People seeemd a bit confused when Sky picked Leicester/Chelsea

However, it rated at 875k, 100k more than last night Utd's game which maybe had a longer build up and it was up against Bake Off.

Would the Liverpool or Arsenal games rated better?

Sunday 2 October on RTE2

Dundalk v Derry City- Peter Collins presents. With commentary by Ger Canning and Pat Morley and reports from Joanne Cantwell.

St. Patrick's Athletic v Cork City- Peter Collins presents. With commentary by George Hamilton and Brian Kerr and reports from Tony O'Donoghue.

The 875k was for the programme up to its scheduled end time of 10pm - so included about 20 mins extra-time and more importantly zero post match - both of which would obviously have significantly inflated the rating.

However it was still a pretty good rating - I think the answer to your question is that the Liverpool and Arsenal games would have rated similarly (on a like for like basis) but the fact the Leicester game played out as it did meant that in retrospect it was the best game to have picked.

Borussia Dortmund v Freiburg and Borussia Monchengladbach v FC Ingolstadt 04- Dan O'Hagan

Bruce Millington on football commentators http://www.racingpost.com/news/sport...t/2160940/top/
Article on John Dykes http://worldsoccertalk.com/2016/09/2...e-productions/

Man Utd v Leicester- Simon Botherton for MotD
Aberdeen v Rangers- Tom Miller and Hugh Burns for RangersTV

An interesting development.... Lineker is claiming he is doing CL coverage for BT next week but my EPG saying that Matt Smith will host Leicester V Porto and Lysney Hipgrave hosting Celtic V Man City. Smith is joined by Glenn Hoddle and Jermaine Jenas on Tuesday and Hipgrave is joined by Ian Wright and Owen Hargreaves on Wednesday.

My guess is that they are going to use the team for CSKA Moscow V Spurs and Arsenal V Basel team for the highlights show and Gary Lineker will be on-site for both the Leicester and Celtic/Man City games and will be presenting those games on BT Sport 2 with a different team. Bit odd if that's the case as they could have used the main team for the highlights show, or it could be a cock up on the Sky EPG.

Also Gianfranco Zola is joing Rio Ferdinand, Ian Wright and Jake Humphrey for Arsenal V Chelsea, Zola is also listed for PL Tonight on the EPG.

Does anyone know the reason why Kevin Keatings and Gerry Armstrong aren't part of Sky's La Liga coverage?

By the way, sorry if I've posted this in the wrong place.

Kevin Keatings is commentating on Valencia v Alaves later this evening

Stoke v West Brom- Phil Blacker
Beijing Guoan v Shandong Luneng- Phil Blacker

Thanks for the reply, I should have mentioned I'm still watching La Liga Week 2 games, so I'm obviously a bit behind. I'm sure keatings didn't do any La Liga Week 1 games which is what prompted my question. Anyway thanks again.

He was out in Rio at the time working on the Olympics world feed.

If they are going to use the team for the highlights show then it'll be a little bit like PL Tonight by which the co-comms join the punditry coverage. Seems quite clear to me that Jenas and Hargreaves will be commentating on the Tottenham and Arsenal games respectively. 'Arry and a guest appearance for another ex-Arsenal player probably make up those numbers.

I think it will be interesting to see how they cover Celtic-Man City. Personally, I think Rio will be joined by 2 pundits rather than the customary one (probably Dunne and Hartson), and I think BT will jump at the chance of a 3 man commentary team of Fletcher, McManaman and Sutton (for better or (most probably) for worse ).

Wonder if Fletch will be on both main matches this weekend however. Given that both main games are based in Britain, it shouldn't be too difficult to get him to both venues. It would be a shame for Darke if so, who would probably be on the Spurs match. Alternatively, Darke may be on the Leicester match, and therefore probably the Arsenal match, leaving Fletcher in Scotland and ready to cover United on Thursday night.

Nice to see a decent punditry line-up for Saturday's match (BT's biggest game of the season so far). I worried it would just be Rio and Wright, or Rio, Wright and Hoddle with Francis on as a 3rd man comm (thank our lucky stars).

Darrell Currie presented from Pittodrie with Chris Sutton. Eilidh Barbour reported.

Bournemouth v Everton- John Motson
Swansea v Man City- Jonathan Pearce
Stoke v WBA- Martin Fisher
Boro v Spurs- Guy Mowbray

Sunderland v Palace- Alistair Mann
Liverpool v Hull- Alan Green
Arsenal v Chelsea- Steve Wilson

West Ham v Soton- Guy Mowbray

To compile all the details into one place


Man United v Leicester - Simon Brotherton
Bournemouth v Everton - John Motson
Liverpool v Hull - Alan Green
Middlesbrough v Tottenham - Guy Mowbray
Stoke v West Brom - Martin Fisher
Sunderland v Crystal Palace - Alistair Mann
Swansea v Man City - Jonathan Pearce
Arsenal v Chelsea - Steve Wilson


West Ham v Southampton - Guy Mowbray

Fletcher, McManaman and Hoddle the 3 man commentary team at the Emirates.

Filling in some of the gaps from the midweek matches:

Tuesday:

Spanish La Liga - Malaga v Eibar:

Sky Sports - Jon Driscoll and David Phillips



Italian Serie A - AC Milan v Lazio:

BT Sport - Dave Farrar and Jim Beglin



French Ligue 1 - Paris Saint-Germain v Dijon:

BT Sport ESPN - Paul Walker



Spanish La Liga - Sevilla v Real Betis:

Sky Sports - Rob Palmer and Terry Gibson



Wednesday:

French Ligue 1 - Rennes v Marseille:

BT Sport Extra 2 - David Crossan



Thursday:

Spanish La Liga - Valencia v Alaves:

Sky Sports - Kevin Keatings and Gerry Armstrong




I may not be around to help post some commentator details for some of tonight's matches.

That sounds horrible for such a big game.

(Thank god I'm going and can just suffer the Arsenal performance rather than the commentary!)

I thought they'd go Fletcher, Hargreaves and Hoddle (probably BT's 'best' 3 man setup) but at least they didn't stick Francis (or if you'd prefer, Grandad from Mrs Brown's Boys ) on like I thought they might have.

I think we can back this up as the UEFA Europa League highlights show on BT Sport 2 is being presented by Hipgrave and she is joined by Kevin Davies, Gordon Strachman and Julien Laurens which looks like it's being done in the BT Sport Studio, so I expect that's the team for the Southampton game.

Close as far as Darke is concerned, he is covering Leicester again but also Man Utd on Thurs.

It really is and if Macnanaman is in one of his friendly moods it could be "Fletch" all the way tomorrow.

For the time being at least it's one thing we are going to have to accept, Fletcher wll do all the big games just like Jake will continue to present their Prem coverage.

No way have either of them got the "Big" game commentary/presenting in them.

Interesting as again no Champion's league, or seemingly not for Humphreys.

Presented from Deepdale by Scott Minto, alongside Peter Beagrie and Kevin Davies.

Commentators - Gary Weaver and Andy Hinchcliffe



Commentators - Dave Farrar & Don Hutchison

Will be interesting to see what happens next week as Darren Fletcher tweeted he will be at the first NFL game on Sunday the same day as BT are showing Man Utd Stoke.

Wonder if he will do both meaning a quick dash from Old Trafford to where ever the game is taking place.

If i got the dates all wrong feel free to call me a numpty!

New York City FC v Chicago Fire- Callum Williams and Alan Curbishley

Manchester United v Leicester City- Steve Bower and Phil Neville
Liverpool v Hull City- Tony Jones and David Prutton
Swansea City v Manchester City- Jim Proudfoot and Matt Holland
Middlesbrough v Tottenham- Ian Crocker and Neil McCann
Bournemouth v Everton- Bill Leslie and Tony Gale
Sunderland v Crystal Palace- David Stowell and Andy Walker
Stoke City v West Brom- Phil Blacker and Keith Andrews
West Ham v Southampton- Jon Champion and Jim Beglin
Burnley v Watford- Martin Tyler and Danny Higginbotham