- published: 19 Sep 2016
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Fighting Talk is a topical sports show broadcast on BBC Radio 5 Live during the English football season.
Its first series was broadcast in October 2003, presented by Johnny Vaughan. The second series was presented by Christian O'Connell. The longest-serving presenter has been Colin Murray, who took charge between 2006 and 2013. The show currently has two presenters (Josh Widdicombe and Georgie Thompson) who each take charge of proceedings when available. The show is broadcast on Saturday mornings for an hour between 1100 and 1200. The programme's twelfth series began on 16 August 2014. It is based on the ESPN Show Around The Horn.
The show won a second Gold Sony Radio Academy Award in the sports programme category in 2011. Judges paid tribute to the old-fashioned music hall style of the show and Martin Kelner's many anecdotes.
Either Widdicombe or Thompson (or a stand-in host) chair the show where four guest pundits are invited to expound in turn, preferably with wit and knowledge, their views and opinions on a series of topical sporting events. Most sports are thrown into the fray but there is a strong emphasis on English top-flight football and other sports covered by the British news media.
fighting talk
Well, it's so easy to be witty in retrospect
When you're out of door you pause a moment to reflect
On all the crushing one-liners that you should have said
But you always were reduced to angry words instead
Fighting talk on the stairs
Is enough to show who never cared
Fighting talk, who will be spared
The abuse that's always hurled as you curse and swear
But it's so cruel how the moment
Can let you down
And how eloquence deserts you
When you find yourself on sensitive ground
You slam the door and turn the catch
You turned your home into a prison
Conversation into a slanging match
Fighting talk on the stairs
Is enough to show who never cared
Fighting talk, who will be spared
The abuse that's always hurled as you curse and swear
But oh my love, I'm sick and tired
Of all the cruelty love's acquired
We never more need come to harm
If you lay your head here on my faithless arm
Fighting talk on the stairs
Is enough to show who never cared
Fighting talk, who will be spared
The abuse that's always hurled as you curse and swear
Fighting talk on the stairs
Fighting talk on the stairs
Fighting talk on the stairs