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🗓️ 13 June 2025
⏱️ 25 minutes
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The best bits as John Murray, Ian Dennis & Ali Bruce-Ball talk football, travel & language.
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BBC Sounds / 5 Live commentaries: Sun 2000 England U21 v Slovenia U21, Wed 2000 England U21 v Germany U21.
Glossary so far: 2-0 is a dangerous score, After you Claude, All-Premier League affair, Aplomb, Brace, Brandished, Breaking the deadlock, Bundled over the line, Champions elect / champions apparent, Clinical finish, Commentator’s curse, Coupon buster, Cultured/Educated left foot, Denied by the woodwork, Draught excluder, Elimination line, Fellow countryman, Foot race, Formerly of this parish, Fox in the box, Free hit, Goalmouth scramble, Good touch for a big man, Honeymoon Period, In and around, In the shop window, Keeping ball under their spell, Languishing, Loitering with intent, Marching orders, Nestle in the bottom corner, Numbered derbies, Nutmeg, Opposite number, Park the bus, PK for penalty-kick, Postage stamp, Put their laces through it, Rasping shot, Red wine not white wine, Relegation six-pointer, Rooted at the bottom, Roy of the Rovers stuff, Sending the goalkeeper the wrong way, Sleeping giants, Slide rule pass, Small matter of, Spiders web, Stayed hit, Steepling, Stinging the palms, Stonewall penalty, Straight off the training ground, Stramash, Throw their cap on it, Thruppenny bit head / 50p head, Put it in the mixer, Towering header, Turning into a basketball match, Turning into a cricket score, Walking a disciplinary tightrope, Wand of a left foot, We’ve got a cup tie on our hands, Where the owl sleeps, Winger in their pocket, Wrap foot around it, Your De Bruynes, your Gundogans etc.
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0:00.0 | Before this BBC podcast kicks off, I'd like to tell you about some others you might enjoy. |
0:05.1 | My name's Will Wilkin and I Commission Music Podcast for the BBC. |
0:08.7 | It's a really cool job, but every day we get to tell the incredible stories behind songs, |
0:13.5 | moments and movements, stories of struggle and success, rises and falls, the funny, the ridiculous. |
0:19.1 | And the BBC's position, at the heart of British music |
0:21.7 | means we can tell those stories like no one else. |
0:24.5 | We were, are and always will be right there at the centre of the narrative. |
0:28.6 | So whether you want an insightful take on music right now |
0:31.3 | or a nostalgic deep dive into some of the most famous and infamous moments in music, |
0:36.1 | check out the music podcasts on BBC Sounds. |
0:40.3 | BBC Sounds, music radio podcasts. |
0:44.4 | The Commentator's View with Alastair Bruce Ball, John Murray and Ian Dennis. |
0:52.3 | Hello and welcome to the best of the commentator's view. |
0:55.7 | I'm Ian Dennis, and in this mini-series, |
0:58.0 | we're going to share with you our favourite moments and stories |
1:00.9 | from our debut season on the commentators' view. |
1:04.5 | I'm Ali Bruce Ball, and each Friday we take over your football daily feed |
1:08.1 | to talk about our lives as five live commentators from the |
1:11.3 | games we cover to our European adventures and correspondent John Murray. |
1:16.2 | The language we use and if it wasn't for the commentator's view, the year could have started |
1:21.8 | very differently for Ali. |
1:23.2 | Well the first thing I want to say is this podcast this week has proved an extremely useful exercise already |
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