The Commentators’ View: Media caviar & the Bayern buffet

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🗓️ 7 March 2025

⏱️ 57 minutes

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Summary

Ian Dennis is back with John Murray & Ali Bruce-Ball to tell the stories behind the 5 Live commentaries. From John’s fancy food at PSG to seeing ‘episcopal purple’ in Notre-Dame. It’s Ian vs John in a Liverpool-themed Clash of the Commentators. And what will make it into the Great Glossary of Football Commentary?

04:00 Ali gets glasses & football lookalikes 06:50 Using visual identifiers when players look similar 13:30 ‘Smash and grab’ for the Great Glossary? 18:40 Ian sees eight goals in Eindhoven 25:10 Caviar and runny cheese in Paris! 28:15 Back to the league in Clash of the Commentators 35:50 Great Glossary criteria are tightened up 40:20 Ali and John called into the Commentators’ Dock 52:30 ‘In and around’

BBC Sounds / 5 Live Premier League commentaries this weekend: Sat 8 Mar 1500 Liverpool v Southampton, Sat 8 Mar 1730 Brentford v Aston Villa, Sun 9 Mar 1400 Chelsea v Leicester, Sun 9 Mar 1630 Man Utd v Arsenal.

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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, podcasts.
0:35.1	The Commentator's View, with Alistair Bruce Ball, John Murray and Ian Dennis on the Football
0:41.9	Daily.
0:43.1	Hello, I'm Ian Dennis.
0:44.3	Welcome to The Commentator's View where we tell the stories around our five live
0:48.0	commentaries that you don't normally get to hear.
0:51.6	And before I welcome John Murray and Alistair Bruce Ball, just to say that I've been
0:55.8	loitering with intent, I've been spending time in a saloon, it wasn't a last chance saloon, and also
1:01.5	you too, good morning to you by the way, I've heard what you've been saying whilst I've been away.
1:07.0	Whilst the cat's away? Yes. Well, the cat is back. The cat is back.
1:13.6	Yes, and that's not good news because we're starting half an hour earlier than we have done for the last couple.
1:20.6	I've been doing the Chelsea Leicester notes since about quarter past seven this morning.
1:25.1	Actually, I thought, let's get up, let's get on with it.
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