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http://www.bbc.co.uk/pressoffice/pressreleases/stories/2008/05_may/19/baker.shtml

Brilliant news,the best football phone in host ever.

I'm sure if England had qualified for the Euros this wouldnt have happened and we would have to put up with the inane Lovejoy kissing everyones ass and bigging up everything Chelsea.So ever cloud...

With this news and Danny Kelly getting a regular gig with Talk sport hope this doesnt put pay to the planned return of the two Dans podcast that was supoosed to be returning next season.

606 listenable again, surely not.  I gave up after Mellor finished, and I only listened to him because it was funny when a woman rang in.  The whole "ooooooh, a laaaaady, liking football, wonderful" as if he was stuck in the 1950s was great.

I don't like the man but I love the radio programmes so I might actually be able to listen to 606 again.

Time to start taking bets. Does he walk or will he get sacked first? And how many weeks/hours/minutes will he last?

danny kelly and stan collymore are pairing up on talksport this coming season.will be on the 7-10pm show.

Danny Baker  8)    The original 606 when he did it was brilliant, compulsory listening.

   Recall his line when taliking about Hoddle's Swindon....."they don't just want to beat you, they want to humiliate you"  8)

Excellent news. The Danny Baker phone is actually quite good.



Oh god, not Collybore. Tanks for the warning.

i think collymore is pretty good personally.

Am I the only one who thinks the 2 Dannys - Baker and Kelly - are both tools of the highest order?

No you are not.

:shock:

Well each to their own but I'd think you were in a bit of minority on here.

The clips on here:

http://www.internettreehouse.co.uk/

are some of the funniest radio I've ever heard.

Loads of radio presenters working now are doing half arsed imitations of the sort of features that DB used to do.

And there's been no national football phone in show worth listening too since the Beeb completely lost it's sense of humour and sacked the two Danny's (other then the brief stint they did together at talksport).

Anything's better than Alan Fucking Green though, surely? And Danny Baker was actually dead good at 606 in the old days.

here here green is a miserable c--t.

Compared to the like of Tim Lovejoy and Spoony - Danny Baker is the Pope of Football Radio!

I don't mind Greenie as a commentator, at least he's prepared to admit when a game is fucking dull and the play is shit, but as a presenter of a phone in he is the most patronising humorless twat imaginable.

What I loathe about Green is his complete inability to remember that he is an a massively priviledged position.

Example: "Well so here we are at watching the World Cup final, on the fucking moon and I'm staying in a five star hotel for a month and getting paid for it  - and those crab canapes I just had were a bit cold..."

Okay so it might not be an exact quote....

Green is a hero, he just makes an opinion based on not a lot and will fiercly defend it and belittle anyone who doesn't share it.  8)  Hero

That sounds like the definition of an utter cock to me, but there you go.

Who wants to listen to a sucky sucky?

This is it. Hopefully Spoony got so much abuse for that Franchise programme that he's given up. I know I dished out as much as I could.

I didnt like Danny Baker back in the day because he just used to get totally carried away by the sound of his own voice. Quite often a caller would say something good and he would just talk over them. Remmember the night he got sacked, just layed into this ref about how the show was fans only and berated him until he hung up.

Danny Kelly is excellent.

But Ive enjoyed Terry Christian and Micky Quinn on Talksport. Obviously Christian is not everyones cup of tea, and he isnt suitable for anyone who hates Man United, but they did know their stuff.

Hopefully they will fire the woman researcher as well and get in a proper football statto. That bint on 606 is useless!

Did anyone else hear Fraiser Digby's washbag mentioned on Danny Baker's 606 on Tuesday? It was an anonymous message about someone pilfering a tortoiseshell comb from it during the Premier League season...

Okay so I've ruined most of that story but it was a very good programme. Again.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio/podcasts/606/

Danny Kelly on under the moon (late night channel 4) in the late 90's and early 00's was cult classic viewing made all the better by the arrival of web misstress Lia Rogers and drunks phoning in after a session at the pub and Kelly ripping them to shreds.

And yet it was somehow almost ruined by that goggle-eyed cretin named Tom, a man so witless and vapid that he seemed to be a slightly higher rent version of Jed Pitman.

Agreed.  Who was the bald loony that looked like whasshisname from the Crystal Maze on the early episodes?

He knew nothing about football or sport but added an unusual and amusing twist.

I only vaguely remember him but the magic of Google comes up with this interview with Observer Sports Month with Danny Kelly...

Man, those early shows didn't go well,' Kelly says with a rueful smile. 'I'm not blaming Tim entirely, but it didn't help that he wouldn't rehearse and he was having trouble with his contact lenses so couldn't read the autocue. Those first 10 shows, I remember them being particularly disastrous.'

Actually it isn't a bad interview... Very long though.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/sport/2008/apr/06/sportfeatures.television