The Commentators’ View: Conor goes viral & Ian’s Bantam tantrum
Football Daily
BBC
4.3 • 4.5K Ratings
🗓️ 25 April 2025
⏱️ 57 minutes
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Summary
John Murray, Ian Dennis & Ali Bruce-Ball discuss Liverpool and Celtic being on the verge of titles. They’re joined by Conor McNamara after he went viral for his 5 Live Man Utd-Lyon commentary. Will Ali be toppled by Ian in Clash of the Commentators? How high will the high bar be for the Great Glossary of Football Commentary? And John bowls us over with his plans for the weekend in London.
01:30 Liverpool and Celtic on the verge of titles 06:10 Conor McNamara reflects on going viral 25:15 Some big 5 Live commentaries this weekend 33:35 More Clash of the Commentators controversy? 41:25 Will anything be added to the Great Glossary? 53:35 John reveals his exciting weekend plans
BBC Sounds / 5 Live / Radio 5 Sports Extra weekend commentaries: Sat 1500 Newcastle v Ipswich in the Premier League, Sat 1715 Crystal Palace v Aston Villa in the FA Cup semis, Sun 1400 Bournemouth v Man Utd in the Premier League, Sun 1400 Chelsea v Barcelona in the Women’s Champions League, Sun 1630 Liverpool v Tottenham in the Premier League, Sun 1630 Nottingham Forest v Man City in the FA Cup semis.
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| 0:00.0 | A new series of Match of the Day Top Ten is out now, only available on BBC Sounds. |
| 0:06.9 | Join myself, Garelinica, Alan Shearer, Micah Richards and My Dog, as we dig into the top 10 of the Champions League. |
| 0:14.3 | We go through our favourite goal scorer's, best moment, and even our all-time 11th. |
| 0:19.0 | Now that, gentleman, is a list. No, we'll needn't get a list. Match of the Day all time 11th. Now that, gentlemen, is a list. |
| 0:21.5 | No, we'll need you get on a list. |
| 0:23.4 | Match of the day, |
| 0:24.6 | top 10 Champions League. |
| 0:26.7 | Listen, only on BBC Sounds. |
| 0:31.1 | BBC Sounds, |
| 0:32.6 | music, radio, podcasts. |
| 0:35.4 | The Commentator's View |
| 0:37.3 | with Alistair Bruce Ball, John Murray and Ian Dennis on the Football |
| 0:42.2 | Daily. |
| 0:43.4 | Hello, welcome to the Football Daily. |
| 0:45.8 | This is The Commentator's View. |
| 0:47.3 | I'm Alastair Bruce Ball. |
| 0:48.5 | And if you're new to this, then thank you for joining. |
| 0:50.8 | This is where we, the Five Live commentators, try and take you behind the microphone. |
| 0:55.6 | We talk about the games we cover, the people we speak to, the places we get to see, |
| 1:00.4 | John Murray's travel mishaps along the way, and crucially the words we use, the vocabulary |
| 1:06.2 | of commentary, and we will get on to our great glossary of football commentary later in the pod. |
| 1:12.3 | But first of all, let's bid good morning to our regulars. |
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