John Murray has done a few England friendlies when either Green or Ingham have missed out. I know last year when Green hurt his leg Murray took his place for a game.

Following the retirement of Alistair Hignell from the BBC, Alistair Eykyn becomes the Corporation's 2nd Choice Rugby Union Commentator as stated Here

BBC Radio 5 Live Sports Xtra

St. Helens V Hull K.R (Super League RL) - David Oates (St. Helens and Host) George Riley (Hull) and Andy Wilson (The Guardian) as Summariser.

England V New Zealand (Cricket 3rd Test) - Pat Murphy (report)

New Zealand V Ireland (International RU Friendly from Wellington)

RTE Radio 1 Extra - David _____ (Host) Connor McGuiness alongside him. John Kelly in their Cork Studio for Build-up. Michael Corcoran and Ian Smith (Ex-New Zealand, now works for Sky TV New Zealand) as Commentary Team.

5 Live

Switzerland v Czech Republic- Mike Ingham, Alan Green and Chris Waddle
Portugal v Turkey- Conor McNamara, Darren Fletcher and Jan Molby

South Africa V Wales (International RU Friendly from Bloemflontein)

BBC Radio Cymru - Huw Llewellyn Davis (also Host) and Emyr Lewis
BBC Radio Wales - Gareth Thomas (Studio Host) and Tony Clement. Gareth Charles and Brayton Paulse as Commentary Team
BBC Radio 5 Live - Nick Mullins and Robert Jones (Updates)
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Some More BBC Radio People:-

The Derby at Epsom - Mark Saggers (Host) Cornelius Lysaght (Co-Host) Rob Nothman (Betting) John Hunt (Commentator) Jason Weaver (Winning Post) Luke Harvey (Start Line)
French Open Tennis Women's Final:- Jonathan Overend (5 Live) / Russell Fuller and Neil Harman (The Times) (BBC WS)
England V New Zealand (Cricket 3rd Test) - Pat Murphy. Lee ____ and Alec Stewart (BBC WS)

Alex Capstick - Fan Park in Basle (BBC WS)
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Lee James is covering the Test Match (instead of the usual Chris Florence) on World Service. The other two are also on Five Live. Guy Swindells on IRN at Trent Bridge.

Argentina V Scotland (International RU Friendly from Rosario)

BBC Radio Scotland MW - Signal VERY Weak, Can't make out any Voices (plus I'm having to deal with Someone mowing their Lawn Outside!) Anyone able to Help?

Edit: BBC Scotland's Sportsound site says:- Tune in for live coverage of Scotland's test against Argentina with John Beattie, Gary Parker and Peter Wright. Commentary from Bill Johnstone.


This must've been updated within the last 3 hours, it stated MW only when I checked at 5pm.

Dammit - Too late to Edit. It's Bill Johnstone and David Callum as Commentary Team. John Beattie is Host and Peter Wright with him in the Studio. (Listening Online ATM)
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5 Live

Austria v Croatia- Ian Dennis, Simon Brotherton and Steve McClaren
Germany v Poland- John Murray, Ian Brown and Graham Taylor

I know Conor McNamara was at Portgual v Turkey for Five Live last night, but does anyone else know the other details? (I'm guessing at Green and Ingham for Switzerland v Czech Republic, with it being the opening game and all.)

See Post #30 by Tony Yeboah

Good commentary from Conor, Darren and Jan last night on the Portugal vs. Turkey game. I chose to listen to 5 Live and turn the sound down on ITV1 as David Pleat was annoying me! Anyway, to be honest, I think that 5 Live are somewhat blessed with a commentary dream team. The only one that I don't really like is Ian Brown, but he's still good at what he does. I suspect it'll be Ingham and Green for the big game tomorrow night, seeing as it's probably the biggest game of this first round of group games!

Woops! Sorry.

5 Live

France v Romania

Darren Fletcher, Chris Waddle & Conor McNamara

Netherlands v Italy

Mike Ingham, Alan Green and Jan Molby

5 Live

Russia v Spain - Simon Brotherton, Graham Taylor & John Murray
Greece v Sweden - Ian Dennis, Steve McLaren & Ian Brown

Tennis from Queens, London - Dave Luddy for talkSPORT
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I've just returned from my firm's Rotterdam office where, but for one (Italian) colleague, they are celebrating the great win of HOLLAND. At least I learned today what they call the Dutch team.

5 Live

Czech Rep v Portugal - Conor McNamara, Chris Waddle & Alan Green
Switzerland v Turkey - Darren Fletcher, Jan Molby & Mike Ingham

Slightly surprised that Green/Ingham have been split.

I agree with your point about Green and Ingham Shaun_d. They always seem to be together if they're both at a game.

Anyway...

Euro 2008 - Group B:-
17:00 - Croatia vs. Germany:
BBC Radio 5 Live - Ian Brown, Jon Murray and Steve McClaren.

19:45 - Austria vs. Poland:
BBC Radio 5 Live - Ian Dennis, Simon Brotherton and Graham Taylor.

Good commentary on Croatia/Germany on 5 Live, even though I still feel that McClaren shouldn't be doing the punditry for 5 Live... But there you go!

Euro 2008 - Group C:-
17:00 - Italy vs. Romania:
BBC Radio 5 Live - Conor MacNamara, Darren Fletcher and Dean Saunders.

19:45 - The Netherlands vs. France:
BBC Radio 5 Live - Mike Ingham, Alan Green and Chris Waddle.

New Zealand V England (International RU Friendly from Auckland)

BBC Radio 5 Live - Alistair Eykyn (1-20) (Host) Ian Robertson (20-40) and Matt Dawson
talkSPORT - Mike Bovill
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Australia V Ireland (International RU Friendly from Melbourne)

RTE Radio 1 Extra - Damien O'Mara (Host) and Conor McGuiness in Dublin. John Kelly in their Cork Studio for Build-up.

Commentary: Michael Corcoran and Alan Gaffney