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If there is one thing Em Led cannnot understand it is me spending hours on end listening to people talking about football. Which is exactly what talkSPORT radio is. This is true, I do enjoy listening to football banter but what is even more fascinating is how they manage to think of subject matter for what is pretty much 12 hours of football discussion every day. During the Premiership season it isn't too bad, but during the summer it is amazing what they come up with to discuss.
"In the next hour on Talksport we will be discussing the offside rule. Should we be going down the South American route by favouring the defensive player or stick with the FIFA method of going with the attacker? You can call us on 08704 20 20 20, text us on 81089 or e-mail through the website at talksport.net. First on the line is Steve who actually has a new view on the offside interpretation..."
I can listen to it for hours and, yes, the text number and phone numbers above were from memory. After the football phone-in's finish at around 10pm (the name 'talksport' is rather misleading - there is a bit of golf and cricket every now and again, but only for ten minutes) presenters like James Whale take calls from racists, nutters, psychics, drunks, druggies, OAPs and Daily Mail readers who then get shouted at for being stupid. It is just ace.
So although I've been listening for years I've never felt compelled to ring up, so I thought it should be something I should do.
done?
Yes! 29/06/06
I rather fell on my feet with this one. One show on Talksport that is very good is the Hawksbee and Jacobs show in the afternoon. A lot of the football shows have ex-pros who know their football stuff but the discussion can sound a bit stunted whereas these guys do sound like a genuine double act with comedy phone ins and amusing banter.
After my Middlesbrough application appearing in The Sun I received the following e-mail:
How brilliant is that? My answer was obviously "Yes please" and I went on the next day. The lads were very pleasant and I got the opportunity to talk about my Middlesbrough application along with some of the other tasks I want to do including eating a Filet O Fish, to which Paul Hawksbee helpfully offered some advice that I should probably visit McDonalds. A very good point.
It was a really good laugh and another one ticked off my list. Although I am still tempted to ring up James Whale and have a good moan about the amount of immigrants in Britain and how all Parking Inspectors are all arseholes (neither of which I actually agree with, but I think that is the only way you get on).
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