OK, yes, thanks.

But I'm really just trying to establish how often anyone else was used instead of Humphrey.

Obviously the above very sad situation and also the FA Cup clash on BBC were a different type of scenario where Humphrey moved to number 1 so someone else had to come in as number 2.

City's game confirmed off.

Manchester United's Premier League International Cup game also under threat (lightning and thunder very visible; loss of power).

Manchester has basically shut down at the moment

Hi mate, Humphrey didn't miss a second rated match last season, he was covering every round, i did mention the other day i found it strange he wasn't covering a game, time will tell in round 2 but even so i thought it strange but in my view Matt Smith is a vastly superior presenter to Humphrey.

In answer to another question i did mention that Humphrey's next game is covering Man Utd thur.

Man City game called off.

Now confirmed as postponed.

Heard game may now be played tomorrow, presume it will stay on ESPN if it does happen tomorrow?

Tuesday 13th September - BT Sport 2

Live UEFA Champions League: Paris Saint-Germain v Arsenal

Gary Lineker presenting from the studio alongside Rio Ferdinand and Ian Wright

Commentators: Darren Fletcher and Owen Hargreaves

Reporter: Des Kelly


BT Sport 3

Live UEFA Champions League: Barcelona v Celtic

Darrell Currie presenting from the studio alongside Gordon Strachan and John Hartson

Commentators: Derek Rae and Chris Sutton

Reporter: Eilidh Barbour


BT Sport//ESPN

Live UEFA Champions League: Manchester City P-P Borussia Monchengladbach

Matt Smith presenting from the City of Manchester Stadium alongside Uwe Rosler and Richard Dunne

Commentators: Peter Drury and Steve McManaman

Reporter: Natalie Quirk


BT Sport Extra

UEFA Champions League Group Stage
Bayern Munchen v FC Rostov (X2) - Guy Mowbray and Don Hutchison
PSV Eindhoven v Atletico Madrid (X3) - Alistair Mann and Danny Mills
Dynamo Kyiv vs Napoli (X4) - Simon Brotherton and Stewart Robson
SL Benfica v Besiktas (X5) - Steven Wyeth and Ally McCoist
FC Basel v PFC Ludogorets Razgrad (X6) - Steve Bower and Clive Allen


BT Sport 1

UEFA Champions League Goals Show

James Richardson presenting from the studio alongside James Horncastle, Julien Laurens, Raphael Honigstein and Howard Webb

Emergency generator at Leigh SV; Manchester United Reserves game might go ahead now at 8pm...

EDIT - about to kick off (8pm - delayed an hour)

Chris Parrott and Terry Gibson commentating

Mark Sullivan and Quinton Fortune pitchside

OK - many thanks.

PSG vs. Arsenal world feed - Jonathan Pearce and Danny Higginbotham

I don't see why not - if they're not doing the Man U game from the stadium (and I don't think they generally did in the group stage last season), he'll be doing both from London, so it'll be exactly the same as what Gary Lineker is doing.

I did like the bit at the start of the coverage when Gary walked around the studio and pointed to the shows going ahead in the other studios and on the monitor. I know big massive studios can be rather pointless but it looked very impressive and there is a purpose to it in that context.


Happened a couple of times, I think. I remember a Newcastle match being called off in 2002/03, when ITV had the lot. It was on ITV2 and I remember Jon Champion talking at great length over pictures of people peering from under umbrellas. That was played the next day, because it was also a Tuesday match. I don't know what would happen if a Wednesday game was called off.

Of course fifteen years ago almost to the day Man U and Celtic's games were called off due to 9/11, and played a month later, when everyone else was in the League Cup. And in turn Man U's League Cup fixture was crammed in a month later, on the Monday before an international break and 24 hours after they'd played a Premier League game. Imagine if this forum was around then, people would be going mad.

If the City game is tomorrow, they'll probably need another co-commentator with McManaman on the Leicester coverage. I'd expect Drury with a Trevor Francis or maybe Danny Mills. Richard Dunne should still be available and you'd expect the same of Rosler also.

I think EL has gone in-house from this season. PL still S&V, of course.

Source, this press release: http://www.tinopolis.com/news/2015/a...f-season-2018/

A couple of belated comments on Sky's coverage of Celtic v Rangers.

After the match, they showed a montage of sights and sounds from the game... just crowd noise - no music track. For example, hearing the crowd as the teams came out onto the pitch and for each individual goal. It was very cool I thought, I'd like to see more of that kind of thing.

Also, in the post-match interview, Brendan Rodgers took exception to something the reporter said. He said "Leigh who?" (referring to Leigh Griffiths) and Rodgers told him not to be disrespectful. The guy didn't mean anything by it, I don't know why Rodgers didn't let that one pass. The presenter in the studio even made a remark afterwards as if to say "hey, he was only joking y'know".

Now the City game has been confirmed for 7:45pm Wednesday, it surely won't just be additional co-comms that BT need, but an entirely different crew, as they'll be host broadcaster for both that game and Spurs at Wembley?

I only watched the last 15 mins of the Arsenal game but Fletcher made huge mistake I thought when saying Arsenal v Chelsea was on a Friday night when it is actually on BT on the Sat night. Surely with it being on BT he would know this, I know could of been a slip of the tongue but stood out for me.

BT Sport 1 last night and tonight at 730pm

UEFA Champions League Goals Show

James Richardson presenting from the studio alongside James Horncastle, Julien Laurens, Raphael Honigstein and Howard Webb

The above makes the group stages interesting. You see all the games live. Its a copy of Sky Sport's Germany Konferenz live on saturday afternoons at 230pm.

The only live games I will be watching is in matchday 2:
Ath Madrid v Bayern Munich
Borussia Dortmund v Real Madrid

Martin Tyler has stated in his Sky column that he will be commentating on Chelsea v Liverpool this Friday.

Man City v Borussia Monchengladbach- Tony Jones for the world feed (Nigel Adderley, who was scheduled to commentate yesterday, is commentating on Bruges v Leicester for talkSPORT)
Lyon v GNK DInamo- Dan O'Hagan for the world feed
Lyon v GNK Dinamo- John Roder and Nigel Spackman for BT
Zorya v Fenerbahce- Derek Rae for BT
Cologne v Freiburg- Derek Rae for the world feed

Spurs v Monaco- Simon Brotherton for the world feed

Don't think Mowbray is doing a game tonight for BT but is doing a game for the world feed which means it will be interesting to see who commentates tonight for the Spurs game.

We know It's Jenas on co-commentary but the commentator is an interesting question, won't be Fletcher as he is doing the Man United game, won't be Mowbray as he is doing a game for the world feed tonight, Won't be Darke as he is at the Leicester game with Savage and it won't be Drury as he is at the City game tonight. Think it might be Adam Summerton doing the game as he retweeted a video of Kyle Walker singing to the UCL anthem.

Andy May is the reporter at the Leicester game and Lynsey Hipgrave is the presenter at the Spurs game at Wembley.

McManaman looks to be at City tonight as Martin O' Neil has joined Rio and Gary for Brugge V Leicester.

Porto v Copenhagen- Gary Taphouse
Juventus v Sevilla youths- Phil Blacker
Feyenoord v Manchester United- Phil Blacker

Adam Summerton appears to be alongside Don Hutchison on Legia Warsaw v Borussia Dortmund on BT Sport X4.

Interesting, very confusing to guess the main commentator...

EDIT: Jon Champion is on commentary for the Spurs game.