Originally Posted by The Scout:
“Some tight scheduling by Sky today. Coverage of this game ended precisely 2 minutes after the final whistle to move onto the live rugby. I don't know what they would have done if the game had a long injury delay or something...”
They always shove these matches in during international breaks, and for some reason they always seem to have loads of injury time. We had six minutes of injury time at Oxford earlier, and given the two matches were kicking off at 12.15 and 2.15 that cut it extremely fine. I don't know why the Oxford match didn't kick off at noon actually.
Originally Posted by bwfcol:
“I presumed Martin & Alan covered England for Sky?”
They did indeed, and also David Tanner spoke to Alan Smith from Wembley in the build-up to the Scotland game. Odd to see Tanner in the studio, I assume that meant he presented the England highlights as well?
Originally Posted by The Difference:
“Saturday 8th October - Channel 5
Football on 5: Goal Rush
Lynsey Hipgrave presented alongside Nathan Jones and Adam Virgo”
Busy day for Adam Virgo, having been at Tranmere earlier on. The sound was completely out of sync for the vast majority of this programme, it looked like there was a massive breakdown during the first ad break, leading to a load of blank screen, and when it came back the sound was out of sync for the rest of the show. I wondered if it was my box for a bit until I checked other channels. Happened on SD and HD too.
Since we've now had a complete round of international fixtures, here are all the home nations together in one post...
Austria vs Wales - Introduced by Simon Thomas with Jack Collison and Dean Saunders, commentary by Bill Leslie and Barry Horne
Ireland vs Georgia - Introduced by Pete Graves with Niall Quinn, commentary by Rob Hawthorne and Ray Houghton
England vs Malta - Introduced by Mark Pougatch with Lee Dixon, Ryan Giggs and Ian Wright, commentary by Clive Tyldesley and Glenn Hoddle
Scotland vs Lithuania - Introduced by David Tanner with Neil McCann and Alex McLeish, commentary by Ian Crocker and Davie Provan
Northern Ireland vs San Marino - Introduced by Graham Little with Gerry Taggart, commentary by Daniel Mann and Gerry Armstrong
And the weekend's domestic football...
Peterborough vs Bury - Introduced by George Gavin with Peter Beagrie and Jack Collison, commentary by Gary Weaver and Garry Birtles
Tranmere vs Wrexham - Introduced by Matt Smith with Kevin Davies and Dean Saunders, commentary by Steve Bower and Adam Virgo
The Football League on Sky Sports - Introduced by George Gavin with Ian Holloway, Oxford vs Wimbledon commentary by Rob Palmer and David Prutton, Franchise vs Port Vale commentary by Gary Weaver and Danny Higginbotham
Quite impressive that Steve Bower is happy to continue his association with the Conference and do as many matches as he can when he's available (unlike Mark Clemmit packing it in completely when the majority began to clash with his other work). Not sure if Adam Summerton is so impressed with being asked to stand down every time a bigger name is available. Like Wilf McGuinness to Bower's Matt Busby, always in the shadow of his predecessor.