Sam Matterface

Always disliked Matterface as you will be aware of. He has rehearsed lines and quotes ready to use. He waffles on and on about nothing and is banal and boring. Tyldsley on ITV is the better commentator.

Guy Mowbray is good quality on the beeb whereas Johnathan Pearce is like nails down a blackboard.

At least i have the beeb for the final.

 

Every time I read his name it makes me think of the joe dolce song shuddup a your face…. What’s Sam matterface hey gotta no respect…. Etc

 

Don’t know why they had to get rid of Clive Tyldsley

 

Better with Ivy Tyldsley.

 

The famous 'Agueroooooo!' line was Guy Mowbray's, and in context (stoppage time winner to clinch the PL title) was absolutely perfect....

 

Pretty sure they all have lines rehearsed

 

He's an absolutely awful commentator but he hasn't held a gun to anyone's head and forced them to put him on TV. I blame whoever made the decision to have him head up the commentary. They've got ears and yet they still chose him.

 

Except that it was Martin Tyler

 

Nope. Guy Mowbray. Speaks about it here. It was even immortalised in a print which Guy has on the wall at home.

Manchester City's incredible Premier League title win - https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/av/football/20796290

I suspect they all did it!

 

Try googling "Aguerro shout" or "scream" or ask anyone who was watching the game at the time. See how many mention Guy Mowbray.

Unless he was on the radio, probably nobody heard him "live".

There's only one famous Sergio scream.

 

Martin Tyler was the commentator on Sky TV who were broadcasting the game live, and I always remember his scream

 

Guy Mowbray
Match of the Day commentator

I was sitting three yards away from Martin Tyler, and it was bizarre how we did virtually the same commentary. We both screamed ‘Aguerooooooooo’.It was one of those moments where the emotion just comes out.

I had done far better goal commentaries, and I will do far better ones in future, so I wish I had come up with something marvellous for posterity.

I suppose ‘Aguerooooooo’ will do, although people remember Martin’s rather than mine - or they think they do, because it was live on Sky.

 

Only one Okay. See post above. Guy commentated on it live and MOTD gets seen by numbers Sky can only dream about, but given he's not a personality, then you might be right that people might not know who's voice they'd heard.

 

What kind of figures do sky get for live games? And how does that compare to MOTD?

 

I think most people associate that commentary with Martin Tyler to be honest. And not because they don't know who's voice they heard. I've just listened to Mowbray's version and it's definitely not the "Aguerrroooo" I associate with the goal.

 

Sky peak on Sundays in that traditional () 4.30 slot, hovering around 1.2/1.3M. This will rise to around 1.7/1.8M if Man Utd are involved, and if they're playing one of the 'big' six, then it will very occasionally break 2M if there's something riding on the game. There have been some 2.2/2.3M and I've got a vague memory of a 2.8 peak - that must have been some game!

MOTD varies between 3.5 and 4.5 generally, again depending on whether Man U have played and how they've got on! It scraped past 5M once that I can recall. That's the BBC1 Saturday night figure - there's also the Sunday morning repeat which pulls in a new, younger audience, plus numbers from the iPlayer streams. Dunno the figures on that.

 

Fair enough. Guy's is the version I always associate with the goal as that's the one I heard live.

 

Never realised that the figures were so much higher for the highlights than it is for the live matches. Any idea what kind of figures the BBC would get for a live FA cup match? Not the final

 

Not sure & can't access the data any more. Depends which round I guess.....seem to think there were lots of games around the 5/6M mark if they were Sat/Sun peak slots. Occasionally more. The live PL games they had last season did okay.....varied between 2.5-3.5 if memory serves. Might be wrong on that one..