Alistair (Ali) Bruce-Ball

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

We talk into the back of them because we don't need to talk because you're going to talk in the front.

So we talk in the back.

So this is quite alien to me, actually, holding it in the correct way.

But it does mean, I mean, also going back to the Mexico match, where did we have four, three, about four people, didn't we?

Yes.

In the build up.

And that is a struggle in itself because it doesn't cut out all the ambient noise, obviously, because it comes in the back as well.

So that is a bit of a struggle there.

when you're trying to balance the amount of effects in the ground.

That's another one, isn't it, that our listeners might not know, but quite often, so let's say a game is being presented from not inside the stadium, a producer will often say to us, Mike's live.

So we're not talking, but our mics are up because they want that stadium out.

But it's also a warning to us is that we can't, you know, you're,

Well, whenever you're near a microphone, we know that rule, as in you've got to think that you're on air.

But we're not meant to speak, but we're just being told that our mics are live.

Yeah, I mean, when we have the effects, and during the tournament you've had the effects as well, I think the mics live means the line is up, not necessarily the mics are up, because we could fade your mics down, obviously, and we've got effects that we put in.

But obviously they are being used to mask if a presenter is not in the stadium.

There are several things about using the lip mics that I love.

The fact that they look so old fashioned.

The fact that probably this is how they've always been used.

You know, probably Raymond Glendening was commentating with a lip mic.

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