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🗓️ 14 February 2025
⏱️ 48 minutes
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John Murray, Ian Dennis and Alistair Bruce-Ball tell the tales you don’t normally get to hear. Hear Ian’s story about his ‘clanger’ at Leeds United, Clash of the Commentators breaks new ground as Ali and Ian go head-to-head. And the panel also reflect on Champions League drama, Merseyside madness and tough times for Tottenham and Manchester United. Plus, voicenotes are now being accepted for the ‘Great Glossary of Football Commentary’!
02:55 To sit or to stand? 04:40 ‘Intense’ week for John & Ian 08:20 Ian’s away goals rule ‘clanger’ 10:50 Iwata fires one into the glossary 11:45 TCV’s first voicenotes! 18:00 Clash of the Commentators 27:40 John surges clear in the Golden Mic contest 29:50 Champions League / Merseyside reflections 31:45 Tough times for Tottenham & Man Utd 38:55 Mousse, cheesecake & Crusty the Pie 43:10 Sending the goalkeeper the wrong way?
BBC Sounds / 5 Live Premier League commentaries this weekend: Sat 15 Feb 1500 Man City v Newcastle, Sat 15 Feb 1730 Crystal Palace v Everton, Sun 16 Feb 1400 Liverpool v Wolves, Sun 16 Feb 1630 Tottenham v Man Utd.
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0:05.3 | Initially, I would sympathise, and I would say, I feel so sorry for you. You've missed out on so much |
0:10.6 | great content. And Alice, if someone had never heard our weekly BBC Sounds Only episode |
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0:35.6 | The Commentator's View with Alistair Bruce Ball, John Murray and Ian Dennis on the Football |
0:42.2 | Daily. |
0:43.3 | Hello, I'm Ian Dennis. |
0:44.6 | This is The Commentator's View where we take you behind the microphone and tell you the |
0:49.1 | stories that you don't normally get to hear. |
0:51.2 | And as ever, correspondent John Murray and Ali Bruce Ball are with us. |
0:55.8 | And Ali, you're back for your one-week break. Yeah, bouncing back onto the pod. I really missed it |
1:00.1 | last week actually. I was listening enviously. So I have caught up with last week's episode. |
1:04.8 | I know Mark Chapman listens with the lawyers just checking that everything's okay. And that |
1:08.5 | that seemed to pass muster for me but it was funny actually |
1:11.3 | because listening to obviously jackie and chris jones i actually spent my saturday off last weekend |
1:17.2 | while you guys were working hard on the f a cup football at twickenham i had some twickets tickets |
1:22.6 | to uh to twickenham for a for an incredible incredible half in particular, really cagey first half, |
1:30.2 | but an incredible finish in that game. |
1:32.7 | And then managed to meet up with Chris Jones after the game, which was quite funny because |
1:37.4 | I sort of got my own personal tactical breakdown of what had happened in the second half |
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