Comments on: “It’s Neil Warnock, live from Cornwall…”

By: David Pascoe

David Pascoe — Sun, 11 Oct 2009 13:48:17 +0000

Still not a patch on the days when it was Gabriel Clarke at Oakwell on a Tuesday morning at 2am.

I also love the way that whenever Manish Bhasin hands over to Jacqui Oatley or Lizzie Greenwood-Hughes, it looks like he’s having to shout through that brick wall. Someone give him a stick to bang on the wall with.

By: Matthew Rudd

Matthew Rudd — Sun, 23 Aug 2009 18:40:56 +0000

Applemask, he was in Cornwall because he has a home there. He is interviewed while sitting on his tractor approximately six times a season.

By: harry chetwynd

harry chetwynd — Sat, 22 Aug 2009 22:51:50 +0000

what a way to start the season unbeaten in the first few matchs its great to see matty on the scoresheet again 2 goals in two goals paul gallagher is a great player what a signing

By: Glenn Aylett

Glenn Aylett — Fri, 21 Aug 2009 17:42:37 +0000

At last the BBC has done the logical thing and bought the rights to all of the league highlights, not just the Premiership. This is the first time since the 80s that the BBC has the rights to the entire league, but unlike those days the lower three divisions aren’t tacked on to the end of MOTD like a minor irritant. A lower league show following MOTD, and without the adverts and the demands of the Coronation St omnibus, totally makes sense. Yes the interactive thing is a bit annoying, but hey two hours of football highlights for those of us without Sky and Carlisle on BBC One is what we’ve wanted for years.

By: MartS

MartS — Fri, 21 Aug 2009 12:33:40 +0000

I watched the second one via the red button. Nothing special. Broadcasting from a studio with the acoustics of a cave beats seeing Matt Smith or Andy Townsend leaning against a goalpost whilst a rubbish collection goes on behind them in a half lit stadium.

My biggest issue is there is no Sunday repeat on BBC One or Two at a accessable time. Sure ITV Sport pretty much made The Championship with its eyes closed it was so interchangable between one week and the next, but at least you could watch it at a reasonable time (and to be fair F1 didn’t get in the way that much as Matthew stated in the review).
Yes, the BBC have looped the entire show on the red button until midday Sunday – but that then means you have to sit through a lot of Steve Claridge saying “played well (insert team name) I thought”. Plus, you can’t e-mail or text on the repeat showing via interactive.

Maybe if the BBC cut out all the studio nonsense on the BBCi replay and just played a rolling montage of all the games from the three lower divisions it would be a better way of serving us footie fans whose beloved 11 men find themselves way out of the Sky Sports/ESPN premiership radar..!

By the way, the only reason Jackie Oatley is wearing that odd side of face mic, is that it’s highly directional and as she is sitting at the back of the control gallery, having the normal lapel mic would pick up a lot of the background chatter as well.
Mind you – given some of the banal whitterings that people were sending in last week, hearing the director at work would have been 10 times more interesting than half cut Bristol City fans taking potshots at Neil Warnock via text message.

By: Applemask

Applemask — Wed, 19 Aug 2009 20:07:05 +0000

What was Warnock doing here?

By: Steve Williams

Steve Williams — Tue, 18 Aug 2009 17:50:47 +0000

I noticed that Reading moment, not helped by the fact Reading were wearing a very unfamiliar away kit. I don’t know if the abscene of a scoreline is a deliberate thing as the second game had one, so it might just have been a late edit. I also didn’t like the caption “Controversy at Bristol” – it should either be “Controversy IN Bristol” or “Controversy at Bristol City”.

I was actually watching my recording back at the same time as Goals on Sunday was on Sky Sports, and when I stopped it to do something else during the Warnock phone-in, I ended up seeing Neil Warnock on the phone again on that.

Apart from that, and the pointless e-mails, I don’t mind the show. I think Steve Claridge is fantastic on the radio, I love hearing him with John Motson (or at least, I did a few years back before I had Sky). All you really want is the goals, which we get, and the only argument is whether it’s better to have them at 12am or 10am, and I would guess there are very similar-sized audiences around at that time. Don’t forget that The Championship on ITV didn’t show all the goals for their entire first season, they just showed a handful of the significant goals in Leagues One and Two, and they were always the first thing to be dropped whenever the show was shortened for the Grand Prix or even an old repeat, as was sometimes the case.