![]() ![]() Much clever reading of the game interspersed with a good deal of jollity.Īnd one question: why has Dan Walker given up sports broadcasting as his day job? He’s good at it.įinally, I end this piece as I began: in fantasy land. Jon Champion and Ally McCoist are my pick as the best commentary team in football. The league leaders Arsenal being nearly turned over by a battling Luton Town, Manchester United taking on Chelsea and showing there’s still life in them yet, plus shock defeats for Spurs at home to West Ham and off-colour champions Manchester City losing to Aston Villa who went above them in the table and defeat for Newcastle at the hands of Everton. How lucky Prime were in the games it covered. Now they seem to be queuing up to give you chapter and verse about tactics, the high press, playing out from the back, the merits or otherwise of goalkeepers and which manager or coach may be living on borrowed time. Once upon a time it was difficult to get a sentence from a player. Mind you, the length of time before kick-off had more to do with selling advertising space than a need to hear as many opinions being offered. For the most part, the conversations were informative and illuminating. The matches kicked off at 7.30 or 8.15 which meant there was an hour to fill at each ground before the action began. Thierry Henry, Patrice Evra and Portugal boss Roberto Martinez were shipped in to complement our home-grown football philosophers. It didn’t skimp on bringing a few foreign names to the party either. There was a presenter, commentator and two or three pundits at each match as well as the much-missed Jeff Stelling as overall Master of Ceremonies. It must have been an expensive week for Prime. In these days of non-exclusive contracts, you go where the work is. ![]() Veteran broadcasters who hadn’t been seen for ages, faces whose broadcasting had been confined to the height of privacy, presenters better known on other channels and a few moonlighters from the BBC and ITV. And so they came from the North and South to play their part in Amazon Prime Video’s big week, that company’s chance to show us what it could do with their allotted Premier League fixtures.
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