If it weren’t for the fact that I’m going to be at the match, I’d be tuning in to BBC Radio Five Live Sports Extra this Sunday to hear an alternate version of the commentary.
As this piece explains, back in 1927 from the first radio commentaries, each week’s Radio Times would publish a chart of a football pitch which was divided into eight squares. The commentator would describe the action, while a second voice called out the grid numbers so listeners at home could appreciate where the ball was. The phrase “back to square one” is famously said to come from this system, although a ball played back could equally have ended up in square two.
This week’s Radio Times has reproduced a version of the said chart, but it and the accompanying article are also available online.
(I may record the coverage anyway, radio anorak that I am.)