The Commentators’ View: Arriving late & Ian’s caught sticky-handed
Football Daily
BBC
4.3 • 4.5K Ratings
🗓️ 14 March 2025
⏱️ 57 minutes
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Summary
Conor McNamara returns with Ian Dennis and Ali Bruce-Ball to tell the stories behind the 5 Live commentaries. On the agenda this week: being late for games, who brings the sweets and what it’s like splitting a commentary between commentators. What will be added/removed when it comes to the Great Glossary? And a new record is set in Clash of the Commentators!
02:00 Conor recounts his first 5 Live commentary 03:25 How did Ali fare with his new glasses? 04:25 Who is Chris Sutton’s lookalike? 05:45 Man Utd turn another corner? 07:15 Sweets during commentary 10:35 Being late for commentaries 17:20 More lookalikes and soundalikes 20:45 Conor goes ‘back to the future’ 25:30 Clash of the Commentators 32:20 Commentators splitting a commentary 40:35 Great Glossary of Football Commentary
BBC Sounds / 5 Live Premier League commentaries this weekend: Sat 1500 Ipswich v Nottingham Forest, Sat 1730 Bournemouth v Brentford, Sun 1330 Arsenal v Chelsea, Sun 1330 Fulham v Tottenham on 5 Sports Extra, Sun 1630 Liverpool v Newcastle in the EFL Cup final, Sun 1900 Leicester v Man Utd.
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| 0:00.0 | Football, a game of passion, rivalry and loyalty. |
| 0:05.0 | But decades ago, beneath the cheers and the chance, |
| 0:09.0 | lay a different kind of warfare called hooliganism. |
| 0:13.0 | On a match day, everyone was your enemy. |
| 0:15.0 | We'll uncover the brutal, bloody battles where punching below the belt was a way of life. |
| 0:19.0 | It was just a die of my him. Gangster presents hooligans. |
| 0:22.6 | They were destroying the football club. |
| 0:24.8 | The game I won't. |
| 0:25.9 | Listen first on BBC Sounds. |
| 0:30.8 | BBC Sounds, music, radio, podcast. |
| 0:35.2 | The Commentator's View, with Alistair Bruce Ball, John Murray and Ian Dennis on the Football Daily. |
| 0:42.9 | Hello, welcome to The Commentator's View, where we tell you all about life as five live commentators |
| 0:48.3 | and sometimes reveal the stories you don't always get to hear. |
| 0:52.0 | I'm Alastair Bruce Ball, joined today by our senior football reporter Ian Dennis, |
| 0:55.9 | who's got a long drive ahead of him to Ipswich. |
| 0:58.8 | So, Ian, we're getting this done before you make your way. |
| 1:00.9 | First, am I writing the same first commentary at Portman Road for you this season? |
| 1:04.2 | For a long time, yeah. |
| 1:06.0 | I was just chatting with Connor. |
| 1:08.8 | I at first thought that I hadn't been to Portman Road since my days for radio leads, |
| 1:13.9 | which would be close to 25 years ago. |
| 1:17.3 | But then we were just chatting and saying that we must have done again when they were in the championship |
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