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RE: Barry Davies to return to football commentary!
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RE: Barry Davies to return to football commentary!
(15-09-2015 14:21 )biggles Wrote: I like Barry Davies - he's always been a good and fair commentator however having heard him commentate on Channel 4's The Jump programme it seemed like age is catching up on his voice and was rather strained. I hope he can manage a full match commentary.
Not only that he has also cover both the Summer & Winter Olympic opening/Closing ceremonies as well over the last few years years, as well as the skating....surprised he wasn't be part of the BBC's Davis Cup commentary team, if we reach the final, would they consider him for it?
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RE: Barry Davies to return to football commentary!
(15-09-2015 14:21 )biggles Wrote: ....surprised he wasn't be part of the BBC's Davis Cup commentary team, if we reach the final, would they consider him for it?
10-15 years ago without a doubt as he was doing the major finals in those days (as late as 2012 he did the Men's Singles Final at Wimbledon for the opt-out "3-D" coverage) but now he has been relegated to the outer courts and IIRC only got one match on Court One at this year's tournament.
As for yesterday, it wasn't brilliant but it was ok. The voice is getting frail and despite being in his 53rd year at the microphone he sounded a bit nervous at first. He also had problems with player recognition but considering how long he's been out of the loop that's probably to be expected and at times clearly had to remind himself that he was doing a radio, not TV commentary.
It wasn't helped that Barry has always been a "the better the match, the better the commentary" type and it wasn't a particularly inspiring game, but during the few moments of excitement that there were the old Barry shone through and his analysis and reading of the game were as sharp as ever.
I've got to say well done to co-commentator Perry Groves who carried a lot of the workload and showed what a good co-comm he can be when he puts his mind to it. I've listened to Absolute in the past and listening to Champion and Groves' puerile attempts at being a comedy double act has always infuriated me, but Groves was on his best behaviour and (like most of the Absolute team) clearly in awe at being in the presence of greatness.
Next week Barry's doing Liverpool - Villa so let's hope it's a six-all draw!
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