Best of The Commentators' View 2024/25 - Part Two
Football Daily
BBC
4.3 • 4.5K Ratings
🗓️ 20 June 2025
⏱️ 30 minutes
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Summary
The best bits as John Murray, Ian Dennis & Ali Bruce-Ball talk football, travel & language. WhatsApp voicenotes to 08000 289 369 Emails to [email protected] Live show tickets: crossedwires.live/fringe
BBC Sounds / 5 Live commentaries: Sat 2000 Spain v England in U21 Euros quarter-final.
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. |
| 0:39.9 | BBC Sounds, music radio podcasts. |
| 0:44.4 | The Commentator's View with Alistair Bruce Ball, John Murray and Ian Dennis. |
| 0:52.3 | Hello and welcome to Best of the Commentator's View where we're sharing with you some of our favourite moments from our debut series. |
| 1:00.1 | This season correspondent John Murray, senior reporter Ian Dennis and me, Alastair Bruce Ball, have had the privilege of taking you behind the scenes telling the untold stories around our five live commentaries and sharing with |
| 1:11.9 | you our love of football language and travel and we've been happy to answer your questions well |
| 1:18.2 | fairly happy to tcv at bbcc.bc.b.bc.com. including this one from phil in southwick about what we listen to on the way to matches. |
| 1:30.9 | I think I'm more of a podcast guy than a music guy. |
| 1:34.0 | So I actually do a lot of my travelling in the car, |
| 1:37.0 | and I listen to a lot of podcasts and speech radio more than music. |
| 1:41.3 | Although like Ian, I am a, you know, if some music was going to go on, |
| 1:45.3 | the Rain Town album, Ian, of Deacon Blue, that is one of my favourites, I have to say, I'm very much |
| 1:51.7 | on your side there. Well, I mean, I've got the entire back catalogue of Deacon Blue on a USB now, |
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