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Football Daily

The Commentators' View LIVE Show

Football Daily

BBC

Soccer, Sports, News, Sports News, Sport

4.34.5K Ratings

🗓️ 5 August 2025

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Summary

John Murray & Ian Dennis talk football, travel & language with a live studio audience in Sheffield. Also hear from Pat Nevin and Ali Bruce-Ball. WhatsApp voicenotes to 08000 289 369. Emails to [email protected]

05:00 John’s end-of-season bonus, 13:40 Ian shows off his big red book, 17:10 Pat Nevin on working with John & Ian, 19:50 Pat and Ian pranking each other, 23:45 Great Glossary of Football Commentary, 34:50 Clash of the Commentators, 41:25 Answering audience questions. BBC Sounds / 5 Live commentaries: Sun 10 Aug 1500 Crystal Palace v Liverpool in the Community Shield.

Glossary so far: 2-0 is a dangerous score, After you Claude, All-Premier League affair, Aplomb, Brace, Brandished, Breaking the deadlock, Bundled over the line, Champions elect / champions apparent, Clinical finish, Commentator’s curse, Coupon buster, Cultured/Educated left foot, Denied by the woodwork, Draught excluder, Elimination line, Fellow countryman, Foot race, Formerly of this parish, Fox in the box, Free hit, Goalkeepers’ Union, Goalmouth scramble, Good touch for a big man, Honeymoon Period, In and around, In the shop window, Keeping ball under their spell, Languishing, Loitering with intent, Marching orders, Nestle in the bottom corner, Numbered derbies, Nutmeg, Opposite number, Park the bus, PK for penalty-kick, Postage stamp, Put their laces through it, Rasping shot, Red wine not white wine, Relegation six-pointer, Rooted at the bottom, Roy of the Rovers stuff, Sending the goalkeeper the wrong way, Sleeping giants, Slide rule pass, Small matter of, Spiders web, Stayed hit, Steepling, Stinging the palms, Stonewall penalty, Straight off the training ground, Stramash, Team that likes to play football, Throw their cap on it, Thruppenny bit head / 50p head, Put it in the mixer, Route one Towering header, Two good feet Turning into a basketball match, Turning into a cricket score, Walking a disciplinary tightrope, Wand of a left foot, We’ve got a cup tie on our hands, Where the owl sleeps, Winger in their pocket, Wrap foot around it, Your De Bruynes, your Gundogans etc.

Transcript

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0:00.0

BBC sounds, music, radio, podcasts.

0:05.5

The commentator's view with Alistair Bruce Bull, John Murray and Ian Dennis on the Football Daily.

0:13.3

We talk a lot about the age of people, so just to check and see how old you are.

0:18.7

Nice to see you. To see you. Nice. I thought so. And by the way,

0:27.2

just to get it right, I'm John Murray. And I'm Ian Dennis. Yes. I'm the one who's got a face for radio.

0:33.7

Because we quite often get confused, don't we? Yeah, we do.

0:43.3

Although I was walking up the, arrived in the city earlier on, and I can see Rory here on the second row.

0:45.1

And Rory said, are you Ian?

0:46.1

I said, yeah, he said, nice to meet you.

0:48.3

And I thought, that's at least one person who's going to turn up this afternoon.

0:51.7

Because it is quite unusual, to have an audience because obviously when

0:56.2

you do a radio commentary, you don't see anybody. You're talking to thousands, if not millions,

1:01.3

when the World Service joiners. And I host a couple of dinners, football dinners in the northeast

1:05.6

and in Manchester. And you host in front of about 400 people.

1:11.6

And it's quite daunting to have that interaction.

1:13.6

But you can tell us a party,

1:15.6

and can't you on air?

1:16.6

Because you're the one who says added on time,

1:21.6

whereas I say added time.

1:23.6

Do I say added on time?

1:25.6

Yes, you do.

1:26.6

Do I? You always notice that. Listen

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