The Commentators’ View: Ticket prices & ‘needing snookers’
Football Daily
BBC
4.3 • 4.6K Ratings
🗓️ 10 April 2026
⏱️ 56 minutes
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Summary
Ian Dennis, Conor McNamara & Mike Minay talk Premier League, their travels and the language of football commentary. BBC racing commentator John Hunt joins the pod ahead of the Grand National. And Clash of the Commentators returns, along with more unintended pub names from sport commentary and suggestions for the Great Glossary of Football Commentary. Messages, questions and voicenotes welcome on WhatsApp to 08000 289 369 & emails to TCV@bbc.co.uk
01:15 What is ‘off-tube’ reporting? 09:40 Liverpool fans to protest about ticket prices, 18:30 Other 5 Live commentaries this weekend, 21:25 Conor’s Thursday match up in the air… 22:30 Grand National chat with John Hunt, 39:10 Unintended pub names, 42:00 Clash of the Commentators, 47:15 Great Glossary of Football Commentary.
5 Live / BBC Sounds commentaries: Sat 1500 Brentford v Everton, Sat 1500 Burnley v Brighton & Hove on Sports Extra 2, Sat 1730 Liverpool v Fulham, Sun 1400 Sunderland v Spurs, Sun 1400 Forest v Aston Villa on Sports Extra, Sun 1400 Palace v Newcastle on Sports Extra 2, Sun 1630 Chelsea v Man City.
Great Glossary of Football Commentary: DIVISION ONE Agricultural challenge, Back of the net, Back to square one, Backside and elbows, Booked, Bosman, Bullet header, Channel of joy, Coupon buster, Cruyff Turn, Cultured/educated left foot, Dead-ball specialist, Draught excluder, Elastico/flip-flap, False nine, Fox in the box, Giving the goalkeeper the eyes, Grub hunter, Head tennis, Hibs it, In a good moment, In behind, Magic of the FA Cup, The Maradona, Off their line, Olimpico, Onion bag, Panenka, Park the bus, Perfect hat-trick, Put his cap on it, Rabona, Roy of the Rovers stuff, Schmeichel-style, Scorpion kick, Spursy, Stick it in the mixer, Sweeper keeper, Target man, Tiki-taka, Towering header, Trivela, Where the kookaburra sleeps, Where the owl sleeps, Where the spiders sleep.
DIVISION TWO 2-0 can be a dangerous score, Asterisk, Back on the grass, Ball stays hit, Beaten all ends up, Blaze over the bar, Business end, Came down with snow on it, Catching practice, Camped in the opposition half, Cauldron atmosphere Coat is on a shoogly peg, Come back to haunt them, Corridor of uncertainty, Couldn’t sort their feet out, Easy tap-in, Daisy-cutter, Drubbing, First cab off the rank, Giant-killing, Goalkeepers’ Union, Good leave, Good touch for a big man, Half-turn, Has that in his locker, High wide and not very handsome, Hospital pass, Howler, In the dugout, In the hat, In their pocket, Johnny on the spot, Lackadaisical, Leading the line, Leather a shot, Middle of the park, Needed no second invitation, Nice headache to have, No-look pass, Nutmeg, On the beach, On their bike, One for the cameras, One for the purists, Piledriver, Played us off the park, Points to the spot, Prawn sandwich brigade, Purple patch, Put their laces through it, Queensbury rules, Reaches for their pocket, Rolls Royce, Root and branch review, Row Z, Screamer, Seats on the plane, Sent into raptures, Show across the bows, Slide-rule pass, Staving off relegation, Steal a march, Sting the palms, Straight in the bread basket, Stramash, Taking one for the team, Telegraphed that pass, Tired legs, That’s great… (football), Thunderous strike, Turns on a sixpence, Walk it in, We’ve got a cup tie on our hands.
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| 0:00.0 | BBC Sounds, Music, Radio, podcasts. |
| 0:07.2 | Welcome to the Wayne Rooney show. |
| 0:09.3 | Wayne Rooney, Kay Curd and me, Kelly Somers, |
| 0:11.8 | break down the biggest stories in the Premier League and beyond. |
| 0:14.9 | He's gone in quite quick, but he hasn't caught him high. |
| 0:18.1 | I just don't think it's the red card. |
| 0:19.6 | Plus, we'll hear the funniest and most outrageous stories from Wayne's career. |
| 0:23.8 | I was going into positions and doing things I shouldn't have really been doing, |
| 0:26.9 | but you do it because you feel like you have to, |
| 0:28.9 | and I helped us drive on and win the FA Club. |
| 0:31.1 | The Wayne Rooney show. |
| 0:32.3 | Watch a night player, listen on Towns. |
| 0:35.9 | The Commentator's View on the Football Daily with Alistair Bruce Ball, John Murray and Ian Dennis. |
| 0:43.6 | Hello, it's the Football Daily. |
| 0:45.6 | I'm Ian Dennis, and this is the commentators view where we five live commentators discuss the football, |
| 0:50.6 | the language of football commentary and our travels around the world, talking of which, |
| 0:55.6 | Ali Bruce Ball is at the Masters doing the golf. |
| 0:59.3 | He's walking the course, whilst John Murray is away, |
| 1:02.6 | slightly less glamorous on a BBC course. |
| 1:06.9 | And I'm sure he'll explain more when he's next back with us, |
| 1:10.5 | but fear not, because Connor McNamara is here. |
| 1:13.9 | Hello, Connor. |
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