Huggie
11:46 Mon Jul 13
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I prefer radio and usually listen to radio commentary and watch the TV with sound down. Radio tends to be less biased towards big teams and has less of an agenda. Also, they don't try to say all games are exciting and call it a stinker if it is and find other ways to entertain the listener.
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zebthecat
12:15 Mon Jul 13
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Takashi Miike 10:41 Mon Jul 13
He was also hilariously one-eyed towards whichever was the London based team when they were against a non-London team.
Test Match Special is my aural wallpaper of the Summer and has been since I was kid. The best radio sports commentary bar none even after all those years.
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Crassus
12:18 Mon Jul 13
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'aural wallpaper of the Summer'
Beautifully put squire
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Coffee
12:20 Mon Jul 13
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Crassus 12:18 Mon Jul 13
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Bungo
12:22 Mon Jul 13
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Totally agree. In fact I think there are few better things in life generally than radio commentary on a Test match, particularly when there's not much happening in the game.
In contrast, I watched/listened to the F1 Grand Prix yesterday on the box. The commentator sounded as if he was having a seizure he had hyped himself up so much and was yelling so much.
Need a new Murray Walker. At least he was excitable with unique character.
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Tomshardware
12:33 Mon Jul 13
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Must have listened to hundreds of our games on the wireless over the years.
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zebthecat
12:40 Mon Jul 13
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Bungo 12:22 Mon Jul 13
I listened the race online yesterday (usually of FiveLive Sports Extra) and mob on there are quite good and do not hype the sport at all.
If it is a dull race they will call it and have a good moan as well.
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Bungo
12:50 Mon Jul 13
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zebthecat 12:40 Mon Jul 13
Good to know. Cheers!
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Pedro
2:05 Mon Jul 13
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Used the love listening to Capital Gold football back in the day. Many a midweek night spent listening to our games . Jonathon Pearce was amazing before he went to the BBC and had to calm his style.
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twoleftfeet
9:55 Mon Jul 13
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The 80s and early 90s were great times to listen to football on the radio but now it’s full of squawking female commentators and shit ex professionals.
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Stowie.40
10:26 Mon Jul 13
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Can’t listen to football on the radio but not sure if mentioned but when boxing is on and BBC have the radio rights I do listen to Mike Costello while watching the fight on the box. Best sports commentator around for me.
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tiddingtoniron
10:36 Mon Jul 13
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Stowie- couldn`t agree more about Costello-he is exceptional.
Who else was listening to the 75 Cup winners cup games on the radio? only went live for the 2nd half.
Peter Jones and Bryon Butler- one taking over from the other halfway through.
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twoleftfeet
11:32 Mon Jul 13
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Everton cup semi replay in 1980
That was brilliant.
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Any Old Iron
11:58 Mon Jul 13
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Before all this wall to wall TV football coverage and free streams radio was the only way to follow games unless you were at one. And then it would only be us being covered once in a blue moon.
But I still listen on the radio to games if I'm driving, but unfortunately Talksport are now hoovering up more and more games and their coverage is absolutely ruined by the non-stop in-play gambling promotions/adverts. They seem to spend more time shouting the odds than commentating. The station must be run by a bunch of ammoral cunts.
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zebthecat
12:09 Tue Jul 14
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Stowie.40 10:26 Mon Jul 13
Agree completely.
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twoleftfeet
12:19 Tue Jul 14
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Talksport commentaries are ruined by Sam Matterface.
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Chigwell
10:33 Tue Jul 14
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I can't listen to radio commentary without making astute observations, such as "No, he did NOT haul that player to the ground to concede the penalty. The striker deliberate brushed into him, then threw himself headlong into the penalty area, when he could have stayed upright and taken a shot". Mostly I'm proven right when I eventually see the match highlights.
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Sniper
11:22 Tue Jul 14
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Agreed about Pearce
I used to watch england games with The sound off and capital gold commentary in instead when he was there. Really superb radio commentator. I still think he’s better than most on tv but not quite the same
The thing with cricket as well is that they always seem to get really good guest pundits and commentators from the visiting teams during the tests, and there’s a genuine disappointment when they finish their last game and aren’t goi bff to be there any more. Regardless of views on here about female commentators and pundits, even the Indian lady they get on TMS is insightful enough for people on here to it whinge about her!
Who was the female commentator who swore on MOTD when she was given her big chance, summarising the first round of fa cup games? Was that Oakley?
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geoffpikey
12:06 Tue Jul 14
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Pearce is one of the few I remember fondly, or at all. I don't really listen to radio commentary anymore as, if I have the leisure time to "experience" a WHU match in real time from afar, I'll find a video stream. If the commentary is in French or Arabic, so be it. It doesn't overly bother me.
Indeed, can't particularly NAME any prominent radio or TV commentators of now.... probably the only one I could even be sure of is Jacqui Oatley as she is moaned about so often on here!!
Are Elton Welsby or Martin Tyler still alive?
In short, it's something of the past to me. Probably "much better years ago". Like music. Beer. The weather. And casual racism. swt
* Likewise, punditry and journalism. The proliferation of media means the bar is much lower for entry, really. Some of the "experts" paraded on TV and in print know no more than an average WHOer. Roy Keane is occasionally good value just for being a bastard. And I have heard Gary Neville talk sense. As a "chair" / presenter, Gaby Logan is all right. That's the fluff part, though.
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New Jersey
12:30 Tue Jul 14
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I think Sir Alistair Cook has been a very good addition to the TMS team.
As for us, I quite like Paul Parker summarising, not the most articulate but will say it as it is, not like the TV commentators who are quite bland, Pearce being the exception. I have a soft spot for him anyway because of the way he reminisced (and cried) in a Sir Bobby documentary!
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Johnson
2:04 Tue Jul 14
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twoleftfeet 12:19 Tue Jul 14
Matterface has replaced Clive Tyledsley as ITV's main commentator and will do all the England games.
Tyledsley is LIVID and has done what any self-respecting attention whore would do these days and done a statement on TWITTER whilst claiming to not be making a statement.
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