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The Man Behind The Sheepskin

John Motson or ‘Motty’ as he was known will be fondly remembered by many football supporters up and down the land as the voice of football that they’d grown up with, throughout the 70’s and well into the 00’s. John Motson was a very talented professional who adapted to all forms of broadcasting for the […]

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Greatest Football Commentator

The first football match broadcast live over the radio airwaves was in back 1927 when Sheffield United visited Highbury to face Arsenal. To assist the listeners, The Radio Times magazine printed a reference grid that divided the pitch into numbered sectors. Whilst Teddy Wakelam described what was going on, his background partner C.A. Lewis announced […]

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