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Teaser - The Interview: Patrick Kendrick (Ep. 165)
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The Italian Football Podcast is delighted to interview Serie A World Feed commentator, EU conference interpreter, journalist, reporter and broadcaster Patrick Kendrick.
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What should commentators avoid?
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Speaker
Can you give us a list of things as a commentator or for a co-commentator, things that they should never do? I can. Yeah. I like it. It's a slightly more controversial take on, as opposed to what to do, what not to do. A big thing for me co-commentator wise is don't interrupt basically, which sounds obvious, but you'd be amazed.
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Speaker
The following is a clip from this week's Italian football podcast.
Pandemic challenges for commentators
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Speaker
And there were difficulties I know for certain colleagues during the pandemic, particularly with Project Restart on the Premier League.
00:00:41
Speaker
and everything that was put in place there with the whole Return to Play protocol under UEFA because you know they're very strict office guidelines when people are doing games from a studio and unfortunately some matches a number of matches are done off tube as we call it not necessarily always from the ground and
Role of lead commentators
00:00:57
Speaker
And so often you would have lead commentators and co-commentators in different booths and they couldn't even necessarily have the eye contact, which is such an important cue as to who's going to come in and when. In terms of the lead commentator, I think, yeah, let the pictures tell the story. We all talk too much. I'm especially guilty of it. And you need to remember it's not all about you.