Danny Baker/James Whale

[snakehips 0]

Listened to 606 tonight after the Turkey game. What a pleasure it was to listen to someone who is a genuine football man and not some arsehole like Green.

 

 

As for Whale ;) You're not gonna believe this You know he got sacked by talksport. Well, I turned on the telly late on sat night only to see him selling bedding on bidtv!!!!!!!!11111111111 :o I kid you not. How the mighty have fallen.

[Jimbo 175]

Listened to 606 tonight after the Turkey game. What a pleasure it was to listen to someone who is a genuine football man and not some arsehole like Green.

 

 

As for Whale ;) You're not gonna believe this You know he got sacked by talksport. Well, I turned on the telly late on sat night only to see him selling bedding on bidtv!!!!!!!!11111111111 :o I kid you not. How the mighty have fallen.

 

Danny Baker is a gem in an otherwise dark and gloomy mine on Talksport, the bloke is total class, shame he supports Spuds.

[snakehips 0]

Listened to 606 tonight after the Turkey game. What a pleasure it was to listen to someone who is a genuine football man and not some arsehole like Green.

 

 

As for Whale ;) You're not gonna believe this You know he got sacked by talksport. Well, I turned on the telly late on sat night only to see him selling bedding on bidtv!!!!!!!!11111111111 :o I kid you not. How the mighty have fallen.

 

Danny Baker is a gem in an otherwise dark and gloomy mine on Talksport, the bloke is total class, shame he supports Spuds.

 

You're pissed!!! Danny Baker is on BBC and supports Millwall. You're thinkin' of Danny Kelly :D

[bawan 0]

James Whale is a fucking mackem .

 

There actually is a lad in my class called James Whale and hes a mackem, he was "Sunderland's Fan of the week" a few months ago.

[Jimbo 175]

Listened to 606 tonight after the Turkey game. What a pleasure it was to listen to someone who is a genuine football man and not some arsehole like Green.

 

 

As for Whale ;) You're not gonna believe this You know he got sacked by talksport. Well, I turned on the telly late on sat night only to see him selling bedding on bidtv!!!!!!!!11111111111 :o I kid you not. How the mighty have fallen.

 

Danny Baker is a gem in an otherwise dark and gloomy mine on Talksport, the bloke is total class, shame he supports Spuds.

 

You're pissed!!! Danny Baker is on BBC and supports Millwall. You're thinkin' of Danny Kelly :D

 

apologies, I meant Danny Kelly.

[sweetleftpeg 0]

Danny Baker has been a breath of fresh air for 606. It seems the quality of caller ringing in has gone up about 1000% since he's come back. Lots of people who..shock horror..actually go to watch football have been ringing up.

[Happy Face 29]

The 90 minute giveaway is a bit crap, particularly tired given his Simpsons/Godfather/Album/movie/player etc. giveaways in the past, but otherwise he's as quality as ever.

 

For those that missed it...

 

http://downloads.bbc.co.uk/podcasts/fiveli...080615-2259.mp3

[Happy Face 29]

Tune into BBC Radio 5 Live football phone-in 6-0-6 any evening and you'll invariably hear the same voices offering the same opinions. The pompous golf club bore pontificating indignantly about yet another Cristiano Ronaldo triple axel with pike. The slow-witted Big Four flat-earther who thinks the relegation trapdoor is a thick black line above Everton. The barely sentient Liverpool fan, whose inarticulate opinions are so moronic you're left wondering how it was that somebody so evidently in need of community care could possibly have been let loose on the national airwaves.

 

The listeners who call in are often worse. If being subjected to the tedious bluster of presenters Alan Green, Tim Lovejoy and the byword for haplessness that is Spoony doesn't convince you that getting in among your radio with a claw-hammer is a good idea, then the echoed insanity of Gavin on the A38 who forgot to turn down his car stereo almost certainly will.

 

It wasn't always like this. Having quickly realised that broadcasting a successful football phone-in show without input from the kind of cranks who like to call football phone-in shows was always likely to be a non-runner, BBC suits opted for the next best scenario by installing Danny Baker as the original ringmaster of the 6-0-6 circus in the early nineties.

 

Fed up with missing Millwall's away matches, he left for a stint on Radio 1 in 1993, then returned to the relaunched Radio 5 Live in 1996, only to lose his job a year later. In the wake of comically savage attacks on Birmingham City managing director Karren Brady and the then Tottenham Hotspur chairman Alan Sugar, the straw that did for the camel's lumbar region was some rather robust midweek criticism of referee Mike Reed, who had just awarded Chelsea a penalty for a 116th minute Erland Johnsen dive that resulted in Leicester City being unfairly eliminated from the FA Cup.

 

Baker went ballistic.

 

Although the story that he gave out Reed's address and rallied his listeners to exact retribution could well be apocryphal, he did embark on a spectacularly belligerent rant that culminated in him describing referees as "the maggot at football's golden core", before angrily bollocking his producer for "putting through calls that are just smart-arses who want to be contrary". Pleading for the return of "my old producer", the contrary smart-arse other contrary smart-arses call The Guv'nor was given his P45 instead.

 

Since then, Baker's been around the broadcasting houses, often in cahoots with his co-conspirator, Danny Kelly of NME and Under The Moon fame. The duo's obsession with obscure trivia and the excruciating minutiae of life as a football fan has resulted in some of the funniest football radio shows ever broadcast by two avuncular Londoners with the same first name.

 

They likened the Belfast teenager who had to walk up Belfast's Shankill road in a Celtic shirt as a forfeit to Bruce Willis wearing the sandwich board in Die Hard: With A Vengeance ("the retreat from Moscow was a doddle compared to this!"). They argued with a 12-year-old over whether or not the Grimsby Town mascot was a giant bag of chips or a midget in a yellow raincoat (it was a midget in a yellow raincoat). They pounded the desk in paroxysms of mirth as Gordon the middle-aged Dundee United supporter told them of the giant wooden "United" dickie bow his father made for him when he was a boy ("I wanted something other than a scarf. In the end it was two foot wide, tied round my neck with a big leather strap and by half time I was Quasimodo"). They regularly reduced their listeners and each other to tears of laughter.

 

Yesterday the BBC announced that Baker will be returning to the 6-0-6 studio for a half-dozen shows during Euro 2008. "Of course the problem is that latest figures suggest only 1,400 people in the UK have even a passing interest in the tournament, but I really believe that, come the latter stages, Radio 5 Live can double that tally," he said. "Leastways I've never been to Iceland before and am very much relishing getting to grips with the altitude and native songs as the tournament unfolds."

 

Undeniably funny, occasionally as boorish and rude as Alan Green, but with a better sense of the absurd, none of the pomposity and a lot less self-regard, this spiky Cockney's long overdue return to the 5 Live phone-in fold should provide a much-needed jab in the arm for a radio show that, through every fault of its vacuous incumbent presenters, has come to resemble a refuge for the mentally lame and halt. Listen up during Euro 2008 to hear Danny Baker spank all concerned with six of the best.

 

http://blogs.guardian.co.uk/sport/2008/05/...ly_be_good.html

 

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[Guest alex]

There's something about Danny Baker that gets on my tits but he's definitely different class to the likes of Alan Green and Tim Lovejoy who, in turn, are made to look superb by Spoony.

[MattM4 0]

Why did Whale get the sack from TS?

[Meenzer 15873]

Why did Whale get the sack from TS?

He encouraged listeners to vote for Big Fat Boris.

[MattM4 0]

I thought the whole point of his show was that he was stubborn, opiniated, biased etc... though

[Kid Dynamite 7335]

Apparently you can tell immigrants to fuck off home but if you display a passing interest in who the mayor of london might be you get sacked!?

[Guest alex]

Apparently you can tell immigrants to fuck off home but if you display a passing interest in who the mayor of london might be you get sacked!?

On the radio, anyway.

[snakehips 0]

Apparently you can tell immigrants to fuck off home but if you display a passing interest in who the mayor of london might be you get sacked!?

On the radio, anyway.

 

Listening to George Galloway (I find him fantastic to listen to tbh) on the run up to elections is great You can tell he's absolutely DYING to spout forth his real feelings ;)

[sweetleftpeg 0]

James Whale had also fallen out with the management before this..he wanted to stand for London Mayoral elections but was told if he did he would be sacked. I think they were looking for an excuse to sack him. Personally, I quite liked listening to him. He was blantantly taking the piss with a lot of his views just to wind people up and it worked perfectly. I used to listen to him a lot when I was doing my university assignments, helped with the stress.

[Kevin Carr's Gloves 4095]

James Whale had also fallen out with the management before this..he wanted to stand for London Mayoral elections but was told if he did he would be sacked. I think they were looking for an excuse to sack him. Personally, I quite liked listening to him. He was blantantly taking the piss with a lot of his views just to wind people up and it worked perfectly. I used to listen to him a lot when I was doing my university assignments, helped with the stress.

 

I wouldn't be so sure he was taking the piss he is a right wing tory bigot.

[sweetleftpeg 0]

James Whale had also fallen out with the management before this..he wanted to stand for London Mayoral elections but was told if he did he would be sacked. I think they were looking for an excuse to sack him. Personally, I quite liked listening to him. He was blantantly taking the piss with a lot of his views just to wind people up and it worked perfectly. I used to listen to him a lot when I was doing my university assignments, helped with the stress.

 

I wouldn't be so sure he was taking the piss he is a right wing tory bigot.

 

I think he is and he isn't. He's probably slightly right wing, but he over-eggs it to get a reaction. Weirdly, loads of people listen to him because they hate him.