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The Commentators’ View: Ian gets wet & Ali goes deep

Football Daily

BBC

Sports, Soccer

4.34.6K Ratings

🗓️ 6 December 2024

⏱️ 37 minutes

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Summary

John Murray, Ian Dennis and Alistair Bruce-Ball reveal the stories behind the 5 Live commentaries. From commentating in the pouring rain with colleagues in their underwear, to a big medical drama, they tell the tales you don’t normally get to hear. And the ‘Wheel of Spiel’ makes a return!

01:35 John gets a surprise 03:30 Ian has an apology to make 04:20 Commentating in the rain 09:20 Ian nearly ends his career 14:30 ‘Wheel of Spiel’ goes deep 19:00 Favourite commentary positions 22:55 Tottenham-Chelsea preview 27:10 John’s big medical drama 29:45 Ali’s new toys! 31:20 The Great Dictionary of Football Commentary

BBC Sounds / 5 Live Premier League commentaries this weekend: Sat 7 Dec, 15:00 – Crystal Palace v Man City - 5 Live Sat 7 Dec, 17:30 – Man Utd v Nottingham Forest - 5 Live Sun 8 Dec, 14:00 – Fulham v Arsenal - 5 Live Sun 8 Dec, 14:00 – Leicester v Brighton – 5 Sports Extra Sun 8 Dec, 14:00 – Ipswich v Bournemouth – BBC Sport website Sun 8 Dec, 16:30 – Tottenham v Chelsea - 5 Live

Transcript

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0:00.0

Hello, I'm Andrew Hunter Murray, host of The Naked Week, a brand new comedy where you'll

0:06.5

probably find this kind of thing.

0:08.2

Nigel Farage, got into a punch-up with a wumble.

0:10.1

On the moon.

0:10.8

Don't be ridiculous, Duncan, there are no wumbles on the moon.

0:13.4

And this sort of thing.

0:14.6

You, Les, it's made Sadiq Khan, London's most unpopular mayor since Dick Whittington

0:18.7

charged his cat 12 quid to enter its own litter tray.

0:22.6

So join me as we go behind the headlines with unexpected guests and much satirical silliness.

0:27.9

The Naked Week. Listen on BBC Sounds.

0:31.7

BBC Sounds, music, radio podcasts.

0:36.2

The Commentator's View with Alistair Bruce Ball, John Murray and Ian Dennis on the Football Daily.

0:43.9

Hello, I'm John Murray, and welcome to The Commentator's View.

0:47.4

This is number three as we try and give you a look at what life as a five-life football commentator is like

0:53.8

and tell you some of

0:55.6

the stories that you don't always get to hear and have some in inverted commas fun and games

1:00.9

along the way i am joined of course by alister bruce ball and ian dennis we're all in remote locations

1:07.4

we've had a little bit of a do haven haven't we, to get it all working.

1:12.6

I'm in the very epicenter of the BBC at Broadcasting House, yet I've had more problems than anyone else.

1:19.6

Well, looking at your camera, John, we've seen you sort of looking slightly puzzled and pushing buttons and twisting knobs,

1:25.6

and then two engineers have come in to try and sort it out three engineers three engineers and then after about 15 minutes we're ready to go thanks to your abilities to get on your phone and your iPad and everything else at the same time we're just about to go and deno gets a knock on the door yeah and deno disappears who is at the door takes another couple of minutes never you mind who is at the. There's a recurring thing though about these last three weeks that you've been late or you've been

1:47.0

holding them up for three successive weeks. I've been in here for three hours waiting for

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