Alistair (Ali) Bruce-Ball

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608 appearances 1 recordings 1 series first heard Jul 2026 last heard 9 Jul

Alistair (Ali) Bruce-Ball’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.

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Football Daily · World Cup: The Commentators' View Special 2.0 · 9 Jul 2026 podcast

Here, we put out an effects mic just for us, but we also have a feed of the rifle mics that are down on pit side.

And they are those long... Those long, yeah.

That footballers keep kicking out of the way.

That's the ones, yeah.

So if you look at the next time you watch, there's normally one pointed towards the corner flag.

Yeah, they look like sausages.

Yeah, sir.

Yeah.

Furry sausages.

Rob, who else across the world uses lit mics?

Are the BBC the only people?

Yeah, I think it is.

I've never ever seen anyone else apart from British people.

And other broadcasters are fascinated by them, aren't they?

Yeah, absolutely.

They look at us like, yeah.

I mean, and what we do as the engineers, we normally, I mean, I'm doing it wrong.

I'm doing it correctly now and it feels really bad because...

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