Football Daily - The Commentators' View: Paloma Blanca & The Whippet Inn

Episode Date: February 27, 2026

John Murray, Ian Dennis & Ali Bruce-Ball talk football, travel & language. There’s breaking news on how to pronounce Taty Castellanos, hear from the voice of the 'corpsing classifieds' and TCV goes musical. Plus ‘Unintended Pub Names’ maybe reaches its peak; Clash of the Commentators goes to Scandinavia and how you can use the pod to impress your mates. Messages and voicenotes on WhatsApp to 08000 289 369 & emails to [e-mail]00:30 Chocolate is good for you? 02:00 John recovered from Newcastle- Qarabağ, 03:40 5 Live commentaries this weekend, 08:50 Castellanos pronunciation news, 11:50 The voice of the corpsing classifieds! 17:10 Lawn mowers & palm trees, 21:40 TCV goes musical, 25:20 Unintended pub names, 35:30 Clash of the Commentators, 44:45 Great Glossary of Football Commentary, 49:40 A final message from Luke in Norway.5 Live / BBC Sounds commentaries: Sat 1500 Liverpool v West Ham with Ian Dennis & Stephen Warnock, Sat 1500 Newcastle v Everton on Sports Extra with Eilidh Barbour & James McFadden, Sat 1730 Leeds v Man City with John Murray & Paul Robinson, Sun 1200 Rangers v Celtic with Alasdair Lamond & Pat Nevin, Sun 1400 Man Utd v Crystal Palace with John Murray & Dion Dublin, Sun 1400 Fulham v Tottenham on Sports Extra with John Acres & Mark Schwarzer, Sun 1400 Brighton v Forest on Sports Extra 2 with Chris Wise & Luke Chambers, Sun 1630 Arsenal v Chelsea with Ali Bruce-Ball & Matt Upson.Great Glossary of Football Commentary: DIVISION ONE Agricultural challenge, Back of the net, Back to square one, Booked, Bosman, Bullet header, Coupon buster, Cruyff Turn, Cultured/educated left foot, Dead-ball specialist, Draught excluder, Elastico/flip-flap, False nine, Fox in the box, Giving the goalkeeper the eyes, Grub hunter, Head tennis, Hibs it, In a good moment, In behind, Magic of the FA Cup, The Maradona, Off their line, Olimpico, Onion bag, Panenka, Park the bus, Perfect hat-trick, Rabona, Roy of the Rovers stuff, Schmeichel-style, Scorpion kick, Spursy, Stick it in the mixer, Sweeper keeper, Target man, Tiki-taka, Towering header, Trivela, Where the kookaburra sleeps, Where the owl sleeps, Where the spiders sleep. DIVISION TWO 2-0 can be a dangerous score, Back on the grass, Ball stays hit, Beaten all ends up, Blaze over the bar, Business end, Came down with snow on it, Catching practice, Camped in the opposition half, Cauldron atmosphere Coat is on a shoogly peg, Come back to haunt them, Corridor of uncertainty, Couldn’t sort their feet out, Easy tap-in, Daisy-cutter, First cab off the rank, Giant-killing, Good leave, Good touch for a big man, Half-turn, Has that in his locker, High wide and not very handsome, Hospital pass, Howler, In the dugout, In the hat, In their pocket, Johnny on the spot, Leading the line, Leather a shot, Middle of the park, Needed no second invitation, Nice headache to have, Nutmeg, On their bike, One for the cameras, One for the purists, Played us off the park, Points to the spot, Prawn sandwich brigade, Purple patch, Put their laces through it, Reaches for their pocket, Rolls Royce, Root and branch review, Row Z, Screamer, Seats on the plane, Show across the bows, Slide-rule pass, Steal a march, Straight in the bread basket, Stramash, Taking one for the team, Telegraphed that pass, Tired legs, That’s great… (football), Thunderous strike, Turns on a sixpence, Walk it in, We’ve got a cup tie on our hands. UNSORTED After you Claude, All-Premier League affair, Aplomb, Bag/box of tricks, Brace, Brandished, Bread and butter, Breaking the deadlock, Bundled over the line, Champions elect / champions apparent, Clinical finish, Commentator’s curse, Denied by the woodwork, Draught excluder, Elimination line, Fellow countryman, Foot race, Formerly of this parish, Free hit, Goalkeepers’ Union, Goalmouth scramble, Honeymoon Period, In and around, In the shop window, Keeping ball under their spell, Keystone Cops defending, Languishing, Loitering with intent, Marching orders, Nestle in the bottom corner, Numbered derbies, Opposite number, PK for penalty-kick, Postage stamp, Rasping shot, Red wine not white wine, Relegation six-pointer, Rooted at the bottom, Route One, Sending the goalkeeper the wrong way, Shooting boots, Sleeping giants, Slide rule pass, Small matter of, Spiders web, Stayed hit, Steepling, Stinging the palms, Stonewall penalty, Straight off the training ground, Taking one for the team, Team that likes to play football, Throw their cap on it, Thruppenny bit head / 50p head, Two good feet, Turning into a basketball match, Turning into a cricket score, Usher/Shepherd the ball out of play, Walking a disciplinary tightrope, Wand of a left foot, Wrap foot around it, Your De Bruynes, your Gundogans etc.

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And all the bizarre ways people are using. the internet. Listen on BBC.com or wherever you get your podcasts. The commentators view on the Football Daily with Alistair Bruce Ball, John Murray and Ian Dennis. Hello, this is the Football Daily. I'm Ian Dennis and this is the commentators view where we five live commentators talk about football, our travels and the language of football commentary.

John Murray is with us, our correspondent, and welcome back, Ali. Thank you. Yes. Yes. especially returned from a little half-term trip to Bruges, but I did manage to squeeze in a listen to the latest episode of The Commentator's View featuring Connor McNamara and very much enjoyed his stories, reminded me of our session with the voice coach all those years ago.

And one thing that you guys didn't mention there that I remember was the tip of not eating chocolate just before the game or at half time because that can really sort of clog up your throat. and I've always followed that ever since. So if I ever get offered chocolate just before a game or at half time, I won't go for that. But she did say to eat chocolate, which is good for your throat. Really?

Yeah. You mean away from a performance as such? Yes. Or any time. Yeah, if you've got a sore throat, a chocolate bar is good for your throat. Oh, right. Okay, okay. Because the other one I remember, it reminded me of,

fast forward to 2016, where I was having a few problems with my voice. and we were just about to go to the Euros in France. And I was a little bit concerned because obviously at the major tournaments, the work schedule is hectic. You are using your voice a lot in quite a sort of intense period of time. And I remember going to the doctor to go and get that checked out.

And without going into too much detail, we had a conversation about acid reflux, which is about what you take on board and sort of certain food you should avoid. And before spending a month in France, the doctor's advice was avoid red wine and cheese. And I was like, well, that's ridiculous. I mean, I literally can't do that.

But we managed to get through it. I know somebody else who might struggle with that. Fresh from more Champions League action. Well, you were there as well in a non-working capacity. Yeah, but you were the one working. That's what I meant. You know what I meant. Come on.

Yes. It's actually quite entertaining. And also saw something that I do not remember seeing, if I have seen it before, I can't remember. When Carabag's scored their first goal, it was applauded by many of the Newcastle United fans. Did you clock that in the stadium? I did clock that, yeah.

That was quite touching, I thought. Maybe could be seen as slightly patronising, but I preferred to consider it to be quite touching from the Newcastle fans. And also the way at the end of the game, they were given an ovation too. I think for the way that they kept on plugging away, didn't they? They kept on fighting and trying to play, despite, you know, equally conceding two early goals again. You know, and historic night for Newcastle to get through to a knockout round in the round of 16 in the Champions League for the first time.

So it was so we'll see what becomes of them further down the road. Well, don't forget, TCV at BBC.co.com.uk. Your WhatsApp and voice notes to 08,08, 289-389-369. and in fact such was the success of our recent Q&A episode during the international break at the end of March we are planning another one so bear those details in mind that was a success was it do we know that well judging by the response that we had I would say it was excellent good I enjoyed it and I'm very much looking forward to another one of those five live commentaries coming up this weekend the usual goal service from three o'clock Liverpool West Ham I'm joined by Stephen Warnock. The alternative is Newcastle Everton on Sports Extra. And then John, you're

Ellen Road for Leeds against Manchester City with Paul Robinson. Yes, I've got a cross-penine double this weekend. Leeds Manchester City, tea time on Saturday, which kind of speaks for itself, doesn't it? And then over to Manchester United Crystal Palace, which is one of the two o'clock kickoffs on Sunday when Dion Dublin will be with me. And I haven't covered a match with Dionne for a little while so I'm looking forward to that. But before that at midday we've got the old firm at iBrox ranges against Celtic who are both playing catch-up behind the league leader's hearts will have an opportunity to extend that lead even further because they play on Saturday and then John mentioned the other games at two o'clock on Sunday which are

Fulham Tottenham that's on sports extra Brighton forest or Brighton-hove albion against Forest, Nottingham Forest that is, Sports Extra 2. And then you've got a London Derby, a repeat of the League Cup semi-final alley with Matt Upson, Arsenal Chelsea. Yeah, so the fourth time that these two will have gone head to head this season. If Manchester City win at Leeds, which John is doing Saturday 5.30, then the gap is back to just two points. There'll be level on games played. So I guess the question is, you know, are we going to see assertive Arsenal or anxious Arsenal? because they very easily swept Tottenham aside,

didn't they? Eber Echiezer with a couple of goals. Loves playing against Spurs. It'd be interesting to see actually whether he gets another game now because so much debate this season about his role in that team, particularly as the season has gone on

and whether he fits into the way that Mikhail Arte de wanted to play. I love watching him play. Do you know, I felt, and it'll be interesting whether you sense this this weekend, particularly if Manchester City win, but for Tottenham Arsenal, I really felt the title race ramping up last weekend

because the pressure was truly on Arsenal there and to come through in the way that they did I thought that was very impressive against admittedly disappointing Topman but it was Arsenal, wasn't it, who really took the initiative there and honestly I cannot wait to see how this unfolds over the coming weeks

and clearly the focus is on when they're going to be playing each other. Well John, exactly. The last week on two separate shows, I've heard Leon Osmond and Theo Walcott both say that they think everything, particularly for Arsenal, will revolve around how that league cup final goes. They both said they feel if Arsenal can win the league cup final against Manchester City, they will go on to win more trophies and particularly the league title this season. If they don't, then maybe it won't happen for them. So both of them, with their experience, putting so much on that game. because there was a quote from Thomas Tuchel

during one of his press conferences last year, John, if you remember, and he said winning changes your personality. And I know that Joseo Marino used to put a great stock in winning that league cup so early on in a season, almost to set your stall out for the rest of the campaign. And I believe that, I mean, if those who listened to last week's episode, I don't know, John, you wouldn't have done so. but you'd have heard that my prediction came true.

I said that Arsenal would get, there would be a positive response. I was backing Arsenal. And in fact, it doesn't come true yet. You said they were going to win the league. Well, the first part of the predictions come true that I said there would be a positive response and that they would win.

And also, if you recall, Connor McNamara last week told us Bournemouth Westham would be a draw because they always tend to draw and he was right. That is a six. Sixth successive draw between the two in the league. Any predictions from the two of you this weekend?

Well, having listened to that episode last week, and then, I mean, it wasn't much of a game, was it? Bournemouth, West Ham. There was the one Rayan run I've seen from inside his own half, which he nearly stuck in the top corner at the end of it, which would have been one of the goals of the season. But it made me think, criky, we're going to have to come up with something good this week.

I was literally just looking at the sort of Arsenal Chelsea, just basing it. I think Connor was basing it on previous head-to-head, wasn't he, historical results. So if I was to do that on Arsenal Chelsea, what I noticed this morning was, since Mikhail Arta has taken over, he has faced Chelsea 16 times. The first game came within a week of taking over at home in the league and they lost 2-1 to a couple of late goals. Since then, under Artetta, they've only lost one in 15 games. So I am backing our... Arsenal to not lose to Chelsea.

How bold is that? I always quite like the Barry Davis line when asked for a prediction about a match when he said, if I knew what was going to happen, I wouldn't bother going. On the subject of Connor, and I'm meant to mention this last week because Connor had told me this

before he came on the podcast last week. However, I've asked him to send us a voice note to explain all. And this relates to the pronunciation of West Ham's new striker. Hi John, yeah, so a recent West Ham game when I was commentating on West Ham's new number 11 for the first time, I made a point to go down to the tunnel

before the match to speak, to Tati, we'll call him for now, because I wanted confirmation on how he pronounces his name, and I'd heard a few different versions. There was Castiganos was how a lot of people were doing it. He's kind of got that double yellow, which in Argentina, sometimes a J sound, sometimes more of a Y sound in Spain. But I went up to him and I said, can I just confirm how you pronounce your name? Is it Castaganos?

And he said, no, no, no, it is Castellanos. So I was with Steve Wyatt, our colleague at the time. So we both walked away from that, very satisfied that we had the correct pronunciation. And then the following day I was at the game at Adfield. And I was having a cup of tea before with Guy Mowbray. And I said, Guy, Guy, look, just to tip you off on this, I've spoken to him. and it's not Castiganos, it's definitely Castianos, to which guy goes, oh, beep, beep,

because he pulls out his phone and he plays me a video of when Tati signed for Lazio, and he goes, Tati Castiganos. So from the horse's mouth, two different versions you can make of that what you will. Now, John, you told me in the week that you'd ask Connor this, but you'd said to me that Connor said it was Casta Lanos. Lagnos.

Lanyos. And I said it can't be Lagnos because the two Lairns pronounced. the why. Yeah, but last week we all agreed, or a couple of weeks ago, we all agreed that it would be Janios, which is what I called him,

because I'd had that advice, and now I kind of understand where that came from, if there was a video doing the rounds from his Lazio days. I mean, we've discussed this plenty on this podcast, but already this season, the Iyer Adja one at Brentford, where he seems to have changed his mind

and said it differently. and whether whether that's players just having a bit of fun because they know it messes us about. I don't know. I think that with Brentford, because they've done it before. Brentford have got previous, haven't they, the Brentford players for being slightly mischievous? Or does Tattie think that over here we couldn't handle Casta Garnos

or give them Casta Garnos? Maybe. Maybe. But why is that? I don't know. Is it definitely Tattie as well, not Tatee? Tati. What do they say about you?

Say potato. I'll say potato. Oh, should it? You say taty, I'll say Tate. Anyway. I'm actually going to stick with Castellanos because it's just easier. Okay.

Anyway, WhatsApp and voice notes to 08,000, 289-39369. And after John's L-N-E-R train dispatcher Sam sent us a voice note on the last episode, this week we have a voice, Ali might find familiar. Hi, Ali at Al. Ben from Bristol here, big fan of the pod. Well, stop it there.

Ali, do you know where this is going? And do you recognise the voice? From Bristol, I should do. So I... Oh, yes, I do. That's Ben Orr. That is Ben Orr. I do recognise the voice.

And Ben Orr is one of the two chaps who, do you remember? Was it the last pod I was on where I told you the story of the BBC Radio Bristol classified results? where our boss, Jeff 20man, decided it would be a good idea to have two different voices, reading the results, and they got the fits of the giggle. That's Ben. He was one of them.

Well, let's hear some more, because this is in the style of what I lie to you. It's time for the reveal. I am one of the two lads who Ali was describing corpcing so badly during the classified football results on Radio Bristol all those years ago. My fellow giggler, Nick and I, were actually in the same thing. studio when it happened. That was part of the problem. We'd been winding each other up for 30 minutes whilst we prepped the results alongside other duties. So by the time we were live, we were in big trouble. I actually struggled to breathe at one point, so intense was the giggling. Also, Jeff

Twentyman did have a word, and that's fair to say, but he was very good about it, actually. But then I suppose he couldn't give us a real telling off with tears of laughter, down his face. Great days. Love my time in local radio and still miss it now. Keep up the good work. I'll be listening.

Ben or Nick Bull. So Nick Bull has emailed me in the interim as well. So we obviously had a listener or it's been flagged up to him. Two top chaps I actually used to love working with at BBC Radio Bristol. And the other thing is,

Jeff 20man got in touch and has sent me the audio. Now then, Second reading of the classified football results, Ben Orbert, first of all, Nick Bull. Starting with the FA Carling Premiership, Bolton 2, Blackburn 1, Coventry 0, Arsenal, 0, Man United 3, Wimbledon 1, Middlesbrough 2, Chelsea 0, Tottenham 1, Liverpool 3. into Ensley League Division 1, Birmingham City, 3, Norwich 1, Crystal Palace 1, Charlton 1, Derby 1, Grimsby 1, Luton 1, Leuton 1, Oldham Athletic 2, Sheffield United 1,

Potsmouth, Neil, Redding, Neil, excuse me, Sunderland 2, Wools, Neil, Tramere 2, Hudders 1. Ah, well, we've had a little glass of water, I got rid of the fly in the frog or the fly, the throw, whichever it was, I'm not sure. Let's pick up again with the classified football results with Ben Orr. So that was it. So they had a couple

of goes that went back to it and couldn't get it again, but what really made me chucked, I don't know, have you ever been in a situation like that where you've been on air, you know you cannot corpse, but you just can't help it. What really made me laugh, listening back to that, was Ben's attempts to cover it with a cough, because it is just so blatantly feeble. You might as well just give up and and laugh, but trying to pretend you've got a cough is just that's what makes that funnier for me. That reminds me of the absolute classic,

which I can't go into in detail, but the great Jim Nocti when he ended up in a scenario laughing at something he shouldn't have been laughing at, did the same thing, and that actually made it funny. Exactly. That's this mock cough.

What's happening in the course of the next hour? Well, first up after the news, we're going to be talking to Jeremy Kuh. Hunt the Culture Secretary about broadband. It's 8 o'clock on Monday, the 6th of December. Yeah, exactly. Even the other week, though, in one of our episodes when Nathan, our producer, put in the Johners and Agger's classic clip

where he couldn't get his leg over, that when I was listening to that on the podcast when I was driving, even now, that reduces me to tears in my eyes. I just find that it's hilarious. even now to this very day. I love the tinkling tea cups in that. That's what really adds to it. The inner part of his side must have just removed the bail.

He just didn't quite go his leg over. Anyhow, he did very well indeed. Right, moving it on. We've got another follow-up from a previous episode here. Last week, Aston Villa fan dom told us how he used to take a wooden step into the halt end at Villa Park when he was litter. I love that story listening to that on the pod last week. Sheffield United States. Supported John has now written in.

Dom's tale of his granddad's wooden step at Villa Park reminded me of an incident when I took a lawnmower to Old Trafford. At the time, I was in the process of setting up a new home for the first time and finding that we needed to buy practical things like stepladders, an ironing board and a lawnmower. My dad came to visit and offered to take my lawnmower back with him to get its serviced ready for the move. Getting a lawnmower serviced, I mean, that doesn't happen nowadays. does it? Two weeks later, I traveled up from West Sussex to Old Trafford for the FA Cup semi-final between Sheffield United and Arsenal. We met in the car park and Dad handed over my newly serviced mower only for a policeman

to walk past and say, it's all right, lads, they've cut the grass already. Strangely enough, I referenced that match last weekend, that Sheffield United Arsenal. Is that the David Seaman safe? Is that the David Seaman save? Yeah. When Raya made that save last weekend in the North London Derby. Yeah, great email that. Thank you, John.

That's brilliant. We've also had this from Stuart in Orange, New South Wales. I've been following T-CV from the start and generally listen on my cycle around the local Australian wineries. I was interested in the recent discussion about grounds and techniques to get a better view. My first football experience was at the old Roker Park for Sunderland v. Redding in the FA Cup in 1973. Your discussion brought back vivid memories

of my dad tying a scarf around the railing so I could stand in the loop so I could see the game and the rest is history. Sunderland went on to win the FA Cup by which time we had returned to Australia and we were listening to the cut run on the BBC World Service.

We watched the final at midnight on a black and white TV with a bunch of dad's Aussie mates who were pretty clueless about what was going on. Properly takes you. I don't think I've ever seen that. Someone tying a scarf

like that to act as a step so that someone could see. The last time Leeds were in the FA Cup final was 73. Yeah. For a club of Leeds is standing. Yeah.

So yes, mentioned that. I do like a mention of the 1973 Cup final because as I've said on here before, it is the first one I remember watching. So it has a special resonance for me. And also talking of Australia, as we so often do on this podcast, and also continuing the chat of three-sided grounds like Oxford and Braga from last week,

Chris has sent us this voice note. Hi, TCV team, your fellow commentator Chris from Down Under in Newcastle, New South Wales, Australia. As always, love the show. Can I put to you the home ground of the local rivals, the Central Coast Mariners, of my site in the A League, the Newcastle Jets? Their ground at Gosford is known for a couple of things. One, the magnificent palm trees overlooking what is known as the Brisbane waters at the southern end of the ground. And two, the comical inflated source bottles that sit alongside their big screen in the palm trees at that end of the ground, thanks to one of the club's long-term sponsors.

Keep up the great work and please add my name to the petition for an inquiry into the recent commentator's view quiz outcomes. Well done, Chris. Well done. I think what Chris is referring to there. Chris is referring to the fact that the nature, the topics of Clash of the commentators, not particularly just siding with you. So in the correspondence that Chris has sent us, he has sent us a picture of that stadium as the sun is setting over the Brisbane waters.

It is absolutely stunning. You have to go and look that up on the internet. So did he say Gosford? Central Coast Mariners. We're doing a game there. And yes. Little known John Murray fact is I love Palmer. trees. Have I ever told you that?

Right. I really love palm trees. And so to come to the ground with palm trees would be a real treat for me. Are you going to Miami for the World Cup this summer, John? Potentially. There we go. They'll have a lot of palm trees there. Maybe. Maybe. I think that Chris needs to spend his time wisely by starting a petition to get the next stage of the world tour from that particular venue.

so we can overlook the Brisbane waters. Yeah. The tumbling Murray falling into the Brisbane waters. Remember John's little melodic Verhisa Jolly Good Fellow commentary from last week? Salah's able to get away from Ait Nuri, then past the ball just slightly behind Virtue. Might get it back.

Might still have it, plays it square. Gatpo. A critique! Across the face of goal and wide. And then Connor McNamara came out with this. Remember years and years ago, our colleague Tim Peach was producing breakfast and when would

when did Habibbe Bay play for Newcastle? I would say late Nauties and to the tune of the TV show Happy Days he took a bit of my commentary saying Habi Bay and it was like Monday, Tuesday Happy Bay! Wednesday Thursday, Happy Bay!

Which I think was then adopted by Newcastle fans as a song but I always remember that little clip on Five Live. Well, the aforementioned producer Tim Peach has sent as the clip he made for Five Live breakfast featuring some proper throwback names. And then Sean Wright Phillips puts Rabinio through and his challenge in the penalty area

and the referee immediately shows a red card to... Happy Monday, Happy Bay! Today, Wednesday. Happy Bay! That was super. That was from Newcastle to Manchester City 2. In October 2008,

Newcastle under interim manager Joe Kinnear and Manchester City were managed by Mark Hughes. on the musical theme and I think people are going to enjoy this West Ham fan Ross I can't say Nuno Espirito Santo without having the tune Unapaloma Blanky in my head

it's so annoying So apologies in advance To you three The listeners My mate Andy who's going to be walking his dog Listen to this My mum and dad will be having their tea On Saturday night

My wife Fleur Who has to put up my West Ham woes, and most of all to my two daughters, Eve and Lexi, he will definitely be embarrassed. Nuno Espirito Santo, managing down at West Ham. Noo Spirito Santo, relegates versus the plan. So no one can take our Jared away. I look forward to Ian singing it on Saturday at Anfield and marks in it during Sports Report when crossing through a victorious Nuno.

One can only hope. Spirito Santo. And that is Una Paloma Blanca, which means Ian, of course. Your knowledge of Spanish? Well, Una is one. Yes, yeah, good. I don't know what Paloma is. Blanker is the crucial.

That is the crucial. I'm going to say something white. Yeah. I'm going to say cloud. No. Isn't the right ballpark? Am I? Is it sky-based?

It's a white dove. A white dove, which was a hit in the early 70s from the George Baker selection. I mean, that is a real 70s classic, isn't it? Una Polomablanca, which I actually looked it up this morning and was reminded that, do you remember the Wurzels then did a cover version of that song to the same tune, which was, I am a cider drinker. Which I have a feeling is also sung by Sporting Crows. from the southwest.

Yeah. Okay. Well, if that's the case, get in touch. TCV at BBC.com. UK. Now for our latest selection of unintended pub names

from sport commentary. Last week we had the prancing pony from the Winter Olympics coverage when describing an Italian snowboarder called Ferrari. And a few listeners have pointed this out. Martin in Birmingham

and Mark in Carlisle. The prancing pony must be an intentional pub name because it's the name of the pub in the Lord of the Rings. Leeds fan Jamie adds The Prancing Pony's where the hobbits plan to meet Gandalf at the start of their adventure and end up meeting Aragorn

Based on the books, it would be a cozy low-ceilinged inn That welcomes folk from all walks of life With strong locally brewed beer That often leads to dancing on tables And complete strangers Belting out drinking songs in unison I don't know the Lord of the Rings well enough to have recognised that Well, I'm wondering, would that be the prancing pony pub

Would that be something that was in the films, but not necessarily in the J.R.R. Tolkien classic book. I'm not sure. However, it's a very good point that, isn't it? And we've got a twist here from Brad in Australia who says, good-day guys. I love the podcast and listen every Saturday morning, while doing my domestic bliss of washing, vacuuming and cleaning. The Prancing Pony is actually a local brewery of mine. here in the Adelaide Hills. I can tell you, it's a cosy venue with a fireplace, but it's also rustic with lots of natural wood and some corrugated iron sheeting.

The bar has more taps than a plumber's ute, and there's a large chalkboard on the back wall listing the various offerings and their descriptions, says Brad in Australia in the Adelaide Hills. What is a plumbers ut? It's a vehicle, isn't it? Because Joe Mangal used to have a Ute in neighbours. He'd have tools in the back of the Ute.

Utility vehicle maybe? Yeah, it could be. Yeah, that'll be it. But he's not the only one, is he, Brad, that does domestic chores during the podcast? Because John, wasn't it last week, you wandered off to go and do some ironing or something while Ian was doing Clash of the Comptators? Was that last week? I was listening to. I did a domestic chore.

Yeah. Yes. Are you polishing the bed knobs? No disrespect to Chris either, but I think we might have found a news. venue in the Adelaide Hills for a world tour. Yeah. They're clocking up. We've had a couple of fresh suggestions,

and we've saved this one for Ali's return to the pod this week, and it comes from Christian in Dubai. While Walking the Dog is listening to ABB's fantastic commentary of the Burton v West Ham F.A. Cup tie, and as part of his summary of the first half of extra time, I heard what I thought was a great pub name. This FAA Cup. tie is not over just yet.

First period of extra time. We've had the stunning strike from Cricentio Somerville. Then the ill-advised challenge from Friddy Potts has taken West Ham down to ten men. The ill-advised challenge would be the kind of pub that you swear you'll only visit at once, but find yourself in far too often at the end of the night. Tucked into a side street that seems to appear only after midnight, this dimly lit establishment has built its reputation on daring decor, reckless cocktails and a menu that reads more like a waver than a wine list.

The walls are lined with framed Hall of Fame and Wall of Regret photos, showing triumphant patrons clutching all manner of glasses, and others mid-lath, mid-tears or mid-terrible decision. An overhead hangs a neon sign that reads, Enter confidently, leave legendary. I hope you enjoy this one, and all the best for this weekend's commentary games. I love the sound of a reckless cocktail.

Also, daring decal. Yeah, that's brilliant. Brilliant. Very good, that Christian. I wonder when Pep Guardiola, when he told his Manchester City players to have a cocktail or two last weekend if they were drinking in the ill-advised challenge.

Actually, after the Arsenal match last weekend, I think it was James Olli. Our colleague James said to Mikhail Arteta. Mikhail, Pep Guardiola said last night that he's going to give the players a few days off and told them to have some cocktails. Will you do something like that? Which Mikhail Ateta said,

I don't drink cocktails. Tom from the Wirral. Hi, TCV podcast. TCV, the absolute best podcast on BBC Sounds, and I listen to a lot of them, so I would know. I was listening to Friday's episode of the pod on my way back from a weekend away in York. What a fantastic city, by the way.

I usually listen while walking my border collie dog, Barney, much like many of your listeners seem to do. One of the highlights the weekend was a visit to a fancy sort of posh pub steak speciality restaurant called the Whip It In. Whippet Spell like the dog breed. It might not technically make the unintended pub name discussion, but I thought the Whip It In surely deserves a mention here. It's actually a really nice restaurant. We had a lovely meal there. My only slight sort of disappointment slash reservation was that the walls of the restaurant were adorned with fancy modern art and chalkboards, detail and sort of pricing for steak cuts.

Chateaubriand and all of those, you know, expensive, fancy dishes, rather than murals and visual tributes to legendary Premier League and Champions League, wingers and fallbacks like Ashley Cole, Trent Alexander, Arnold, and your Baccio Sackers. Keep up the great work, guys. The whip it in. So, yeah, I mean, we talk about that all the time, don't we, with crosses? We wouldn't say the whip it in, but you do whip it in, don't you? Believe it or not, I've been in the whip it in.

That one? Yeah, that one. I would say many times I've been in the Whippet Inn in York. And believe it or not, when he's been in there as well, I've been with him a lot of those times. I believe that. We've been in the Whip It In. Zappa Costa was the Greyhound, didn't we discuss?

Was that earlier this season? Yeah. We sort of along those lines. And also there's another contender for Daring Decor there, isn't there? In the Whip It In? Other establishments are available in the beautiful city of York. as we also know very well too. I fear we may have peaked with this one from Steve the Hibby.

Hi guys, just listening to the Sri Lanka and New Zealand game on TMS, when one of the New Zealand batsmen was given out, this surely has to be the ultimate unintended pub name. Shana. Bowls in, Chapman. Go, second ball. Glorious delivery. It's his third wicket, Tickshana.

flighted, pitched on middle, hit the top of off. And there's a bowler, there is not a prettier sight. New Zealand 84 for 5 now. Chapman goes for a two-ball duck. Yeah, that's an off-spinner's dream for Dixana, as you say, right quite a arm around the wicket, angling that ball, pitching on middle stump, Chapman playing forward defensively

and that just biting off the pitch, taking the top of off. Dixana is known as a mystery bowler, bowling his ball that he flicks out various sides of the hand but this time just a regulation off spinner that he got good revs onto and finding some spin from the surface to remove the dangerous mark chapman so back-to-back wickets now fish will anchor in this over and they now feel that they're on top I wondered where that was going I knew it was going to be something chapman I was I was rather hoping it was going to be the hapless chapman Yeah.

I thought it might have been The befuddled Chapman. Yeah, or the bewildered Chapman. The bamboozled Chapman. Ah, very good. The distraught Chapman. Yeah. By the way, if Hare Chapman was playing cricket,

he isn't the type of person who play a four defensive shot. He wouldn't be around, would he? He gave the pod a mention in Five Live Sports Champions League coverage last night, but didn't it, doesn't even use its name now. He just called it that last of the summer wine thing, and he expects people to go and find it like that. But he was talking about your... love for Bodo John, or our love

actually for, well, Buddha Glimb, who, by the way, that's something we should say we've recorded this before the Champions League draw has come out. So a lot of people, by the time they listen to this, that Champions League draw will have come out. So we are unaware, John, whether there's another trip to Buddha in the offing.

And, you know, I've been Ali, you've been so all that remains from we three is the penny dropping there the thing is though John is that unlike you

I don't get to pick my games oh here we go I am told where I'm going Ross the boss we three are BBC employees and we do what we're told so if you do spot unintended pub or film names

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On to Clash of the commentators. Ollie in Nottingham has got in touch. I fear the recent VAR-related saltiness is pulling the reputation of TCV down to the level of the FPL BBC BBC FPL podcast from BBC FPL 606 sound. So that's a joke on the change of name, the FPL podcast from BBC Sport, and their regular debacles with Sutton Death.

John and Ian, don't let Ali drag you down. Yeah, I sort of know what, I sort of know what Ollie is saying there. We have had some instances recently where answer lists haven't quite been correct, but sometimes actually that, the controversy actually sometimes makes the competition. But I agree we're two different pods. We do it two different ways. Clash of the commentators is a different game. We need to be above that.

And also, John, Ollie basically is saying when he comes up with the word saltiness, that's another word now to let it go, let it ride, it's gone. It's forgotten. Move on. I don't think it has been forgotten because we are still getting correspondence on this. And also significant... Because you keep talking about it. Well, and it deserves still to be talked about. It's souring all his experience when he's listening to the TCV.

Because it could enhance his experience. Because when justice is done, let me explain to you, in Clash of the Commentators, which it is now time for, the current table is, Ian, 10 points from 13 played. then Ali and me, we are joint second with five points from 13. However, if Justice is done, that would take me to six and Ian back down to nine, and the game would be a foot. So this is how it works. Two of us take turns to answer a question and give us many correct answers as we can in 30 seconds.

And last week, Ian's five-match winning streak, came to an end at the hands of me on managerial sacks. This week it is going to be Ian against Ali. And I think this is a tremendous question. I think it's a tremendous... I'm actually quite sad that I'm not doing this one. That worries me. And so it should.

Because this will test you. Oh, no. So a low score could win this, John. I think, don't panic. One or two others. Excellent. Let's go could win this. Excellent.

You will have the opportunity to think laterally. Oh, right. Okay. Right. Who's going first then? I'll go first, please. Let's get this out of the way. Okay, so you go and do some chores, Denno.

You go do some domestic chores in. And this week, Ali, yeah. Norwegian side, Buda glint, knocked the Serie A, as I like to call them, leaders out of the Champions League. as they booked their place in the round of 16. This week's question is, I want you to name any team Buda Glimt

have beaten this season in any competition, which takes you back into the 2025 domestic season. There are 20 possible answers. Wow. Any team Buda Glimt has beaten this season in any competition, and your time starts now. Okay, so the three in the Champions League that immediately come to mind,

Manchester City, Atlatico, Madrid and Inter. We're then going to have to chuck some Molder, Valorenga, Stavanger, Viking FK, Tromso, Strom Got Set. I'm trying to think of other Norwegian teams. There must be an Oslo team. Oslo something something. I think he's done well there. Do you? I do. I think you come very well.

Okay. Well done. Well done. I enjoyed that. I enjoyed that. Good question, that, isn't it? Yeah, a great question. Very good. Okay, let's call Ian. I think you win this. I hope you're going to say. Magic if he loses back to back.

The good news is there's also a controversial answer in there, so I hope it goes your way. Hello, hello. Hello. Are you ready? Yes, I'm ready. Okay. So the question this week, Ian, Norwegian side Buda Glimt knocked out the Serie A leaders in the Champions League this week as they booked their place in the round of 16.

I want you to name any team Buda Glimt have beaten this season in any competition so we're going back into the 2025 domestic season for them as well there are 20 possible answers so it is any team Buda Glimt have beaten this season in any competition

and your time starts now. Well, I'd Letico, Madrid, Manchester City, into Milan, and then I would go Rosenberg, uh, Rosenberg,

Bran, Sondal, well, I think they're in the second division. Sondal, Eric Backe used to play for Sondal, I've got a feeling now they are in the second division in Norway. Yeah.

I could have said Troms. You could, but if you had said tromso, it wouldn't have been right. They obviously didn't beat Tromso. They drew with Tromso, in fact. They drew with Tromso, this seat. Well, there is a clear winner. Alistair Bruce Ball, seven. Oh.

Ian Dennis, five. Oh. So Ali takes it. Cool. I even think I'd got five. No, I didn't either. But you did actually get Bran. That's good.

What was the Rosenberg? You didn't say Rosenberg. Bran and Rosenborg were correct answers. Right. I mean, forgive me for being salty. But the fact that you two have covered Bodo Blitz.

Yeah, I didn't cover them much in the domestic Norwegian league last year. Last season, I did them. Last seasons. You could have had Bruna, Ham Cam, not Sam Cam, Humcam, Junckeran, Oslo, I think you'll have got that one.

K-F-U-M-Ozlo. Rosenberg. Haugersund. Bran, you said. Sander Fjord. Frederick Statt. Viking, as you mentioned. Valorenga, you said, Ali.

Strom's God said, Ali, you came up with. I was delighted with that. Former club of Martin O'Degard, Oudegard. So, Strom's God said. Christian Sund, you didn't say. Odd Grenland, neither of you said. Sarpzborg, Molder and then

neither of you said Sturm Gratz who were the other team that they beat in the league phase. I've got to say, Ali, that is a deserved win especially if you've come out

with Strom Godset. It's delighted about that. Then that is one of the answers of the series. Yeah. So fair play. And Nathan, the producer, has just put in a little bit

of additional information on Buddha and to tell us that they are the first team from outside of Europe's big five leagues to win four consecutive matches in a European Cup stroke Champions League campaign against opponents from those leagues, England, Spain, Germany, Italy and France, since Iax in 1971, 72, who won the European Cup last year. Of course, that was a, I mean, they won it three years in a row, didn't they, Iax?

Yeah, yeah. By the way, the Wednesday night of Champions League football just gone, which was an absolute thriller. I spotted as well the Atalanta comeback against Borussia Dortmund one of the stats there was first team

to overturn a two-gold deficit from the first leg of a Champions League tie since Liverpool beat Barcelona in the semi-finals the famous game

the Ariagi goal from the Trent Alexander Arnold Corner Ian's commentary with Alan Shira but that doesn't happen often that was an amazing and did you see

the way that game finished so Atalanta got a penalty there were 3-0 up at half time it went back to 3-1 on the night and it looked like it was going to extra time. And then Benza Bayini, the centre-back, accidentally scorpion kicked, the opposition centre-forward in the head trying to clear a cross

after the keeper had given the ball away. It wasn't given as a penalty initially. Blood pouring down the centre-forward's face, referee sent to the screen, gives the penalty, and then one of the best penalties you'll ever see taken in any situation just whipped into the top corner, full-time whistle, end of game. Only Italian team threw to the last 16th. It was brilliant.

It was absolutely brilliant game of football. And actually, we were looking ahead of the Newcastle match on Tuesday. There aren't too many big turnaround from first-leg deficits in the Champions League. They are quite rare that they come about. Just a couple of suggestions for the great glossary of football commentary this week. Remember, we're looking for commentary terms and phrases, which you may have heard on the radio, and you can find our entire glossary in the episode description.

So Division 1 for football exclusive terms, Division 2 for terms used in football commentary, but also used in other sports. And last week we added coupon buster into Division 1. Let's start with a message from Germany. Hello guys, 14-year-old Ella here from Berlin. What a great city, Berlin is. I love the podcast and listen on the way back from Friday basketball practice.

while listening to this week's edition of the pod, I had a revelation. My suggestion is the common term used when a player gets a yellow card as they are then often referred to as being booked. Or if John was saying it, booked. Despite the fact that you can get yellow cards in other sports, for example, rugby, I haven't heard the term booked being used. That's why I believe that being booked should be,

put into Division I. Excited to hear your thoughts on this. Well, I think that's a very good suggestion, actually. When you think about it, that is such a football term, isn't it? To be booked. Yeah, and in other sports, so rugby, Ella mentions there, but I'm thinking always go to hockey, obviously. It's quite often a yellow card and off to the sin bin.

But, you know, being booked is obviously the referee. I mean, literally is the referee taking out the notebook and writing the players named down in the book, I can't think of another sport where that happens, but again, our listeners with all the other sports around the world might be able to put us right on that. But I think that's a great suggestion. The other scenario where booked would be used

that comes into my mind is from American cop shows where they would always talk about, do you remember Hawaii 5-0? Book them, Danny. Yeah. And chips. Yeah. Book him.

Book him. Book him. Book him. although I'm not sure they'd ever in the aftermath of that say he's been booked. No, you're right, John. It was given as an order, I'm going to book you or book him. Yeah.

Not, I have now booked you. No. So I'm going to go with Ella, and I'm going to put that in Division 1. Excellent. Do you agree? Yep. Thank you, Ella. Siri A, as you would say, John, in Italian.

The other one today for the glossary, John from Hartley-Wintney in Hampshire. I'm currently sat at half time watching a frankly poor Everton against Manchester United game where England's number one Jordan Pickford is optimising the very definition of being a sweeper-keeper. It struck me that this would be a fairly obvious division one inclusion. I thought it my duty to bring this to your attention. I would imagine the term sweeper could also be used in curling,

but the sweeper keeper, I'm sure, is an exclusive football term. John is probably right there. I think John is probably right. John from Hartley Winton. knee and could also be a pub name, the sweeper keeper. You know what's funny there, Ali, is that you've just gone poor. Pure. And I've already said, booked.

Booked. Last week, and I meant to make a note of the time. But John actually went so in last weeks. Pod, in the pod? Yeah, in the pod. When we do an impression of John, so, and he did it. And I listened to it. I went back, and I'd made it.

made a note of the time and I've forgotten it. I occasionally... I occasionally do it. And sort of nearly fooled one of our producers where they spoke to me down the line and the first thing I said was, hello, like that. Which John will often say,

well, I know that doesn't sound anything like you, John. But Rob Green was sitting next to me. He looked at me and went, that is dreadful. He knew what I was trying to do. He said, that is dreadful. I do. And actually, that's another sort of that we've not mentioned on here.

I don't know whether you two get this, but I do occasionally get people impersonating me to me. Right. And sometimes there's people I don't even know, which is quite odd. And one who I think does always make me laugh is the Press Association's Simon Peach.

Oh, yeah. Who thinks he's absolutely nailed me. But it's, yeah. And what's the phrase, what's the phrase most often chosen, John? if someone's going to, because I would go with my hello because that's just the easy one. Hello is often.

Yeah, and poor, obviously. Poor. So in summary, sweeper-keeper and booked, both in Division I. Hooray! Contributions, TCV at BBC.co.com. UK for the great glossary of football commentary, but we're going to finish with this from Luke in Norway. Hello, gents.

I just want to say thanks to Alistair Bruce Ball for making me look like a genius. I recently listened to the pod on a free. Friday afternoon and found myself at the local bar 30 minutes from Oslo. Three hours later, when a pile of English dudes rolled in, brackets, very unusual for this tiny establishment surrounded by various farms, end brackets, I quickly approached them and asked where they were from. The first gent said, Lincoln. Well, I said, I know a fact about Lincoln. I proceeded to retell Ali's brilliant fact about Lincoln Cathedral.

once being the world's tallest building, as if it was my own. The Lincoln gent was aware of the fact and was astounded that I could share this fact on cue, thus making me appear far more worldly and intelligent than I actually am. Thanks, Ali. Loving the pod, as always, Luke, Luke from Norway.

That's brilliant, Luke. I'm delighted about it, and you probably have to thank the people who drew out Lincoln against Ipswich in the FA Cup a few seasons ago, and then our bosses for giving me, that game which got me into looking at Lincoln. The actual flip of that is I remember quite early on in my career at Five Live, my wife Lucy telling me who's from Salisbury where I now live

that Salisbury has the tallest, I think she claimed at the time still had the tallest cathedral spire in Europe. So I then delivered this as a fact on Five Live and when I delivered that it had been surpassed by two or three others and I ended up looking a complete fool. So it can work the other way, Lou, but I'm glad it worked the right way this time. And actually, we had a message on that subject as well, or I had a message from our BBC colleague James Porter, who said that he said it's a fair point that 200-odd years was a decent run for Lincoln Cathedral, but he said he thought we rather underplayed the pyramids period of time as the tallest building in the world, to which I said to him, well, I think the pyramids do get due credit.

for that, whereas Lincoln Cathedral doesn't necessarily. Okay, I've just gone AI here very quickly. As of late 2025, the Sagrada Familia in Barcelona features the tallest church spire in Europe, with its central tower of Jesus Christ reaching 162.91 meters. It surpassed the historic Ulm Minster in Germany, which held the record for the tallest church steeple. There we go.

I mean, that could be right or could be right. You know the pyramids, the first pyramid? You know how long it took them to build the first pyramid? probably probably I wouldn't be surprised if it was like 200 years 21 years mind you they are still building the sagrada familiar and that's been going on for longer than 21 years

Luke is going to be having all of this down in Norway just waiting to pounce on strangers in that bar who happened to walk in from Salisbury Ulm or Cairo Cairo we'll keep the unintended pub names and glossary suggestions coming into TCV at BBC.com.

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