Heroes & Villains, the Aston Villa fanzine
Heroes & Villains => Heroes Discussion => Topic started by: kipeye on September 05, 2020, 09:59:27 AM
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It's been a while since this was mentioned but have been listening to it for the last year, mostly on my long commute to work. I have now managed to filter out those appalling ads so that I can catch up with the news and now tune in regularly. I have found it reasonably entertaining and nowhere near as bad as you lot said. I have never heard Brazil, so that might be a reason.
Anyway, I wanted to ask-is there a Talk Sport 1? Just curious as I can't find it if there is one and what sports radio would you recommend-my commute is an hour each way minimum and usually 8.00 am and 4 pm. Ta.
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There is a TalkSport 1, but is just called TalkSport. I find it a really hit and miss bunch of shows though with Illiterate Alan Brazil and Ally 'I think I'm really funny' McCoist in. Shouty Jim White on afterwards, although I do find Simon Jordan talks some sense. Hawksby and Jacobs are a really non-funny pair of air fillers. Adrian Durham just winds people up but can be ok on the drive home.
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Cheers Newby. That probably explains why I haven't heard Brazil. Not sure why I can't find it on DAB or FM, not that I want to now.
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I have a really low bar with stuff like this and can easily put up with listening to rubbish presenters without getting annoyed
but even for me Jim White, Jason Cundy and Andy Goldstein are absolute wankspangles
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H and J are probably the best of a bad bunch.
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I have a really low bar with stuff like this and can easily put up with listening to rubbish presenters without getting annoyed
but even for me Jim White, Jason Cundy and Andy Goldstein are absolute wankspangles
Wankspangles may become my word of the day. I couldn't agree more. There are days when I just can't listen to Brazil or Durham as my tolerance of their winding up is low. The Moose is also a fuckwit. They are the Daily Star of the airwaves. Saturday football coverage is pretty good though and Durham is very good at that. On a different note, I am pleased that Soccer Saturday has had a cull.
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H and J are probably the best of a bad bunch.
I'd go along with this, and add Simon Jordan and Danny Kelly to my own non-wankspangle list.
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H and J are probably the best of a bad bunch.
Each to his own but I can't stand either of them, or that bloody idiot Moose.
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I can't listen to TalkSport any more.
Years ago; I used to like the Sports Breakfast with Parry & Brazil. And then there was a two Mikes show with Parry and Mike Graham, which was on through the night - that was funny. The rest is Aids for your ears.
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I reckon Laura Woods is ok on the breakfast show Monday to Wednesday, Brazil now only does Thursday and Friday. I agree about The Moose, absolutely useless.
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H and J are probably the best of a bad bunch.
I'd go along with this, and add Simon Jordan and Danny Kelly to my own non-wankspangle list.
Danny Kelly was the other one I was trying to recall, seems a decent guy. Too good for that shit.
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I wouldn't admit to polite society that I'd ever listened to TalkSport, but to you lot, I think Hawksbee and Jacobs are excellent and Max Rushden and Barry Glendenning's Sunday morning show is also really good. Danny Kelly is also a great broadcaster. The rest of it is total shit, however.
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I have to filter my listening depending who’s on. Hawkesbee and Jacobs are OK if only to listen to Andy Jacobs rants after Chelsea fail to do anything other than win every game comprehensively. I really like Max Rushden’s self deprecating style and him and Barry Glendenning are very good, although now teamed up also with Charlie Baker on Saturday who’s a funny bloke.
Danny Kelly is excellent especially as they sometimes pair him up with any old co presenter. Durham is very good at what he does, throws out the bait and waits for the bites. Simon Jordan is very good especially when talking through football finance issues.
The list of awful contributors is so long though. Abrahams mumbling “my best mate” routine, Darren Gough being the font of all knowledge, Brazil’s comedy freebee pisshead act. Danny Murphy, he’s angry isn’t he? Bob Mills from Win, lose or draw. Eh, have I missed something?
Two stand out for me though for different reasons. One being Andy Goldstein. If anyone is more in love with himself and his opinions I don’t think I’ve heard them, totally dismissing and condescending to anyone who disagrees with him. The other is Jim White, the ‘face’ of transfer deadline day and all round sycophantic friend of the footballing world. I turned on this week and heard “let’s hear a clip of Andros Townsend and let me say do you know what I have so I’ve been so impressed with him since he joined us here on Talksport his contributions have been magnificent”. It must take him an age every day lubing himself up the amount of backsides he goes up.
Natalie Sawyer, she’s awful too.
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I wouldn't admit to polite society that I'd ever listened to TalkSport, but to you lot, I think Hawksbee and Jacobs are excellent and Max Rushden and Barry Glendenning's Sunday morning show is also really good. Danny Kelly is also a great broadcaster. The rest of it is total shit, however.
i really like football weekly. The absence of any ex pro has always been a benefit. (They had the odd one but always a shit show)
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Talksport. Radio for people who think BBC 5 Live is too high-brow. And considering how that station's output has deteriorated in recent times the bar isn't set particularly high.
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I wouldn't admit to polite society that I'd ever listened to TalkSport, but to you lot, I think Hawksbee and Jacobs are excellent and Max Rushden and Barry Glendenning's Sunday morning show is also really good. Danny Kelly is also a great broadcaster. The rest of it is total shit, however.
i really like football weekly. The absence of any ex pro has always been a benefit. (They had the odd one but always a shit show)
Football Weekly is a staple for me, as is the Football Ramble (originally because my mate is part of it, but I think it's just genuinely good too).
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Hawksbee & Jacobs are excellent broadcasters. They can do both the serious stuff and the humorous stuff equally well. They are a very good combination. Hawksbee is the upbeat one and Jacobs is the world weary one.
I quite like 'The Two Mikes'. Mike Parry is actually a very intelligent and knowledegable journalist but most of the time he prefers to be controversial just for the sake of it or he plays the buffoon.
Some of the best memories I have of Talksport was when Colin Murray and Keith Gillespie went out to Euro 2016 to cover Northern Ireland. They were basically broadcasting whilst being pissed for the entire time they were out there.
As mentioned above Rushden and Glendenning are a good listen and Danny Kelly is always ecellent.
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Living in Thailand i listen to Talk sport often as keeps me upto date whats happening in the UK,
Before i did enjoy Alan Brazil in the morning ( Midday Here ) but changed to Thursday and Friday, The Monday to Wednesday Laura Woods is terrible and Mccoist laugh at his own jokes for 10 minutes which not funny at all.
Jim 10 - 1 believes his own hype but only listen when Simon Jordan is in as like his Knowledge whats goes on behind the club.
H and J i do like, ( i'm usually driving home this time) clips of the week sometime really funny.
Drive time winds me up and usually switched off by then as can't stand him with Gough sorry forget his name. Think his a peterborough an.
In the Morning guest Rupert Bell is good as speaks sense about the Villa.
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I wouldn't admit to polite society that I'd ever listened to TalkSport, but to you lot, I think Hawksbee and Jacobs are excellent and Max Rushden and Barry Glendenning's Sunday morning show is also really good. Danny Kelly is also a great broadcaster. The rest of it is total shit, however.
I agree with Sexual Ealing.
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Talksport. Radio for people who think BBC 5 Live is too high-brow. And considering how that station's output has deteriorated in recent times the bar isn't set particularly high.
Radio 5 is basically mumsnet radio, I'd flit between Radio 4 and Talksport when travelling.
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I usually have podcasts on these days when travelling - or sometimes I drive in silence - it's the only peace and quiet I get.
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When I was pretty ill a few years back I listened to Talksport whilst I was in hospital. When I got back home I was confined to bed and on a lot of medication which caused me to drift in and out of sleep. I found it hard to concentrate on TV for long so being able to put Talksport on at any hour of the day or night (even if a lot of the time I fell asleep) was what kept me sane. I even started to enjoy the quaint discussions on 'Fisherman's Blues' even though I have no knowledge of or interest in fishing. I am pretty sure the guy Nigel who does it knows each and every one of his callers personally.
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The last time I listened to Talk Sport properly was when Collymore was on there. I found him quite listenable.
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He certainly was. Gets a bit too angry but he's coming from the right place (I don't mean Cannock).
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It's owned by Rupert Murdoch. That's all you need to know.
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There is that.
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On principle would not watch or listen to anything Murdoch is involved in, he is a prime example of whats wrong in the world. Despicable individual.
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Anything Murdoch owns I try to boycott on principle. Sky, The Sun, Talksport, The Times all ignored. Along with the cesspools of Facebook and Twitter, my life is immeasurably better ignoring people having opinions for money.
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Over here Fox News is filled with far right idiots just like in the states, avoid it like the plague.
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Anything Murdoch owns I try to boycott on principle. Sky, The Sun, Talksport, The Times all ignored. Along with the cesspools of Facebook and Twitter, my life is immeasurably better ignoring people having opinions for money.
He doesn't have an interest in Sky anymore I believe.
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Anything Murdoch owns I try to boycott on principle. Sky, The Sun, Talksport, The Times all ignored. Along with the cesspools of Facebook and Twitter, my life is immeasurably better ignoring people having opinions for money.
He doesn't have an interest in Sky anymore I believe.
It's owned by News UK.
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Anything Murdoch owns I try to boycott on principle. Sky, The Sun, Talksport, The Times all ignored. Along with the cesspools of Facebook and Twitter, my life is immeasurably better ignoring people having opinions for money.
He doesn't have an interest in Sky anymore I believe.
It's owned by News UK.
I thought it was Comcast?
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It's owned by Wireless Group, which was bought by News UK. It's why Collymore was let go (having been a big supporter of the Justice for the 96 campaign, and therefore critical of The S*n) and why Colin Murray resigned (for similar reasons).
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Not being in the UK I've never listened to Talk Sport. Pretty much all podcasts for me namely Football Weekly, Off the Ball (BBC Scotland), Second Captains and the Totally Football Show.
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It's owned by Wireless Group, which was bought by News UK. It's why Collymore was let go (having been a big supporter of the Justice for the 96 campaign, and therefore critical of The S*n) and why Colin Murray resigned (for similar reasons).
That's Talksport, I was referring to Sky.
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It's owned by Wireless Group, which was bought by News UK. It's why Collymore was let go (having been a big supporter of the Justice for the 96 campaign, and therefore critical of The S*n) and why Colin Murray resigned (for similar reasons).
That's Talksport, I was referring to Sky.
I think Murdoch sold Sky, but he owns TalkSport, which was what I thought we were talking about!
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We are but a poster made a comment about Murdoch owned companies that they were boycotting and included Sky.
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We are but a poster made a comment about Murdoch owned companies that they were boycotting and included Sky.
Ah, sorry!
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And then there was a two Mikes show with Parry and Mike Graham, which was on through the night - that was funny. The rest is
That was just a bit mad. You'd have Tommy from Glasgow ringing up every night off his box until they eventually got bored and sacked him off.
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I see it the same as BBC WM, I just can't listen to the shit.
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I see it the same as BBC WM, I just can't listen to the shit.
Yeah, both are absolute shite
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I only ever listen to radio 4 - love the archers
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I only ever listen to radio 4 - love the archers
Cam and his brother?
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Not being in the UK I've never listened to Talk Sport. Pretty much all podcasts for me namely Football Weekly, Off the Ball (BBC Scotland), Second Captains and the Totally Football Show.
Ken Early has a brain but he can be insufferable. I also cringe how they discuss English clubs most of the time yet are always dismissive towards the England national team because "we're all Oirish here". Hardly a novel trope in Irish media but it's reductive and tiresome. Then they'll have a respected English guest journo on or have an exclusive interview woth Danny Rose and be as nice as pie to him.
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I see it the same as BBC WM, I just can't listen to the shit.
BBC WM is a shambles.
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Ray houghton on now talksport about us ‘ they have trimmed the squad’ have we ? ?
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I used to listen to Talksport quite a lot back in the day, but ever since I discovered all the Villa podcasts in the last few years they've taken over my commute listening now
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10000 shoes...would he not donate some to charity or something?
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Gabby was on this morning at 1am and have to say comes across a lot better than some villa fans like to portray- very knowledgable about our history relevant to his age.
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10000 shoes...would he not donate some to charity or something?
Depends, is it 10,000 shoes or pairs?
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On the main station Darren Bent has a Sunday show
5-8pm
Darren Bent's Boot Room
'You can Join Darren Bent for the ultimate weekend review
Where he will also discuss the best boots on the market and the flair of his own wardrobe which boasts over 10,000 shoes '
Also another ex Premier league player, Jamie O’Hara, has a show as presenter for GameDay Countdown on Friday nights 7 onto 10pm
Yes to Bent
No to O'Hara
Other way round.
Bent is a mundane yes man, O’Hare has an abundance of more charisma.
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Not being in the UK I've never listened to Talk Sport. Pretty much all podcasts for me namely Football Weekly, Off the Ball (BBC Scotland), Second Captains and the Totally Football Show.
Ken Early has a brain but he can be insufferable. I also cringe how they discuss English clubs most of the time yet are always dismissive towards the England national team because "we're all Oirish here".
I agree Early can drone on a bit and his review of the weekend's PL is often my least favourite bit of it. I generally prefer the audio clips and the coverage of other sports that I wouldn't necessarily listen to a dedicated podcast on.
As for your second point it doesn't bother me as much and I'm probably guilty of the same thing at times. :)
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Bent is a mundane yes man, O’Hare has an abundance of more charisma.
Callum, John or Dessie?
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Did anybody listen to talksport whilst there was no sport going on? I was curious as to what they did to fill time. Television can throw on repeats or clip shows. Did talksport air best of Andy Jacobs retrospectives or something?
Obviously I was never curious enough to put the radio on and find out.
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Years back, I worked on a job with a chap who'd done a load of work on Sralex's country pile. He's apparently also a man with a penchant for footwear, and from the way my contractor acquaintance told it, his shoe collection had something akin to its own house. During remodelling work there was a slight fuck up in communication and somebody knocked through a wall straight into said collection. The former Aberdeen and St. Mirren manager was allegedly really, really, really not happy about this.
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Sean Dyche has very good taste in shoes.
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Bent is a mundane yes man, O’Hare has an abundance of more charisma.
Callum, John or Dessie?
The new Everton forward from Medellin.
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Sean Dyche has very good taste in shoes.
Oh yeah?
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Sean Dyche has very good taste in shoes.
Is he partial to a pair of Lobbs?
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Talk sport following the postponement of the Everton game....
“It feels like Aston Villa are getting preferential treatment”.
I suppose having a fully functional, open training facility might be preferential to us just for a start.
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The DJs are told to make up controversial stuff they don’t even believe in themselves, just to get reactions and internet hits. It’s literally a Spam/Troll radio station. Been years since I’ve listened to this rubbish
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I don’t understand why people tune into this crap.
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I don’t understand why people tune into this crap.
Nor me...or BBC WM
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Somehow they manage to find enough shit to chat on 1 station, but 2? Good grief.
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It is the Sun Newspaper on air - full of shit