Just watching the world feed of Liverpool V Tottenham. So far, I have had adverts, then going back to the PL table and Steve Bower talking and also going back to the last 30 seconds or so of the Brighton game.
Interrupting the Liverpool game 8-10 minutes in, it happened.
Luton vs Everton - Introduced by Kelly Cates with Gary Neville, commentary by Seb Hutchinson and Jamie Carragher
Barnsley vs Bolton - Introduced by Michelle Owen with Curtis Davies and John Mousinho, commentary by Gary Taphouse and Andy Hinchcliffe
Arsenal vs Bournemouth - Introduced by Lynsey Hipgrave with Joe Cole and Martin Keown, commentary by Darren Fletcher and Lucy Ward
The Football League on Sky Sports - Introduced by David Prutton with Luke Chambers, Troy Deeney and Jobi McAnuff, Ipswich vs Huddersfield commentary by Daniel Mann and Don Goodman, Leeds vs Southampton commentary by Gary Weaver and Andy Hinchcliffe, Birmingham vs Norwich commentary by Seb Hutchinson and Clinton Morrison
Brackley vs Boston - Introduced by Matt Smith with Scott Doe and Chris Hargreaves, commentary by Dan Mason and Aaron McLean
Man City vs Wolves - Introduced by Kelly Cates with Jamie Redknapp and Micah Richards, commentary by Rob Hawthorne and Jamie Carragher
Oxford vs Peterborough - Introduced by Michelle Owen with Curtis Davies and John Mousinho, commentary by Gary Taphouse and Lee Hendrie
Super Sunday - Introduced by Dave Jones with Roy Keane, Jamie Redknapp and Daniel Sturridge, Brighton vs Villa commentary by Gary Weaver and Alan Smith, Liverpool vs Spurs commentary by Peter Drury and Gary Neville
Bromley vs Solihull - Introduced by Matt Smith with Will Grigg and Aaron McLean, commentary by Adam Summerton and Adam Virgo
The Drury line of “Frame it and stick it on the mantelpiece of his life” will take some beating in terms of the oddest turn of phrases to describe a goal.
Hugh Woozencroft presented from the King Power Stadium
Ipswich Town v Huddersfield Town - Phil Blacker, with Jonathan Oakes conducting interviews Birmingham City v Norwich City - Paul Walker Leicester City v Blackburn Rovers - Tom Skippings, with Hugh Woozencroft conducting interviews Sunderland v Sheffield Wednesday - Adam Inker Plymouth Argyle v Hull City - Jack Woodward Leeds United v Southampton - Kevin Keatings, with Juliette Ferrington conducting interviews
Championship round-ups - Jack Woodward, Jonathan Legard and Tom Skippings
The English Football League Highlights programme for the final day of the Championship's regular season was an hour long (so 46 minutes after commercials) rather than the usual 90 minutes we get when all three EFL divisions are in action. Interesting to see Hugh Woozencroft hosting from Leicester rather than Ipswich given that Portman Road was where the day's big story was, but I guess this was a safety-first decision just in case Town didn't clinch promotion on the day.
Given that Ipswich Town sewed up promotion pretty comfortably with a win, the first part of the programme was devoted to their game against Huddersfield Town. The edit of this match wasn't intercut with the Leeds United v Southampton highlights, with that game proving inconsequential to Ipswich's circumstances as things played out.
We saw an intercut of the matches involving Birmingham City, Blackburn Rovers, Sheffield Wednesday and Plymouth Argyle during the second part of the show, with this charting the battle to avoid relegation and using the same on-screen captions of the BST chronological timings that we had on last weekend's programme. A small point of note here is that, as evidenced by the mic-sock, ITV had its own reporter (presumably international feed commentator Paul Walker) conducting the post-match interviews from Birmingham rather than taking the Sky Sports interviews (done by David Craig) as typically would be the case.
Woozencroft handled the post-match chats at Leicester, with shots of the Foxes' Championship trophy lift and interviews with some of the club's players beginning the third part of the programme before we saw a commentary edit of Leeds United v Southampton. An eight-minute round-up of the six other final-day fixtures, starting with the only other consequential game in West Bromwich Albion v Preston North End, made up the bulk of the final part of the show.
Disappointingly, this programme didn't include any footage from the League One Play-Off Semi-Final First Leg ties. I'm guessing the reason for this was due to the show getting its initial airing between 9-10pm on ITV4, with Saturday's Oxford United v Peterborough United game ending at around 9.35pm, so it would have been tight to edit the action from Oxford into the final part. There was time for Hugh to introduce a montage of clips from a number of this season's community features following the final Championship table during the show's last five minutes, before it was rounded off with the usual end-of-regular-season closing montage.
We got confirmation of ITV's plans for its play-off highlights. Pleasingly, there'll be a programme looking back on the League One and League Two Play-Off Semi-Final Second Legs this Friday, but there won't be one covering Sunday's Championship Play-Off Semi-Final First Leg matches. There'll be a show covering the Championship Second Legs on Friday 17th May, and then the usual individual programmes for each of the EFL Play-Off Finals.
Hugh Woozencroft presented from the King Power Stadium
Ipswich Town v Huddersfield Town - Phil Blacker, with Jonathan Oakes conducting interviews Birmingham City v Norwich City - Paul Walker Leicester City v Blackburn Rovers - Tom Skippings, with Hugh Woozencroft conducting interviews Sunderland v Sheffield Wednesday - Adam Inker Plymouth Argyle v Hull City - Jack Woodward Leeds United v Southampton - Kevin Keatings, with Juliette Ferrington conducting interviews
Championship round-ups - Jack Woodward, Jonathan Legard and Tom Skippings
The English Football League Highlights programme for the final day of the Championship's regular season was an hour long (so 46 minutes after commercials) rather than the usual 90 minutes we get when all three EFL divisions are in action. Interesting to see Hugh Woozencroft hosting from Leicester rather than Ipswich given that Portman Road was where the day's big story was, but I guess this was a safety-first decision just in case Town didn't clinch promotion on the day.
Given that Ipswich Town sewed up promotion pretty comfortably with a win, the first part of the programme was devoted to their game against Huddersfield Town. The edit of this match wasn't intercut with the Leeds United v Southampton highlights, with that game proving inconsequential to Ipswich's circumstances as things played out.
We saw an intercut of the matches involving Birmingham City, Blackburn Rovers, Sheffield Wednesday and Plymouth Argyle during the second part of the show, with this charting the battle to avoid relegation and using the same on-screen captions of the BST chronological timings that we had on last weekend's programme. A small point of note here is that, as evidenced by the mic-sock, ITV had its own reporter (presumably international feed commentator Paul Walker) conducting the post-match interviews from Birmingham rather than taking the Sky Sports interviews (done by David Craig) as typically would be the case.
Woozencroft handled the post-match chats at Leicester, with shots of the Foxes' Championship trophy lift and interviews with some of the club's players beginning the third part of the programme before we saw a commentary edit of Leeds United v Southampton. An eight-minute round-up of the six other final-day fixtures, starting with the only other consequential game in West Bromwich Albion v Preston North End, made up the bulk of the final part of the show.
Disappointingly, this programme didn't include any footage from the League One Play-Off Semi-Final First Leg ties. I'm guessing the reason for this was due to the show getting its initial airing between 9-10pm on ITV4, with Saturday's Oxford United v Peterborough United game ending at around 9.35pm, so it would have been tight to edit the action from Oxford into the final part. There was time for Hugh to introduce a montage of clips from a number of this season's community features following the final Championship table during the show's last five minutes, before it was rounded off with the usual end-of-regular-season closing montage.
We got confirmation of ITV's plans for its play-off highlights. Pleasingly, there'll be a programme looking back on the League One and League Two Play-Off Semi-Final Second Legs this Friday, but there won't be one covering Sunday's Championship Play-Off Semi-Final First Leg matches. There'll be a show covering the Championship Second Legs on Friday 17th May, and then the usual individual programmes for each of the EFL Play-Off Finals.
I thought the relegation intercuts were well done, but thought the commentary on the Ipswich game wasn't great and too obviously off tube.
PREMIER LEAGUE: (all 5/5) Brighton and Hove Albion vs. Aston Villa - Steve Wilson and David Prutton Chelsea vs. West Ham United - Gary Taphouse and Glenn Murray Liverpool vs. Tottenham Hotspur - Conor McNamara and Jim Beglin
LA LIGA: (all 5/5) Osasuna vs. Real Betis - Lucas Brown and Toni Padilla Celta de Vigo vs. Villarreal / Rayo Vallecano vs. Almería - Duncan Bishop Valencia vs. Alavés - Spencer Siegel Sevilla vs. Granada - Glenn Taylor and Marcelino Elena
BUNDESLIGA: (all 5/5) Union Berlin vs. Bochum - Chris Sharples and Thomas Broich Eintracht Frankfurt vs. Bayer Leverkusen - Derek Rae and Patrick Owomoyela Heidenheim vs. Mainz 05 - Phil Bonney and Kevin McKenna
SERIE A: (all 5/5) Cagliari vs. Lecce - Owen Neilson Empoli vs. Frosinone - Thomas Lawrence and Lorenzo Amoruso Hellas Verona vs. Fiorentina - Marco Palmieri AC Milan vs. Genoa - Patrick Kendrick Roma vs. Juventus - Simon Harding and Manuel Pascali
EREDIVISIE: (all 5/5) PSV Eindhoven vs. Sparta Rotterdam - Richard Connelly Volendam vs. Ajax - Jonathan Beck AZ Alkmaar vs. Twente - Phil Blacker Feyenoord vs. PEC Zwolle - Richard Kaufman
PRIMEIRA LIGA: Famalicão vs. Benfica (5/5) - Con Murphy
BELGIAN PRO LEAGUE [CHAMPIONSHIP ROUND]: (all 5/5) Royal Antwerp vs. Club Brugge / Royale Union Saint-Gilloise vs. Anderlecht - Will Downing
SÜPER LIG: Galatasaray vs. Sivasspor (5/5) - İsmail Şenol
ARGENTINA COPA DE LA LIGA PROFESIONAL [FINAL @ Santiago del Estero, Argentina]: Estudiantes de La Plata vs. Vélez Sarsfield (5/5) - Klaus German and Peter Coates
K LEAGUE 1: (all 5/5) Suwon FC vs. Gangwon / Gimcheon Sangmu vs. Incheon United - Alex Jensen
AFC CUP [FINAL @ Muscat, Oman]: Al Ahed vs. Central Coast Mariners (5/5) - Dez Corkhill
LA LIGA HYPERMOTION: (all 5/5) Eibar vs. Amorebieta - Manu Vieyra Espanyol vs. Sporting de Gijón - Carlos Ponte FC Andorra vs. Albacete - Claudia Granja Eldense vs. Leganés - David Gladwell Real Zaragoza vs. Burgos - Sam May Tenerife vs. Racing de Ferrol - Albert Escala
2. BUNDESLIGA: Wehen Wiesbaden vs. Holstein Kiel (5/5) - Mark Bevan
SERIE B: (all 5/5) Parma vs. Cremonese - Paul Visca Modena vs. Como - ??? [can’t find it] Palermo vs. Ascoli - Roberto Gotta Sampdoria vs. Reggiana - Rowan Druffin
UEFA WOMEN’S U17 EURO 2024 [@ Sweden]: (all 5/5) England vs. Norway [@ Lund] - Richard Drew Sweden vs. France [@ Malmö] - Jack Zorab
SERIE A FEMMINILE: (all 5/5) Roma vs. Inter Milan [CHAMPIONSHIP ROUND] - Con Murphy AC Milan vs. Como [RELEGATION ROUND] - Mark Rodden
NWSL: Houston Dash vs. Kansas City Current (5/5) - Anna Witte and Gary Bailey Orlando Pride vs. Racing Louisville (5/5) - Ashley Docking and Gary Bailey Bay FC vs. Chicago Red Stars (5/6) - David Gascon and Ricky Lopez-Espin
5/5/2024 MAJOR LEAGUE SOCCER COMMENTATORS ON APPLE TV--- Inter Miami vs. New York Red Bulls (5/5) - Steve Cangialosi and Danny Higginbotham Orlando City SC vs. FC Cincinnati (5/5) - Tony Husband and Ross Smith Atlanta United vs. Minnesota United (5/5) - Tyler Terens and Kyndra de St. Aubin Toronto FC vs. FC Dallas (5/5) - Joe Tolleson and Greg Sutton San Jose Earthquakes vs. LAFC (5/5) - Keith Costigan and Maurice Edu DC United vs. Philadelphia Union (5/5) - Chris Wittyngham and Shep Messing (!!!) Charlotte FC vs. Portland Timbers (5/5) - Neil Sika and Lloyd Sam Houston Dynamo vs. St. Louis City SC (5/5) - Mark Rogondino and Heath Pearce Nashville SC vs. CF Montréal (5/5) - Nate Bukaty and Devon Kerr Chicago Fire vs. New England Revolution (5/5) - Eric Krakauer and Jalil Anibaba Real Salt Lake vs. Sporting Kansas City (5/5) - Max Bretos and Brian Dunseth Vancouver Whitecaps vs. Austin FC (5/5) - Blake Price and Paul Dolan New York City FC vs. Colorado Rapids (5/5) - Callum Williams and Calen Carr Seattle Sounders vs. LA Galaxy (5/5) - Jake Zivin and Taylor Twellman (Tyler Terens and Tony Meola on FS1 [USA])
5/5/2024 WOMEN'S FOOTBALL COMMENTATORS ON OTHER PLATFORMS---
FA WOMEN'S SUPER LEAGUE: (on FA Player / Paramount+ [USA]) Manchester City vs. Arsenal - Ben Andrews Chelsea vs. Bristol City - Mark Scott
LIGA F: (on DAZN) Levante vs. Real Sociedad - Dan McCarthy Madrid CFF vs. Real Madrid - Cameron Pope
Hugh Woozencroft presented from the King Power Stadium
Ipswich Town v Huddersfield Town - Phil Blacker, with Jonathan Oakes conducting interviews Birmingham City v Norwich City - Paul Walker Leicester City v Blackburn Rovers - Tom Skippings, with Hugh Woozencroft conducting interviews Sunderland v Sheffield Wednesday - Adam Inker Plymouth Argyle v Hull City - Jack Woodward Leeds United v Southampton - Kevin Keatings, with Juliette Ferrington conducting interviews
Championship round-ups - Jack Woodward, Jonathan Legard and Tom Skippings
The English Football League Highlights programme for the final day of the Championship's regular season was an hour long (so 46 minutes after commercials) rather than the usual 90 minutes we get when all three EFL divisions are in action. Interesting to see Hugh Woozencroft hosting from Leicester rather than Ipswich given that Portman Road was where the day's big story was, but I guess this was a safety-first decision just in case Town didn't clinch promotion on the day.
Given that Ipswich Town sewed up promotion pretty comfortably with a win, the first part of the programme was devoted to their game against Huddersfield Town. The edit of this match wasn't intercut with the Leeds United v Southampton highlights, with that game proving inconsequential to Ipswich's circumstances as things played out.
We saw an intercut of the matches involving Birmingham City, Blackburn Rovers, Sheffield Wednesday and Plymouth Argyle during the second part of the show, with this charting the battle to avoid relegation and using the same on-screen captions of the BST chronological timings that we had on last weekend's programme. A small point of note here is that, as evidenced by the mic-sock, ITV had its own reporter (presumably international feed commentator Paul Walker) conducting the post-match interviews from Birmingham rather than taking the Sky Sports interviews (done by David Craig) as typically would be the case.
Woozencroft handled the post-match chats at Leicester, with shots of the Foxes' Championship trophy lift and interviews with some of the club's players beginning the third part of the programme before we saw a commentary edit of Leeds United v Southampton. An eight-minute round-up of the six other final-day fixtures, starting with the only other consequential game in West Bromwich Albion v Preston North End, made up the bulk of the final part of the show.
Disappointingly, this programme didn't include any footage from the League One Play-Off Semi-Final First Leg ties. I'm guessing the reason for this was due to the show getting its initial airing between 9-10pm on ITV4, with Saturday's Oxford United v Peterborough United game ending at around 9.35pm, so it would have been tight to edit the action from Oxford into the final part. There was time for Hugh to introduce a montage of clips from a number of this season's community features following the final Championship table during the show's last five minutes, before it was rounded off with the usual end-of-regular-season closing montage.
We got confirmation of ITV's plans for its play-off highlights. Pleasingly, there'll be a programme looking back on the League One and League Two Play-Off Semi-Final Second Legs this Friday, but there won't be one covering Sunday's Championship Play-Off Semi-Final First Leg matches. There'll be a show covering the Championship Second Legs on Friday 17th May, and then the usual individual programmes for each of the EFL Play-Off Finals.
I thought the relegation intercuts were well done, but thought the commentary on the Ipswich game wasn't great and too obviously off tube.
The worst thing is the dubbed on commentaries they get their voiceover guys (usually Skippings and Woodward) to do afterwards on matches. They always sound dreadful and just like voiceovers but done in a different tense.
The English Football League Highlights programme for the final day of the Championship's regular season was an hour long (so 46 minutes after commercials) rather than the usual 90 minutes we get when all three EFL divisions are in action. Interesting to see Hugh Woozencroft hosting from Leicester rather than Ipswich given that Portman Road was where the day's big story was, but I guess this was a safety-first decision just in case Town didn't clinch promotion on the day.
We got confirmation of ITV's plans for its play-off highlights. Pleasingly, there'll be a programme looking back on the League One and League Two Play-Off Semi-Final Second Legs this Friday, but there won't be one covering Sunday's Championship Play-Off Semi-Final First Leg matches. There'll be a show covering the Championship Second Legs on Friday 17th May, and then the usual individual programmes for each of the EFL Play-Off Finals.
I assume the reason they didn't go to Ipswich was because they would have to fight for space on the touchline with Sky who were also presenting from there, I don't think they've ever done the show from a match that was also live on Sky, apart from the finals of course. I can't imagine it was out of caution about Ipswich not doing it, it would have been a huge shock if they hadn't and would have been a story either way
As you say, there is a show on Friday but not on ITV1 as the caption said, on ITV4 at 12.15am, repeated on ITV1 at midnight on Saturday. Not sure of the value of showing highlights of matches that by that point will be up to five days old, while not showing anything from the first leg of Leeds vs Norwich who are quite big teams, but so be it.
The English Football League Highlights programme for the final day of the Championship's regular season was an hour long (so 46 minutes after commercials) rather than the usual 90 minutes we get when all three EFL divisions are in action. Interesting to see Hugh Woozencroft hosting from Leicester rather than Ipswich given that Portman Road was where the day's big story was, but I guess this was a safety-first decision just in case Town didn't clinch promotion on the day.
We got confirmation of ITV's plans for its play-off highlights. Pleasingly, there'll be a programme looking back on the League One and League Two Play-Off Semi-Final Second Legs this Friday, but there won't be one covering Sunday's Championship Play-Off Semi-Final First Leg matches. There'll be a show covering the Championship Second Legs on Friday 17th May, and then the usual individual programmes for each of the EFL Play-Off Finals.
I assume the reason they didn't go to Ipswich was because they would have to fight for space on the touchline with Sky who were also presenting from there, I don't think they've ever done the show from a match that was also live on Sky, apart from the finals of course. I can't imagine it was out of caution about Ipswich not doing it, it would have been a huge shock if they hadn't and would have been a story either way
As you say, there is a show on Friday but not on ITV1 as the caption said, on ITV4 at 12.15am, repeated on ITV1 at midnight on Saturday. Not sure of the value of showing highlights of matches that by that point will be up to five days old, while not showing anything from the first leg of Leeds vs Norwich who are quite big teams, but so be it.
The play off segment shows are one aspect where ITV is very much a poor relation to their predecessors. Quest pretty much covered all the play off games from all three divisions within a day or two of the game being played so did great justice for a very exciting part of the season for a neutral watcher.
There's little worth of showing first leg of Barnsley-Bolton when it will have been a week since the first leg would've been played so I guess it will be a 30 second reel before highlights of the second leg.
Pointless feature really. Just like the angles we saw recorded during the PL Summer Series in USA pre-season.
With this ref cam and ref announcements, they’re seemingly trying things nobody really asks for or needs, mostly for their own PR. Whilst the most obvious things - show VAR workings on big screens for parity to home viewers, or bin it off altogether - are ignored. Another step towards making officiating the star event.
Pointless feature really. Just like the angles we saw recorded during the PL Summer Series in USA pre-season.
With this ref cam and ref announcements, they’re seemingly trying things nobody really asks for or needs, mostly for their own PR. Whilst the most obvious things - show VAR workings on big screens for parity to home viewers, or bin it off altogether - are ignored. Another step towards making officiating the star event.
Pointless feature really. Just like the angles we saw recorded during the PL Summer Series in USA pre-season.
With this ref cam and ref announcements, they’re seemingly trying things nobody really asks for or needs, mostly for their own PR. Whilst the most obvious things - show VAR workings on big screens for parity to home viewers, or bin it off altogether - are ignored. Another step towards making officiating the star event.
Pointless feature really. Just like the angles we saw recorded during the PL Summer Series in USA pre-season.
With this ref cam and ref announcements, they’re seemingly trying things nobody really asks for or needs, mostly for their own PR. Whilst the most obvious things - show VAR workings on big screens for parity to home viewers, or bin it off altogether - are ignored. Another step towards making officiating the star event.
And I say will be edited so much probably mot worth it really .
Clinton Morrison on co-commentary with Hutchinson. I think he’s done co-comms on radio before but today his first time for Sky?
I remember Morrison being used by Amazon for TV co-commentary but I don't remember him being used in that role by Sky before. I don't think he's well suited to it.
On the subject of Championship co-commentators, it will be interesting who does the Championship play-off final out of Hinchcliffe and Goodman. It's normally Hinchcliffe who I certainly prefer but his stock seems to have fallen a bit this season.
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Leeds vs Arsenal in December 2021 I believe. Likely he was a replacement for Hawthorne though who missed that round and the week before.
Well we got the penalty but there was a lack of ice in the veins.
Illegal streaming!
Barnsley vs Bolton - Introduced by Michelle Owen with Curtis Davies and John Mousinho, commentary by Gary Taphouse and Andy Hinchcliffe
Arsenal vs Bournemouth - Introduced by Lynsey Hipgrave with Joe Cole and Martin Keown, commentary by Darren Fletcher and Lucy Ward
The Football League on Sky Sports - Introduced by David Prutton with Luke Chambers, Troy Deeney and Jobi McAnuff, Ipswich vs Huddersfield commentary by Daniel Mann and Don Goodman, Leeds vs Southampton commentary by Gary Weaver and Andy Hinchcliffe, Birmingham vs Norwich commentary by Seb Hutchinson and Clinton Morrison
Brackley vs Boston - Introduced by Matt Smith with Scott Doe and Chris Hargreaves, commentary by Dan Mason and Aaron McLean
Man City vs Wolves - Introduced by Kelly Cates with Jamie Redknapp and Micah Richards, commentary by Rob Hawthorne and Jamie Carragher
Oxford vs Peterborough - Introduced by Michelle Owen with Curtis Davies and John Mousinho, commentary by Gary Taphouse and Lee Hendrie
Super Sunday - Introduced by Dave Jones with Roy Keane, Jamie Redknapp and Daniel Sturridge, Brighton vs Villa commentary by Gary Weaver and Alan Smith, Liverpool vs Spurs commentary by Peter Drury and Gary Neville
Bromley vs Solihull - Introduced by Matt Smith with Will Grigg and Aaron McLean, commentary by Adam Summerton and Adam Virgo
National League Promotion Final: Bromley v Solihull Moors
Matt Smith presented from pitchside at Wembley Stadium alongside Will Grigg and Aaron McLean
Commentators: Adam Summerton and Adam Virgo
Reporters: Becky Ives (with Bromley) and Jeff Brazier (with Solihull Moors)
Terrific coverage of the the fifth tier play-off final from TNT Sports, as was always the case under its BT Sport moniker.
Liverpool - Tottenham - Guy Mowbray
Chelsea - West Ham - Martin Fisher
Brighton - Aston Villa - Simon Brotherton
Mark Chapman - Danny Murphy - Ashley Williams
English Football League Highlights
Hugh Woozencroft presented from the King Power Stadium
Ipswich Town v Huddersfield Town - Phil Blacker, with Jonathan Oakes conducting interviews
Birmingham City v Norwich City - Paul Walker
Leicester City v Blackburn Rovers - Tom Skippings, with Hugh Woozencroft conducting interviews
Sunderland v Sheffield Wednesday - Adam Inker
Plymouth Argyle v Hull City - Jack Woodward
Leeds United v Southampton - Kevin Keatings, with Juliette Ferrington conducting interviews
Championship round-ups - Jack Woodward, Jonathan Legard and Tom Skippings
The English Football League Highlights programme for the final day of the Championship's regular season was an hour long (so 46 minutes after commercials) rather than the usual 90 minutes we get when all three EFL divisions are in action. Interesting to see Hugh Woozencroft hosting from Leicester rather than Ipswich given that Portman Road was where the day's big story was, but I guess this was a safety-first decision just in case Town didn't clinch promotion on the day.
Given that Ipswich Town sewed up promotion pretty comfortably with a win, the first part of the programme was devoted to their game against Huddersfield Town. The edit of this match wasn't intercut with the Leeds United v Southampton highlights, with that game proving inconsequential to Ipswich's circumstances as things played out.
We saw an intercut of the matches involving Birmingham City, Blackburn Rovers, Sheffield Wednesday and Plymouth Argyle during the second part of the show, with this charting the battle to avoid relegation and using the same on-screen captions of the BST chronological timings that we had on last weekend's programme. A small point of note here is that, as evidenced by the mic-sock, ITV had its own reporter (presumably international feed commentator Paul Walker) conducting the post-match interviews from Birmingham rather than taking the Sky Sports interviews (done by David Craig) as typically would be the case.
Woozencroft handled the post-match chats at Leicester, with shots of the Foxes' Championship trophy lift and interviews with some of the club's players beginning the third part of the programme before we saw a commentary edit of Leeds United v Southampton. An eight-minute round-up of the six other final-day fixtures, starting with the only other consequential game in West Bromwich Albion v Preston North End, made up the bulk of the final part of the show.
Disappointingly, this programme didn't include any footage from the League One Play-Off Semi-Final First Leg ties. I'm guessing the reason for this was due to the show getting its initial airing between 9-10pm on ITV4, with Saturday's Oxford United v Peterborough United game ending at around 9.35pm, so it would have been tight to edit the action from Oxford into the final part. There was time for Hugh to introduce a montage of clips from a number of this season's community features following the final Championship table during the show's last five minutes, before it was rounded off with the usual end-of-regular-season closing montage.
We got confirmation of ITV's plans for its play-off highlights. Pleasingly, there'll be a programme looking back on the League One and League Two Play-Off Semi-Final Second Legs this Friday, but there won't be one covering Sunday's Championship Play-Off Semi-Final First Leg matches. There'll be a show covering the Championship Second Legs on Friday 17th May, and then the usual individual programmes for each of the EFL Play-Off Finals.
Near enough!
I thought the relegation intercuts were well done, but thought the commentary on the Ipswich game wasn't great and too obviously off tube.
PREMIER LEAGUE: (all 5/5)
Brighton and Hove Albion vs. Aston Villa - Steve Wilson and David Prutton
Chelsea vs. West Ham United - Gary Taphouse and Glenn Murray
Liverpool vs. Tottenham Hotspur - Conor McNamara and Jim Beglin
LA LIGA: (all 5/5)
Osasuna vs. Real Betis - Lucas Brown and Toni Padilla
Celta de Vigo vs. Villarreal / Rayo Vallecano vs. Almería - Duncan Bishop
Valencia vs. Alavés - Spencer Siegel
Sevilla vs. Granada - Glenn Taylor and Marcelino Elena
BUNDESLIGA: (all 5/5)
Union Berlin vs. Bochum - Chris Sharples and Thomas Broich
Eintracht Frankfurt vs. Bayer Leverkusen - Derek Rae and Patrick Owomoyela
Heidenheim vs. Mainz 05 - Phil Bonney and Kevin McKenna
SERIE A: (all 5/5)
Cagliari vs. Lecce - Owen Neilson
Empoli vs. Frosinone - Thomas Lawrence and Lorenzo Amoruso
Hellas Verona vs. Fiorentina - Marco Palmieri
AC Milan vs. Genoa - Patrick Kendrick
Roma vs. Juventus - Simon Harding and Manuel Pascali
EREDIVISIE: (all 5/5)
PSV Eindhoven vs. Sparta Rotterdam - Richard Connelly
Volendam vs. Ajax - Jonathan Beck
AZ Alkmaar vs. Twente - Phil Blacker
Feyenoord vs. PEC Zwolle - Richard Kaufman
PRIMEIRA LIGA:
Famalicão vs. Benfica (5/5) - Con Murphy
BELGIAN PRO LEAGUE [CHAMPIONSHIP ROUND]: (all 5/5)
Royal Antwerp vs. Club Brugge / Royale Union Saint-Gilloise vs. Anderlecht - Will Downing
SÜPER LIG:
Galatasaray vs. Sivasspor (5/5) - İsmail Şenol
ARGENTINA COPA DE LA LIGA PROFESIONAL [FINAL @ Santiago del Estero, Argentina]:
Estudiantes de La Plata vs. Vélez Sarsfield (5/5) - Klaus German and Peter Coates
K LEAGUE 1: (all 5/5)
Suwon FC vs. Gangwon / Gimcheon Sangmu vs. Incheon United - Alex Jensen
AFC CUP [FINAL @ Muscat, Oman]:
Al Ahed vs. Central Coast Mariners (5/5) - Dez Corkhill
LA LIGA HYPERMOTION: (all 5/5)
Eibar vs. Amorebieta - Manu Vieyra
Espanyol vs. Sporting de Gijón - Carlos Ponte
FC Andorra vs. Albacete - Claudia Granja
Eldense vs. Leganés - David Gladwell
Real Zaragoza vs. Burgos - Sam May
Tenerife vs. Racing de Ferrol - Albert Escala
2. BUNDESLIGA:
Wehen Wiesbaden vs. Holstein Kiel (5/5) - Mark Bevan
SERIE B: (all 5/5)
Parma vs. Cremonese - Paul Visca
Modena vs. Como - ??? [can’t find it]
Palermo vs. Ascoli - Roberto Gotta
Sampdoria vs. Reggiana - Rowan Druffin
UEFA WOMEN’S U17 EURO 2024 [@ Sweden]: (all 5/5)
England vs. Norway [@ Lund] - Richard Drew
Sweden vs. France [@ Malmö] - Jack Zorab
SERIE A FEMMINILE: (all 5/5)
Roma vs. Inter Milan [CHAMPIONSHIP ROUND] - Con Murphy
AC Milan vs. Como [RELEGATION ROUND] - Mark Rodden
NWSL:
Houston Dash vs. Kansas City Current (5/5) - Anna Witte and Gary Bailey
Orlando Pride vs. Racing Louisville (5/5) - Ashley Docking and Gary Bailey
Bay FC vs. Chicago Red Stars (5/6) - David Gascon and Ricky Lopez-Espin
5/5/2024 MAJOR LEAGUE SOCCER COMMENTATORS ON APPLE TV---
Inter Miami vs. New York Red Bulls (5/5) - Steve Cangialosi and Danny Higginbotham
Orlando City SC vs. FC Cincinnati (5/5) - Tony Husband and Ross Smith
Atlanta United vs. Minnesota United (5/5) - Tyler Terens and Kyndra de St. Aubin
Toronto FC vs. FC Dallas (5/5) - Joe Tolleson and Greg Sutton
San Jose Earthquakes vs. LAFC (5/5) - Keith Costigan and Maurice Edu
DC United vs. Philadelphia Union (5/5) - Chris Wittyngham and Shep Messing (!!!)
Charlotte FC vs. Portland Timbers (5/5) - Neil Sika and Lloyd Sam
Houston Dynamo vs. St. Louis City SC (5/5) - Mark Rogondino and Heath Pearce
Nashville SC vs. CF Montréal (5/5) - Nate Bukaty and Devon Kerr
Chicago Fire vs. New England Revolution (5/5) - Eric Krakauer and Jalil Anibaba
Real Salt Lake vs. Sporting Kansas City (5/5) - Max Bretos and Brian Dunseth
Vancouver Whitecaps vs. Austin FC (5/5) - Blake Price and Paul Dolan
New York City FC vs. Colorado Rapids (5/5) - Callum Williams and Calen Carr
Seattle Sounders vs. LA Galaxy (5/5) - Jake Zivin and Taylor Twellman (Tyler Terens and Tony Meola on FS1 [USA])
5/5/2024 WOMEN'S FOOTBALL COMMENTATORS ON OTHER PLATFORMS---
FA WOMEN'S SUPER LEAGUE: (on FA Player / Paramount+ [USA])
Manchester City vs. Arsenal - Ben Andrews
Chelsea vs. Bristol City - Mark Scott
LIGA F: (on DAZN)
Levante vs. Real Sociedad - Dan McCarthy
Madrid CFF vs. Real Madrid - Cameron Pope
The worst thing is the dubbed on commentaries they get their voiceover guys (usually Skippings and Woodward) to do afterwards on matches. They always sound dreadful and just like voiceovers but done in a different tense.
I assume the reason they didn't go to Ipswich was because they would have to fight for space on the touchline with Sky who were also presenting from there, I don't think they've ever done the show from a match that was also live on Sky, apart from the finals of course. I can't imagine it was out of caution about Ipswich not doing it, it would have been a huge shock if they hadn't and would have been a story either way
As you say, there is a show on Friday but not on ITV1 as the caption said, on ITV4 at 12.15am, repeated on ITV1 at midnight on Saturday. Not sure of the value of showing highlights of matches that by that point will be up to five days old, while not showing anything from the first leg of Leeds vs Norwich who are quite big teams, but so be it.
The play off segment shows are one aspect where ITV is very much a poor relation to their predecessors. Quest pretty much covered all the play off games from all three divisions within a day or two of the game being played so did great justice for a very exciting part of the season for a neutral watcher.
There's little worth of showing first leg of Barnsley-Bolton when it will have been a week since the first leg would've been played so I guess it will be a 30 second reel before highlights of the second leg.
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With this ref cam and ref announcements, they’re seemingly trying things nobody really asks for or needs, mostly for their own PR. Whilst the most obvious things - show VAR workings on big screens for parity to home viewers, or bin it off altogether - are ignored. Another step towards making officiating the star event.
And I say will be edited so much probably mot worth it really .
I think this could be an interesting insight - I remember Gillett did something similar for his last game in Australia which was a good watch/listen.
I remember Morrison being used by Amazon for TV co-commentary but I don't remember him being used in that role by Sky before. I don't think he's well suited to it.
On the subject of Championship co-commentators, it will be interesting who does the Championship play-off final out of Hinchcliffe and Goodman. It's normally Hinchcliffe who I certainly prefer but his stock seems to have fallen a bit this season.