PLAYING IN AND COMMENTATING ON PLAY-OFF FINALS! WITH SKY SPORTS' CURTIS DAVIES AND GARY WEAVER

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4.8 • 648 Ratings

🗓️ 22 May 2025

⏱️ 57 minutes

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Curtis Davies and Gary Weaver join Ali Maxwell and George Elek to explain what it's like to be a player, pundit or commentator for massive Play-Off matches. Gary reflects on his commentary for the iconic Daniel Ballard goal for Sunderland in the Semi Finals, and Curtis and Gary chat through each of the finals, pitting Sunderland vs Sheffield United, Charlton vs Leyton Orient and Walsall vs Wimbledon. Sky Sports is the only place to watch all three EFL Play-Off finals, with the Championship on Saturday (3pm), League One on Sunday (1pm) and League Two on Monday (3pm). LIVE SHOW TICKETS: https://www.sheffieldtheatres.co.uk/book/instance/822201 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hillsborough holds its breath.
0:05.0	Wembley is waiting.
0:07.0	Can Jack Hunt deliver?
0:09.0	It's Hunt!
0:10.0	It's a playoff miracle!
0:16.0	It's playoff history
0:21.6	When I'm walking on me. You're listening to Not the Top 20 podcast.
0:44.1	We're getting super excited for the EFL playoff finals this weekend,
0:48.1	this part of our wide-ranging preview coverage thereof.
0:52.1	George and myself will be at Wembley for all three with
0:55.0	around 200,000 others drinking it in live, the agony and the ecstasy, but millions
1:00.4	of others will be at home watching Sky Sports coverage of all three as well.
1:05.1	Sunderland Sheffield United, Charlton, Late and Orient and Walsall, Wimbledon.
1:08.9	Now I reckon, George, that 95% of people listening to this
1:13.6	will have grown up wanting to be either a professional footballer
1:17.2	and or a football commentator.
1:20.2	And when you dream of that, when you're growing up,
1:22.6	you think of the big occasions,
1:23.7	Cup finals and playoff finals as well.
1:26.6	So we've got two key members of the Sky Sports team with us who have lived and are indeed living our dreams and can tell us all about those things. Curtis Davis, first and foremost, how are you getting on? I'm good, thank you. We're in the right time of the season, we're at a fun, fun end, so I'm good to go. Good, mate good mate well it's only a couple of weeks ago that
1:45.1	we were at the eFL awards you won the sir tom finney award which goes to someone who made an
1:51.1	outstanding contribution to football and to the eFL through their playing career which um
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