Espanyol v Deportivo La Coruna (Sky Sports 1) - Rob Palmer and Gerry Armstrong

Gary Lineker presenting from the London Stadium, joined by Alan Shearer, Ian Wright and Frank Lampard.
Eilidh Barbour interviewing and reporting, joined by Trevor Sinclair pitchside.

Commentators - Guy Mowbray and Martin Keown

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West Ham United v Manchester City - world feed - Martin Tyler and Stewart Robson

Ian Wright talking absolute crap currently.

He appears to have eaten Garth Crooks as well.

Lampard is pretty decent - isn't he?

Martin Keown still No 1 at the Beeb then

No surprise he's trending on Twitter. Going to have to put up with him as well tomorrow on BT Sport. (He's listed as a pundit on the FA Cup Tonight EPG)

I see no point in chucking Trevor Sinclair pitchside just to get some additional thoughts pre-match and at half time, he should contribute to commentary a bit to give him some actual use. It's the sort of issue I have with the BBC when they get to this stage of the competition. They might as well get a couple of special guests from both clubs rather than all of them being ex West Ham players/managers and saying very little.

We talk about the BT having issues with co-commentators yet the BBC are no different either. Keown gives me a right bloody headache as Number 1 and should be nowhere near a commentary box while I just get bored when Murphy is around and is very average, he is so much better as a pundit. Lawrenson is well overdue as well and they need to promote Kilbane & Jenas higher up.

Real Sociedad v Sevilla- Kevin Keatings

Sinclair serves no purpose other than as a professional Manchester City fan.

Dean Ashton is with Tony Jones for Preston v Arsenal.

Barrow v Rochdale- Steve Bower for the BBC
Napoli v Sampdoria- Steven Wyeth for BT
Juventus v Bologna- Adam Summerton for BT

The only two FA Cup games at 3pm on the live streaming website are:

Rochdale AFC vs Barrow AFC
Wimbledon vs Sutton United

Is this correct?

Yes. They are the only 3pm broadcasts available anywhere on the planet...

Real Madrid v Granada (Sky Sports 2) - Rob Palmer and Terry Gibson

Jake Humphrey at Old Trafford with Paul Scholes and Robbie Savage.

It seems like he is going to hotfoot it to Preston after this match to host the other tie at 5:30pm today with Arsenal. It's under an hour drive from Manchester to Preston so this weekend has worked well for Jake.

Manchester United v Reading - world feed - Guy Mowbray and Clive Allen

Indeed this pitchside pundit role always feels a bit pointless to me. I don't mind it the way that say BT do it where they have the co-commentator appear pitchside pre-match as at least the person then has some other use.
However using someone just as a pitchside pundit the way the BBC does just seems wasteful. They don't really add anything that the boys in the studio couldn't and I don't really understand why if there are 3 pundits in the studio we need others pitchside to repeat exactly what those in the studio have said.

On co-commentators, as you say BT get the brunt of the criticism but I do think that's due to the number of games they show compared to BBC and ITV more than anything.
Keown and Murphy are both awful as a top two and ITV's top two of Hoddle and Townsend are atrocious.

To be fair to the BBC, I do like Kilbane on commentary but to be honest he's below others in the pecking order and while Jenas does show potential, his TV commentaries have been more on BT than BBC.



Tough to tell with the BBC as with the FA Cup nearly everyone gets a run-out on commentary.

And while Keown did get England games and the FA Cup Final, Murphy got the Euro 2016 Final so I'm not sure it's clear cut if there is a Number 1.

Barrow v Rochdale -Steve Bower for BBC
Sutton v AFC Wimbledon -Simon Brotherton and Efan Ekoku for world feed.

Sutton v AFC Wimbledon -Simon Brotherton and Efan Ekoku for world feed and maybe on eir sport 1 in ireland

BT Sport Score - 7th Jan 2017

Mark Pougatch is joined by Jermaine Jenas, Chris Sutton, John Hartson, Paul Ince, Harry Kewell, Rachel Brown-Finnis and Howard Webb (not mentioned in the EPG)

Around the grounds:
Adam Virgo - Brentford v Eastleigh
Chris Hollins - Watford v Burton Albion
Nick Halling - Millwall v Bournemouth
Emma Dodds - Stoke v Wolves
Paul Dempsey - Everton v Leicester
Jeff Brazier - West Brom v Derby
Marc Edwards - Rotherham v Oxford
Michael Stewart - Sunderland v Burnley
Tim Cocker - Wigan v Nottingham Forest
Tom Bushell - Accrington Stanley v Luton
Robert Dugmore - Birmingham v Newcastle
Natalie Quirk - Barrow v Rochdale

What I've got up to now

Robert Dugmore at Birmingham
Natalie Quirk at Barrow
Tim Cocker at Wigan
Tom Bushell at Accrington