Swansea head coach Francesco Guidolin has signed a new two-year contract. The Italian joined the club in January when they were just two points above the relegation zone and has since guided them to 11th place in the Premier League.A board meeting was held at the Liberty Stadium on Wednesday to discuss the 60-year-olds future and it has now been confirmed Guidolin will remain in the role. The Italian members of Guidolins backroom staff - Gabriele Ambrosetti and Diego Bortoluzzi - have also been offered new contracts. Francesco Guidolin has signed a new two-year deal with Swansea Im pleased to confirm that we have reached an agreement with Francesco on a new two-year contract, chairman Huw Jenkins told Swanseas official website.Francesco fully deserves the chance to continue his good work into the new campaign. He was prepared to come into the club at such a difficult time and put himself in a pressure situation with the club fighting for survival.He has achieved the goal of securing top-flight football for this club with plenty to spare and has earned the right to start afresh next season.Its going to be another challenge for everyone, but we are looking forward to seeing how far he can take this squad of players over a full season. Swansea beat West Ham 4-1 at the Boleyn Ground on Saturday There has obviously been a lot of speculation over recent weeks about a possible change of manager, but the board has been impressed with the way he has quietly gone about the job of improving performances and results since January.Jenkins later spoke to Sky Sports News HQ, where he explained further why the board felt Guidolin should be offered a new deal.The timing was right to make sure things are settling down well to make sure we can plan and get things right for the new season, to get Francesco signed up and to move things on, said Jenkins.We felt the clubs he worked for [in the past] were similar to Swansea. We are a smaller club in the Premier League challenging big clubs and he has done that well in Italy.We are looking forward to him having the full preparation of pre-season, to get everything prepared in the right way, and we can all look forward to the season ahead.There was a lot of speculation in the press as to whether we were talking to other managers.We had discussions, and Francesco is aware of that, but the decision to go down this route is the right one for the club.Jenkins also confirmed US investors looking to buy the club had no input into Guidolins appointment. Swansea City chairman Huw Jenkins said improved performances persuaded them to offer Guidolin a new contract Guidolin said he was honoured to be given a new deal.It is an important day for me, and I am honoured to be given the chance to continue managing this wonderful club, he told Swanseas website.I came into the club at a difficult time, and it was my first experience of the Premier League. Now, I have the possibility to start my work at the beginning of a new season; something Im excited about.I would like to thank my players first of all, plus the staff and our fans. It was very emotional for me to hear them sing my name after the game at West Ham, and Ive had nothing but good wishes from everyone Ive met on the streets of Swansea.The possibility for me to work with them and for them again is very important to me. Its an honour, and I am grateful to the chairman and the board for giving me this opportunity.Swansea host Manchester City in their final match of the season on Saturday, when they will look to finish their campaign with three victories in a row, following their 3-1 win over Liverpool and Saturdays 4-1 victory against West Ham. Also See: Guidolin unsure over future West Ham 1-4 Swansea QUIZ: Old football grounds Get a £10 free bet! P. J. 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Theres a particular sadness that comes with the passing of voices from your cricketing childhood, the sense of a past receding forever.Benaud, in particular, was a link between the old world and the new, and the subject of a famous story that illustrates well the change that has now fully come. Channel Nine were among the first broadcasters to switch from two commentators to three for each half-hour stint. So incident-free was one session involving Benaud, and so keen were his partners to fill it, that the 30 minutes passed without Richie uttering a word.True or not (and it has the hint of the apocryphal about it), it showed the world view of someone who had been educated in the early language of television, when the viewer was assumed to be able to watch the pictures and see what was happening without being told. Benaud would enhance and complement when required, hence the genius of his pause-and-talk style: Dont even bother looking for that… its gone into the confectionery stall and out again doesnt contain the words Botham, Alderman, six, or anything else that immediately identifies it with the events it followed, and yet simply reading the words will transport anyone who remembers the moment.Benaud was that rarity - a man who was highly accomplished in two separate fields, as a player and a broadcaster. The other greats of my formative years werre clearly divided.ddddddddddddOn radio, John Arlott, Christopher Martin-Jenkins, Brian Johnston, Henry Blofeld, Cozier, Don Mosey and so on were broadcasters, and were there to describe. Around them were experts - Trevor Bailey, Fred Trueman - former players there to illuminate. On television, the distinction has always been less clear: Jim Laker was in situ for the BBC, along with Raymond Illingworth, Ted Dexter, Jack Bannister and more. Among them they created a kind of lingua franca, a paradigm for how the game was described, and by extension, how it was thought about - perhaps even how it existed in the minds of its followers.Almost every cricket broadcast now features three commentators, cast in various roles. The idea that some may sit silently, a la Benaud, if theres nothing to say, seems as quaint as returning to 1970s bats. In the full-on, muscular present day, cricket is endlessly happening, series piled on series, format on format, day upon day, and there is a wild clamour of voices keeping up.And just as the game has changed, so has the way its talked about. There are still the former pros who have an aptitude for the job. David Lloyd is utterly natural but steeped in the game. Mike Atherton, increasingly avuncular on the mic and a superlative correspondent for the Times, is a significant and important figure in interpreting this new era. Ian Ward has led a great leap forward in technical analysis, and Key and Mark Butcher have established a great rapport with both players and the camera. The quality of the coverage is incomparable to the 70s and 80s, when the single fixed camera presented every other over with a fine view of the batsmans backside.But what of the lingua franca? How will it frame the game for the generation who are now becoming cricket followers? They wont have Danny Morrison in their ear in the same way that Arlott was once in mine (mercifully so). Theyll think nothing of Nick Knight saying Is that a boundary… yes, it is… as they watch a ball rolling very obviously to the rope, because they would never have heard a simple, marvellous crisply uttered just as the ball breaks through the field.This blog isnt intended as a lament. We have gained so much from the advancement in coverage and in access to the world game. 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