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The Scott Mills Weekly

Scott's Football Commentary Debut

The Scott Mills Weekly

BBC

Society & Culture

4.85.2K Ratings

🗓️ 16 June 2020

⏱️ 10 minutes

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Summary

Remembering back to the first time Scott & Chris took on the role of football commentary, back in the 2014 World Cup Finals where Chris became more and more wound up by Scott's incredible lack of football knowledge.

Transcript

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0:00.0

BBC sounds, music, radio, podcasts.

0:04.8

The Scott Mills Daily.

0:06.0

We're not on this week, we're back next week,

0:07.6

but here's some good bits from yesterday here.

0:09.9

Huh!

0:14.5

So Friday, for me, when we did the alternative football

0:18.6

coverage on the BBC Red button, was genuinely terrifying.

0:23.8

I was hoping it would be kind of comedy bad,

0:26.1

and we'd be able to kind of like just lull around.

0:28.7

And I thought that I would feel much more in control of it,

0:31.7

like I normally do when I'm on the radio,

0:33.2

I've done it for many years.

0:34.2

Yeah.

0:35.2

I feel really, I feel like I'm in control.

0:37.8

I felt like I was free falling on Friday night.

0:40.6

I didn't know what to do.

0:41.6

Ah, but that was the difference,

0:42.6

because you were having to respond to situations.

0:45.5

You know, you obviously can't predict

0:46.7

before how the game's going to be.

0:47.9

You've just got to talk about what you see.

0:49.6

But I don't know any of the players,

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