Manish Bhasin
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Manish Bhasin is a football presenter for the BBC. He currently presents Football Focus on BBC1 with regular pundits Mark Lawrenson and Lee Dixon and is on Saturday's 12.10 p.m.
In February 2004 Manish joined BBC’s “Football Focus” team, a weekly magazine style show that previews the weekend's top football action. At the start of the following season, he became the main presenter of the show, replacing Ray Stubbs.
In October 2006, he was announced as the presenter of the BBC's highlights coverage of The Ashes. The has been criticised for this apparently "dull" presenting style and for the fact that he appears to have no link with the game of cricket.
Manish had previously been at ITV’s Central News, where he presented in-depth coverage of the region's essential sport, including a comprehensive analysis of the financial crisis at Leicester City. During his successful tenure Manish was nominated for “Regional Sports Presenter or Commentator of the Year” at the Royal Television Society Sport Awards and would later present “Soccer Sunday”.
“Soccer Sunday” was nominated as best “Regional Sports Actuality Programme” featuring the best action from the region's Football League teams which Manish presented in a regular magazine format.
Previously Manish had spent 5 years at BBC Radio Leicester as Sports presenter/commentator including the drive time “Drive at 5” programme presenting the latest news and sport.
During this period Manish’s highlights include reporting from Leicester Tigers’ last minute victory in the 2001 Rugby European Cup final (Leicester Tigers v. Stade Francais) and again the following year at Cardiff's Millennium Stadium (Leicester Tigers v Munster).
He also presented highlights of the African Cup of Nations 2006 on BBC3 and was a roving reporter during the 2006 FIFA World Cup.
Bhasin is a passionate supporter of Leicester City F.C. He has made no secret of the fact he attended the Liverpool v AC Milan UEFA Champions League final in May 2005 in Istanbul.
