The Commentators’ View: Sadiq Mourinho & Roy of the Rovers

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🗓️ 21 March 2025

⏱️ 58 minutes

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Summary

John Murray & Ian Dennis are joined by former BBC Wales football correspondent Rob Phillips. They discuss his journey following the Wales national team and seeing Gareth Bale’s rise from the youth team. Herr Chapman claims another sticky-handed victim dipping into their sweets on the radio. More football lookalikes, England v Wales in Clash of the Commentators and there’s a high bar to get into the Great Glossary of Football Commentary.

03:00 Rob Phillips’ journey following Wales 09:50 Following Gareth Bale’s rise from the start 19:50 Herr Chapman is at it again… 21:40 John’s Mike Gatting incident 24:05 More football lookalikes & soundalikes 29:10 Play-by-play commentary sharing 36:20 England v Wales in Clash of the Commentators 45:20 What will enter the Great Glossary?

BBC Sounds / 5 Live commentaries this weekend: Fri 1945 England v Albania in World Cup qualifier, Sun 1430 Man City v Chelsea in the Women’s Super League, Mon 1945 England v Latvia in World Cup qualifier.

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0:00.0	No, you keep that private.
0:04.1	Find out what made Lily Allen and Mickey to Oliver say this.
0:08.0	It's just so next level what we're talking about.
0:10.9	But you know what I mean?
0:12.4	And this.
0:13.3	I think we should put our phones down and go to the park
0:15.9	and try and remember what was good about the world
0:18.3	and let's try and get back to there.
0:20.2	Sounds good. Join them as they's try and get back to there. Sounds good.
0:21.3	Join them as they talk about pretty much everything.
0:24.8	Yes, we do go to all sorts of places, happy, sad and everything in between.
0:29.7	Miss me with Lily Allen and Makita Oliver.
0:32.8	Listen on BBC Sounds.
0:36.3	BBC Sounds, music, radio, podcasts.
0:41.0	The Commentator's View with Alistair Bruce Ball, John Murray and Ian Dennis on the Football Daily.
0:48.7	Hello, welcome to The Commentator's View, where we take you behind the microphone and lift the lid on life as
0:56.0	five live commentators. I'm John Murray. With us for this one is the BBC senior football reporter
1:03.5	Ian Dennis. Hello. Hello to you. There's no Alistair Bruce Ball this week. Is this the first one that Ali's missed?
1:12.5	No, he has missed another one.
1:13.8	This is second.
1:14.7	Yeah, so Ali is on assignment, as we say, i.e. he's on his holidays.
1:21.0	And in the absence of Ali, we have gone fully international this week during an international window. And joining us, as it says here, all the way from Cardiff, the now former BBC Wales football correspondent.
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