Who did 5Live's games today?

I am sorry but was unable to augment the Talk Sport coverage with regard to cricket and rugby yesterday. During my dips into Talk Sport, it was only football that was being covered.

Meanwhile, today's coverage was thus:

BBC Radio Five Live
Manchester City v Manchester United Mike Ingham, Simon Brotherton and Chris Waddle with Alistair Yeomans (commentary)
Aberdeen v Celtic Scott Davie, who was commentating with Billy Dodds, Joe Miller and Chick Young on BBC Radio Scotland
Sheffield Wednesday v Wolves Nick Barnes
Liverpool v Chelsea John Murray, Alan Green and Mark Lawrenson (commentary)
Blackburn v Arsenal

BBC Radio Manchester
Man City v Man Utd Steve Wyeth, Ian Cheeseman, Arthur Albiston and Brian Horton (commentary)

BBC Radio Sheffield
Sheff Wed v Wolves Seth Bennett, Paul Walker and John Pearson (commentary) Where is Luke Wileman?
Rotherham v Peterborough Gareth Jones

BBC London 94.9FM
Arsenal at Blackburn Mark Taylor
Chelsea at Liverpool Clive Edwards

Real Radio DAB in London
Chelsea at Liverpool Gary Taphouse and Graham ? (commentary)

RTE Radio
Man City v Man Utd Peter Smith
Liverpool at Chelsea John Keith

Thanks for that info, anyone know who was at Blackburn for 5Live?

I also forgot to mention that I was throughly impressed with Stan Collymore yesterday, I hope he gets more games

It was Darren Fletcher.

Stan Collymore is mentioned in the Five Live press release for this season so I expect he'll do plenty of games.

Beacon Radio Bill Hatton and Robbie Dennison (commentary)

Daniel Mann did the Manchester derby with Andy Hinchcliffe on Piccadilly Magic 1152.

That's three Man City games three different main commentators after Hugh Ferris and Chris Mallaband did the first two.

I don't think Ferris missed a game last season so I'm not sure if he's ill or something.

Who did the game for XFM? Garry Weaver was at Blackburn so it can't have been him. Real Radio's summariser would have been Graham Stuart I imagine.

I assume that Chris Cooper may have been commentating. This is guessing.

Saturday 25th August
Sunderland v Liverpool (12:45pm) – Graham Courtney
Arsenal v Manchester City – Mike Bovill
Aston Villa v Fulham – Ian Danter
Bolton v Reading – Dominic McGuinness
Chelsea v Portsmouth – Nigel Pearson, Ian Abrahams & Alvin Martin (commentary)
Derby v Birmingham – Dave Rowe
West Ham v Wigan – Andrew McKenna
Everton v Blackburn (5:15pm) – Graham Beecroft

Leicester v Watford – Kevin Lawrence
Preston v Colchester – Eammon Watson
Southampton v Stoke – Tony Incenzo
Sheffield United v West Brom (5:20pm) – John Temple

This suggests that Arsenal v Man City may be the BBC commentary game (with John Murray commentating).

BBC Radio Five Live

Sunderland v Liverpool (1245) Ian Dennis, Conor Macnamara and Chris Waddle (commentary)
Arsenal v Manchester City John Murray and Mark Bright (commentary)
Aston Villa v Fulham Darren Fletcher
Bolton v Reading Stuart Hall
Chelsea v Portsmouth Mark Pougatch (host)
Derby v Birmingham Alistair Bruce-Ball
West Ham v Wigan Jacqui Oatley
Leicester v Watford Mike Sewell
Southampton v Stoke Vasos Alexander
Wolves v Blackpool Simon Mann
Nottm Forest v Leeds Mark Clemmitt
Kilmarnock v Rangers (1230) Juliette Ferrington
Celtic v Hearts Roddy Forsyth

IRN (and Capital Gold)
Arsenal v Man City Jules Warren (Mark Scott)
Aston Villa v Fulham Paul McDowell
Bolton v Reading Pete Smith
Derby v Birmingham Steve Jackson
Chelsea v Portsmouth Elliot Cook (Russell Hargreaves)
Sunderland v Liverpool Dave Donaldson
West Ham v Wigan Andrew Cheal

BBC London 94.9FM
Arsenal v Man City Simon Watts
Aston Villa v Fulham Emma Jones
Chelsea v Portsmouth Chris Slegg
West Ham v Wigan Nick Goodwin (FM commentary)
Charlton v Sheff Wed Jonathan Beck (DAB commentary)
Leicester v Watford John Marks
Crewe v Leyton Orient Dave Victor
Southend v Millwall Deano Standing
Brentford v Barnet Barry Swain
Chester v Dagenham and Redbridge Mark Taylor


BBC Radio Newcastle
Sunderland v Liverpool Nick Barnes and Gary Rowell (commentary)

Mark Donaldson does talkSPORT's SPL preview and post-match round-up. He's not at any games but does an overview for talkSPORT.

Simon Ward was at Scotland v South Africa.

Ian Dennis is an excellent commentator - made a refreshing change from Alan Green banging on about Liverpool, referees, etc. The only downside was the dull, dour Chris Waddle as co-commentator.

Great thread - full of interesting information.

Here's some details of local radio commentators I picked up today.

BBC Radio Newcastle:

Sunderland v Liverpool Nick Barnes & Gary Bennett (Commentary)

Century FM (North-East) Simon Crabtree & Gary Rowell (Commentary)

Metro/Magic 1152 from this season are no longer doing football commentary of either Newcastle or Sunderland matches.

BBC Tees

Darlington v Notts County Ray Simpson
Port Vale v Hartlepool Ivan Ash

Extended Reports/short spells of commentary

BBC Radio Wales

Cardiff v Coventry Rob Phillips & Kevin Ratcliffe (Commentary on FM in S.E Wales)

Walsall v Swansea Simon Davis & Dave Phillips (Commentary on FM in S.W Wales)

Bradford v Wrexham Roger Hughes & Dixie McNeill (Commentary on FM in N.Wales)

BBC Radio Scotland

Kilmarnock v Rangers John Barnes & Billy Dodds

Celtic v Hearts David Begg & Murdo McLeod

Hibernian v Aberdeen Paul Mitchell & ?

Inverness v Dundee Utd Scott Davie & ?

Gretna v Motherwell Khereddine Idessane & Alan Preston

Falkirk v St Mirren Jim Spence & Maurice Malpas

(Commentary of all matches either on AM/FM or on-line)

Anyone know who did 5 Live's games yesterday (and 5:15 game on Saturday)?

Tuesday 28th August
Liverpool v Toulouse (8:05pm) – Graham Beecroft
Rangers v Red Star Belgrade (8:00pm) – Jon Norman

Birmingham v Hereford – Ian Danter
Charlton v Stockport – Andy Clarke
Derby v Blackpool – Dave Rowe
Bristol Rovers v West Ham – Dominic McGuinness
Nottingham Forest v Leicester - Geoff Peters
Luton v Sunderland – Ian Abrahams
Portsmouth v Leeds – Mike Bovill
Swansea v Reading – Gareth Williams
Wolves v Morecambe – Nigel Pearson
Wrexham v Aston Villa – Grahame Lloyd

Saturday

Everton v Blackburn - Nigel Adderley, Kevin Gallacher and Mike Ingham

Sunday
Middlesbrough v Newcaste - Ian Dennis (reports only)

Commentary was on Sports Extra with Darren Fletcher, Steve Stone and Alistair Bruce-Ball

Man Utd v Spurs - Ian Brown, Dean Saunders, Alan Green

Thanks for the info
I also agree about Ian Dennis, he is a good commentator

Thanks MUZZAMAN and welcome to the thread.

I shall try to find some of the local commentators/reporters in the South next weekend. We could also do with details from other regions.

Alan Green, Connor McNamara and Paul Jewell doing Liverpool/Toulouse

Continuing BBC Radio Five Live reporters

Derby v Blackpool Peter Slater
Bristol Rovers v West Ham Nigel Adderley
Luton v Sunderland David Oates
Nottingham Forest v Leicester City Arlo White
Portsmouth v Leeds United Alistair Bruce-Ball
Shrewsbury v Fulham Juliette Ferrington


In addition, Reading 107FM carries commentary on Reading and the commentary team seems to be Mark Tompkins, Michael Gillkes and Barry Hunter.

On Radio Clyde for Red Star Belgrade v Rangers they had the usual commentary group of Peter Martin,Darryl King and Derek Johnstone at the ground while Fraser Wishart was giving the odd comment from the Clyde studios in Clydebank.Peter will also be commentating on Celtic v Spartak tomorrow.