Entertaining to hear the BBC Radio Five commentary team (Saggers?) moaning about their seats at Villareal’s El Madrigal stadium. I imagine they’d complain even more bitterly if they’d had to pay for their tickets, to boot - not to mention, having to sit through the sort of thing I usually endure on my rare visits to Griffin Park, rather than the crème dela crema of European football.
Mind you, talking of the M4 corridor, I expect some of us should feel a twinge of pride to read that Brentford’s Slough-born striker, Lloyd Owusu, is about to pack his bags for the World Cup. He’s tipped for the Ghana squad!
Radio football commentary’s a very interesting form of communication - far more phatic, deictic even, than informative. I can’t picture it, to be honest, it’s just an excited, exciting babble. And, of course, you have to know the teams. Once upon a time you might have expected to get a little help from the players’ names alone, which might be playing for Arsenal and which for the Spanish side.
