Daily Sport of radio stations....
Makes me laugh how people don’t understand the format.
Durham is paid to play his “pantomime villain” role in a designated format.....attracting the Daily Sport types....he’s really successful and good at it.
A common format that every Talk radio station uses is to have 2 presenters.
They agree before the show that one plays “good cop’ whilst the other is “bad cop”
Its really important that on most issues the presenters have polarised opposite views....this creates thinking about alternative views
and is more likely to encourage callers.
However there are other slots and presenters on Talk Sport who are more serious.
Talksport have a very serious/ informative Euro football slot aimed at the nerdy types.
They have a show with a panel of black presenters talking about general football with a focus on black issues and black players..aimed at black listeners,
They have a football based comedy slot with Hawksby and Jacobs....aimed at people that want something more light hearted.
So they are clearly trying to be all things to all men.....people have different tastes and are given choice.
Regards Durham....I do sometimes....find his wind up reporting entertaining when it’s at someone else’s expense.
At least he shares it around attacking and taking the Micky out of all half the PL clubs.....mainly the big clubs.
He used to have the “Daily Arsenal“ where he‘d think of every angle to criticise and make fun of the biggest club in London.
Actually I supose it’s a complement he occasionally gives us a mention....clubs like Brighton, Fulham and Burnley rarely ever receive a mention on TalkSport.