The work of a sports commentator, with all its recognition and inevitability when watching any sport on television, remains largely unexplored as its own branch of sports journalism. In Croatia, public television channels, as well as specialized sports channels, broadcast numerous sports and sports leagues, and one of the largest and most popular is the English Premier League. Both in the global framework, as well as in domestic broadcasts of Premier League matches, they require a specific commentary approach when preparing for the broadcast and methods of analyzing and commenting before and during the broadcast. The aim of this paper is to show the specifics of the work of a sports commentator on the example of a commentator of the English Premier League broadcast on Sportklub television, methods of commentary preparation and analysis, and to provide an assessment of the state of commentary preparation and analysis in the time period ten years ago, today and ten years from now. The study explained and defined the factors of popularity and financial power of the Premier League, as well as the state of sports commentator occupation, including methods of preparation and analysis for Premier League television match commentary on a sample of six media professionals, research participants - Sportklub commentators. The research showed the specifics of the sports commentator's work. By identifying the main factors of commentary methods of preparation and analysis for television broadcasts, the constituent elements of the work of a sports commentator are presented. Ultimately, the assessment of the state of commentary preparation and analysis in the given period shows the progress in the possibilities of preparation and analysis, where a shift in the researched time frames was determined.