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Just having a shufty through the match thread and noticed how many listened to radio commentary with mixed opinions.
I listen to football on radio at work quite often and love it compared to watching streams, which I find a thoroughly dispiriting experience.
As a kid I would be in bed and I could hear my Dad listening to the football on the radio in the bathroom, it always sounded so enthralling. I think it was on Radio 2 in those days.
I used to drive home after work some evenings, listening to a game on 5live and it would sound thrilling, frenzied commentary against a background of a noisy crowd. I'd be thinking, "This sounds a good game, it's on the telly, I'll watch this when I get in" Then when I put the telly on it was absolute shite.
Of the commentators, Alan Green pisses me off these days. And Brian Clarke on Piccadilly was pretty dreary on City's games.
But radio is still a great experience.

We were on about the radio at work - used to love the magic of a crackly hissy radio2 coverage of away international / European midweek matches - something ultimately satisfying about a distant roar & a faint commentator trying to describe what had happened as the signal kept dropping out - halcyon days (too young though for it to be city lol!)

AC Milan away. At school with my head in a desk listening to a tranny.
That meant something different in those days!
Oh and the cup draw on a Monday dinnertime was magic.

Used to love to listen to the sport on the radio when I was a kid. It was nerve wrecking.
In the winter, during the ice-hockey season the radio had coverage from all the league games and they jumped from arena to arena. When there was a goal anywhere they played a jingle before going to that particular arena where they would (ecstatically) explain what just happened. That wait, those couple of seconds, from hearing the jingle til you got to hear if your team had scored or perhaps conceded was both heaven and hell on earth. I sometimes miss it!

The jingle for 5 Live's 5 O Clock sports report still reminds me of being a kid and heading home from Maine Road after a match with my parents, with the mood of the car totally dictated by the result of the game we'd just been to!

Stuart Hall's match report was always, and remains, a must listen on saturday afternoons.

mr_nool wrote:Used to love to listen to the sport on the radio when I was a kid. It was nerve wrecking.
In the winter, during the ice-hockey season the radio had coverage from all the league games and they jumped from arena to arena. When there was a goal anywhere they played a jingle before going to that particular arena where they would (ecstatically) explain what just happened. That wait, those couple of seconds, from hearing the jingle til you got to hear if your team had scored or perhaps conceded was both heaven and hell on earth. I sometimes miss it!

On local radio they also used to go to the grounds when there was a goal prefixed with a jingle. But worse, they had two. "It's a goal!!!" (please be us, please be us) or "Oh No" (Five minutes to go, one nil up, I know it'll be us)
The relief after an "Oh No" when they'd go Gigg Lane or Priestfield "Where Stockport have fallen further behind"
I still think the radio has a lot to offer, and is far superior to live streams.

mr_nool wrote:Used to love to listen to the sport on the radio when I was a kid. It was nerve wrecking.
In the winter, during the ice-hockey season the radio had coverage from all the league games and they jumped from arena to arena. When there was a goal anywhere they played a jingle before going to that particular arena where they would (ecstatically) explain what just happened. That wait, those couple of seconds, from hearing the jingle til you got to hear if your team had scored or perhaps conceded was both heaven and hell on earth. I sometimes miss it!

It's still on. "la la la la mååål".
Radio is OK when you wan't to do other things but still want to be updated what's going on.
I often use the Computer that way when I'm not watching City but other PL games.
CTID!!