wilson (Martin Dowden)

Scottish Championship
Queen of the South v Hibernian - Derek Ferguson
St Mirren v Alloa Athletic - Charlie Mann
The Rangers v Falkirk - Chick Young

Rugby World Cup - Pool B
Scotland v South Africa (4.45pm) - Bill Johnstone, Peter Wright and John Beattie (810MW commentary) with Phil Goodlad pitchside

BBC Radio Wales

Brighton & Hove Albion v Tan FC - Mark Poyser and Daniel Gabbidon (SE Wales FM & DAB / SW Wales FM & DAB / Digital TV) (N Wales FM & NE/NW Wales DAB for 2nd half)
Newly upgraded Newport County v Exeter City - Ian Hunt (host) Rob Phillips and Ian Walsh (MW)
Chester FC v Wrexham (1400BST) Dylan Griffiths and Kevin Ratcliffe (N Wales FM / NE & NW Wales DAB / Online)
Newtown v Bala Town - Marc Lloyd Williams
Pontypridd v Llandovery (Principality Premiership) - Alun Jenkins

BBC Radio Cymru

Brighton & Hove Albion v Tan FC - Owain Llyr and Iwan Roberts (SE Wales FM & DAB / SW Wales FM & DAB / M Wales FM)
Newly upgraded Newport County v Exeter City - Rhodri Llewellyn (host) Gareth Blainey (updates)
Chester FC v Wrexham (1400BST) - John Hardy and Waynne Phillips (N Wales FM / NE &NW Wales DAB / Digital TV) (All frequencies for first half)
Newtown v Bala Town - Marc Lloyd Williams
Pontypridd v Llandovery (Principality Premiership) - Alun Jenkins

BBC Bristol / Somerset

Geoff Twentyman (studio host)

Bristol City v Milton Keynes Dons - Ed Hadwin and Adam Baker (1548MW / 1566MW / Bristol & Bath DAB)
Morecambe v Bristol Rovers - Richard Hoskin and Keith Brookman (94.9FM / 104.6FM / Somerset DAB / Freeview)
Portsmouth v Yeovil Town - Alistair Durden and Chris Spittles (95.5FM)

BFBS Radio

SPL preview - Stewart Weir
Crystal Palace v West Ham United - Andrew Cheal (FT report)

I felt like I was back listening to ex-local station Galaxy 101 (now Kiss FM) at one point, as the show played "Bran van 3000 - Drinking in LA", "Cristina Aguilera - Genie in a Bottle" followed by that "Baz Lurhman - Everybody's Free (To wear Sunscreen)" before hearing from Stewart.

BBC Radio Manchester presented by Jimmy Wagg from Man City

Manchester City v Newcastle United - Ian Cheseman and Paul Lake - FM commentary
QPR v Bolton Wanderers - Jack Dearden and Simon Charlton - DAB commentary
Colchester United v Bury - Graham Miller - reports
Gillingham v Oldham Athletic - Karl Bates - reports
Rochdale v Bradford City - John Gilder - reports
Wigan Athletic v Walsall - Paul Rowley - reports

BBC Radio Scotland Sportsound, 4/10/15

Presented by Richard Gordon from New Douglas Park.

Scottish Premiership
Hamilton Accies v Celtic (12.30pm) - Liam McLeod, Derek Ferguson and Pat Bonner (commentary) with Chick Young pitchside

Filing in yesterday's gaps...


Stuart Cameron was talkSPORT's reporter at South Africa v Scotland in the Rugby World Cup.


Toby Gilles and Jason Euell commentated on Chelsea v Southampton for talkSPORT Live.

Today FM had Peter Hood reporting on the match from Stamford Bridge.


I can't tell you an exact date, but I do know that John Platt had been reading out the half-time and full-time scores on BBC WM on Saturdays for as long as I can remember - since I was a child in the mid 1990s anyway. Much as I'm glad to hear Andrew Dawkins has a gig on BBC WM's sports coverage again, it's a shame that Platty is no longer doing this.

I read on the internet that it was Nick Owen who gave John a job at WM (Nick left in the later 70s) so that means John has been there for over 35 years and I read that before he was at WM he had a career as a newspaper journalist so he must be in his mid 60s.

BBC Radio Manchester - Sunday 4th October

Arsenal v Manchester United - Liam Bradford - reports

Maybe he's pre-recording Network Gold (a long-running oldies chart music show that has followed their Saturday afternoon coverage since at least the 1990s) these days and so isn't in the studio ready to present that show after WM Sport finishes at 6pm?

If so, that would explain why they've been getting someone else - presumably people who are also working as studio-based producers - to read the classified scores. Out of interest, what happened that season a few years back when Network Gold was shunted around the schedule? (I forget the exact year and the timeslots I'm afraid)

I think he has pre-recorded Network Gold for a long time now. He plays lots of rare records and does a lot of research and with no producer this would take a lot of time and with him cutting down on the days he does the sports updates in the day from 3 to 1 and with his age, I think he has semi retired. If I remember rightly before Tom Marlow started reporting on games he was a producer for WM Sport so he has gone back to his old job I expect.

Sunday 4th October - talkSPORT

Mark Saggers presented Sunday Exclusive from Goodison Park, followed by Call Collymore from Goodison Park

Premier League
Everton v Liverpool - Sam Matterface and Stan Collymore (1.30pm commentary), with Graham Beecroft at pitchside and James Dodd producing
Arsenal v Manchester United - Ian Abrahams
Swansea City v Tottenham Hotspur - Laurence Mora

Championship
Charlton Athletic v Fulham - Chris Parrott

Rugby World Cup Pool Stage
Argentina v Tonga - John Anderson
Ireland v Italy - Nick Heath and Brian Moore

American Football: NFL International Series
New York Jets @ Miami Dolphins (Wembley Stadium) - Olly Wilson


talkSPORT Live

Premier League
Everton v Liverpool - Alex Crook and David Thompson
Arsenal v Manchester United - Phil Blacker and Paul Mortimer (featured 4pm commentary on international stations)
Swansea City v Tottenham Hotspur - Joe Shennan

Bundesliga
Schalke 04 v FC Koln - James Fielden
Bayern Munchen v Borussia Dortmund - Dan Wheeler


Newstalk 106-108FM

Joe Molloy presented Off The Ball

Premier League
Everton v Liverpool - Mark Scott and Stephen Hunt (1.30pm commentary)
Arsenal v Manchester United - Dave McIntyre and Kenny Cunningham (4pm commentary)
Swansea City v Tottenham Hotspur - Sam Fleet (as IRN)

Rugby World Cup Pool D
Ireland v Italy - Nathan Murphy, with Damien Varley providing studio-based analysis

Just to add to the John Platt discussion, John has been at WM a *very* long time. I couldn't give you an exact date but he was also on the newsreader roster back in the mid 1980s. I guess he must be of retirement age but still does a bit?