Carlisle audio commentary on SW - wiv Roy bleedin' Hudd??

[Gilliver's Travels]

Although The Clown of Pevensey Bay claims he's really some bloke called Derek Lacey. (Hopefully not related to Albion fan David.)

But to hear such a ridiculously biased commentary coming, not from a proper Cumbrian voice, but from some grating, cockney Roy Hudd soundalike is a weird experience. What's he doing up there, when he clearly belongs Dahn at The Den.

Derek calls all the Carlisle players by their first names - (ooh, yes, Simon), or worse, their nicknames (It's Murph!) , and regularly shouts out encouragement to his team. Is he really a BBC-trained commentator? Or some kind of cheap alternative plastic fan? Whatever, it's all so embarrassingly amateurish.

Still, makes you very glad for the impartial, totally professional style of SCR's very own Hawesey.

For true second-half entertainment, I recommend pictures from Justin TV and commentary from Derek. For whom it may well end in tears.

 

[The Clown of Pevensey Bay]

He doesn't have a proper Cumbrian accent, but Carlisle fans LOVE him. Because, basically, he's one of them. I know he doesn't have the panache of Hawesy or Mike Ingham, but he makes for a surprisingly enjoyable listen. Unbelievable, I know, but I used to know a blind Carlisle fan who would go to every home game and listen to him to find out what was going on.

 

[Gilliver's Travels]

Almost worth a poll, this. [But I won't]. Are people who want an enthusiastic, animated but essentially objective, BBC-style account of proceedings on the pitch actually outnumbered by those really wanting only a blinkered, home fan perspective?

I fear they may be.

 

[The Clown of Pevensey Bay]

I think if you asked a neutral, or if you conducted a survey, people would say "Oh, of course we want neutral, professional, matter-of-fact commentary".

But people have a big emotional attachment to this sort of thing. When other BBC local radio stations have lost the rights to cover Leeds and Reading recently, the fanbase has gone MENTAL.

 

[Arthritic Toe]

Was emu involved too?