Sports commentator Conor McNamara talks to The42.
The longest English football season has finally ended, elongated as it was to create space into which a World Cup could be crowbarred.Limerick-born commentator Conor McNamara lives in Dublin nowadays, and he commutes across the Irish Sea every week to do games for Match of the Day and 5Live along with television commentary for the Premier League’s own in-house broadcaster.
“Nobody hears it here but it’s heard around the world, places like Hong Kong, Australia, Canada, and across Africa.” “The first game I did after the restart was at Norwich. I was in the normal position, the subs were warming up, and they were turning around and looking at me, listening to the commentary. Now I don’t mind millions of people listening to me, but I don’t want you in real life here listening to me! I was once doing a game at Villa when John Terry was the assistant [manager], he came up to a position in the stand near us to get a better view.
“It was very chaotic”, reflects McNamara. “We were learning things off social media like anyone else. The producer rang me up – it wasn’t his fault – and he said that this was going on, ‘what’s your view?’ From there we segue into a peek behind the Match of the Day curtain. BBC commentator Guy Mowbray almost quit Twitter earlier this year, growing exasperated with the fans telling him that commentary is recorded after the game. Not so. Commentators go to games and do them live as, McNamara explains, “you don’t know what game will be the best, and the commentator interviews the managers after the game, so you’re sending them to do that anyway.
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