The Commentators’ View: Salah signs up & John with sirens
Football Daily
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🗓️ 11 April 2025
⏱️ 51 minutes
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Summary
Conor McNamara joins John Murray & Ian Dennis to talk commentary life as Mo Salah signs Liverpool deal. John reveals how he ended up in a French ambulance in midweek. Conor reflects on nearly getting stuck on his way to replace John in Paris. And Ian talks through his memorable line, ‘Rice Rice baby’. All that plus a tasty Clash of the Commentators and more additions to the Great Glossary of Football Commentary.
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01:45 Mo Salah signs new Liverpool deal 04:45 John talks about ending up in a French ambulance 11:30 Conor nearly gets stuck en route to PSG 14:40 Ian’s ‘Rice Rice baby’ 21:25 What goal celebrations would the guys perform? 24:40 Ian speaks out about the Crystal Palace restricted view 27:50 Ian tests Pat Nevin’s patience with ‘transition’ 31:15 Clash of the Commentators gets tasty 41:40 What will be added to the Great Glossary?
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| 0:49.3 | The Commentator's View with Alastair Bruce Ball, John Murray and Ian Dennis on the Football Daily. |
| 0:55.1 | Hello, this is The Commentators View where we take you on our journey as five live commentators. |
| 1:03.4 | And on this latest episode, episode 20, we have a correspondent, John Murray, and in from the cold, Connor McNamara. |
| 1:06.3 | Are you still in Leon? Are you still in Leon? |
| 1:28.7 | Easy for you to say, I am. I'm still in Leon. It's a beautiful morning here. Blue skies, sunshine, not flying home till later today, so going to enjoy the sights and the sounds of the city. And it's a great place. I love Leon. Where Manchester United had a tough night last night because it looked in the 88th minutes. They got that Xerxes goal to go to go to one in front. And it looked like they're going to bring a lead back to the to old traffic for the second leg but |
| 1:34.4 | Unfortunately, I don't think Andre Onanna will be feeling quite as bright and sprightly as I do this morning because |
| 1:45.8 | He had a tough night and he is in the line of fire right now. Well, there's no alley this week as he is sunning it in Augusta at a time of recording. It is 3.30 in the morning, so he's probably fast asleep, or maybe squeezing in a secret round on the golf course. Although he wouldn't |
| 1:50.6 | be involved this week anyway, because he'd be serving a one-match suspension for his |
| 1:54.7 | mishandling of Clash of the Commentators last week. So he wouldn't be involved this week anyway. |
| 2:00.3 | Well, we'll get to that. |
| 2:02.3 | I'm glad to see that it's not niggling you at all. We'll get to that. And we're also going to get |
| 2:07.6 | to the fact that we've got John and Connor on because this week has been pretty hectic for a number |
| 2:14.0 | of reasons. We've had some week, haven't we, the three of us? As I say, we're going to get to that in due course. But firstly, John, as correspondent, |
| 2:21.6 | we've got the news that Mo Sala has signed a new two-year deal with Liverpool. There's been |
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