Fighting Talk Favourites 2025

Fighting Talk

BBC

Comedy, Sports

4.7 • 3K Ratings

🗓️ 31 January 2026

⏱️ 59 minutes

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Summary

Fighting Talk is off this week for the Australian Open tennis finals, and we didn’t want to leave you without your weekly dose of FT. Here’s some of our favourite moments from last year as Rick Edwards presents highlights of our sporting punditry and pundits from Fighting Talk across 2025.

We’ll be back next Saturday with our next live show and podcast.

Transcript

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0:00.0	BBC Sounds, Music, Radio Podcasts.
0:05.7	Hello, you're about to listen to a BBC podcast, and I'm Ed Gamble, host of another BBC podcast, The Traitors Uncloaked.
0:12.7	But my show is available only on BBC Sounds, just like Ellis and John's Saturday bonus episodes,
0:18.2	The Pop Top Ten podcast with Scott Mills and Rylan, and comedy specials
0:22.2	from the likes of Harriet Kemsley, Susie Ruffle and Rommashranganathan.
0:26.0	However, and maybe I'm biased, it's really all about the traitors uncoaked.
0:30.3	So for a whole bunch of exclusive scoops and podcasts, listen only on BBC Sounds.
0:35.6	I'm Rick Edwards and this is Fighting Talk.
0:50.9	Welcome to Fighting Talk's favourite bits from 2025.
1:00.6	We've spent literally hours trawling the archives to introduce to you the ultimate fighting talk panellist.
1:06.4	Runner, presenter, the second oldest panellist on the show. A humble chutney maker from Crawley.
1:27.5	Award winning podcaster, Mechalotatatabothera, called a nepo baby by Ivo Graham. New bookout, fighting talks only mononym. Predicted that the next Premier League manager to be sacks would be Ange Poster Coglu. Since we've been booked onto just about every celebrity show this winter, comedian, Celtic fan, heading out on a UK tour. 15th season of fighting talk. Reliable finalistsists though, with a neck full of medals,
1:34.4	netball, er, Lloyd, England netball, head coach, big issue billionaire, the guy for the football ramble.
1:39.8	And if such a person existed, I'd have to instantly award them all the points and then end the show.
1:46.3	Fortunately, they don't. So instead, here's a selection of our highlights from the past year,
1:50.3	and you can play along by working out who each of the panellists described in that montage were.
1:52.2	We start with this.
1:57.5	The European team were welcomed by rowdy and disruptive US golf fans at this year's Ryder Cup in New York.
2:01.5	We wanted to know who are the second worst set of fans in sport.
2:06.8	Our foursome for this round, comic Chloe Petz, broadcaster Martin Kelner, Sprinter, Nathaniel Mitchell Blake and teeing our first journalist John Cross. I'm going to go Philadelphia sports fans,
2:12.5	renowned for booing their own teams, particularly baseball's Phillies and the NFL's Eagles.
2:18.2	Eagles fans booed their own head coach two games into the season in 2024,
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