Best of The Commentators' View 2024/25 - Part Three
Football Daily
BBC
4.3 • 4.5K Ratings
🗓️ 1 August 2025
⏱️ 27 minutes
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Summary
The best bits as John Murray, Ian Dennis & Ali Bruce-Ball talk football, travel & language. Also hear from commentators Peter Drury and Conor McNamara. WhatsApp voicenotes to 08000 289 369. Emails to [email protected]
00:55 Peter Drury memories of being on Sports Report, 06:35 Ian Dennis & Izzy Christiansen get caught sticky-handed, 10:35 Conor McNamara gets kick-off time wrong! 13:50 Gadgets and gismos to stay warm in the winter 18:00 Ali’s Shrewsbury story
BBC Sounds / 5 Live commentaries: Sun 3 Aug 1630 Celtic v St Mirren in the Scottish Premiership, Sun 10 Aug 1500 Crystal Palace v Liverpool in the Community Shield.
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, Goalkeepers’ Union, 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.
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | BBC Sounds, Music, radio, podcasts. |
| 0:05.6 | The Commentator's View with Alistair Bruce Ball, John Murray and Ian Dennis. |
| 0:13.2 | Hello, welcome to the last episode in this mini-series, best of The Commentator's View, |
| 0:20.2 | where we've been sharing some of our favorite moments |
| 0:23.1 | and stories from our debut season on your football daily feed. I'm John Murray and every |
| 0:28.1 | Friday on the commentator's view I jump on with senior reporter Ian Dennis. Is that allowed? |
| 0:34.6 | Anyway, that's what we do. And Ali Bruce Ball as well, jump on you as well, |
| 0:39.7 | to talk about our lives as five live commentators, |
| 0:42.8 | the fabulous football, the travel, travails, and our love of language. |
| 0:46.9 | And talking about love of language, |
| 0:48.6 | there was no better guest to join us than Sky Sports Lead commentator, |
| 0:52.6 | Peter Drury, who has history, of course, of being on Five |
| 0:56.1 | Live Sports Report. To me, it was the greatest privilege. It was the greatest. Wow, I'm going to be |
| 1:02.5 | a sports report, and it was the most important piece of work every week. And this is not being, you know, |
| 1:10.4 | better in my day, sort of old man thing. I feel the poorer |
| 1:15.4 | without that to listen to now and without the capacity, of course, to do that sort of work. But time has moved on and |
| 1:22.2 | so on. And mention Brian Butler, listen, it's the height of arrogance to quote yourself. |
| 1:28.8 | But I suppose like everybody, I remember my first sports report piece, which was a game |
| 1:34.0 | between Crystal Palace and Stoke in the second division when I was still on the local radio desk. |
| 1:39.1 | And I got, you know, I got a game. |
| 1:41.5 | And I was so excited. |
| 1:43.4 | And I remember doing a piece, John Invedale was the presenter, |
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