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When I was growing up, my favourite commentator on the cricket was Jim laker. I would also agree with the mentions for Clive Everton. Although Jim laker was one of the earlier player commentators, I think the decline of the non playing commentator is a shame. So many ex players across cricket, football and snooker are massively annoying
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Greatest Sporting Commentators on 18:26 - Jul 3 by plasmahoop
When I was growing up, my favourite commentator on the cricket was Jim laker. I would also agree with the mentions for Clive Everton. Although Jim laker was one of the earlier player commentators, I think the decline of the non playing commentator is a shame. So many ex players across cricket, football and snooker are massively annoying
Annoying commentators
CRICKET Phil Tufnell (Not a cheekie chappie at all) Michael Vaughan (Something hidden that is slightly sinister)
FOOTBALL Andy Hinchcliffe (Bizarre incessant and not that subtle hatred of anything QPR) Jamie Carragher (Gobs at a 14 year old and keeps his job) Joe Hart (He is worryingly upright)
I met Henry Blofeld once, I said to him “your voice is very familiar. Should I know you?” he replied: “only if you listen to test match special my dear old thing”.
I’m sure you all know that his dad went to school with Ian Fleming and that’s where the name Blofeld comes from in the bond films.
I thought Sky’s original cricket commentary team was second to none, Gower, botham, athers, nasser, Shane warne, Michael holding, and bumble brought so much insight, experience and anecdotes and humour to it. Favourite lines: when bumble was handing over the commentary, “the batsman’s Willey, the commentator’s Holding” (said deliberately that way round) David Gower handing over the commentary: “to take you through to lunch, it’s Sir Ian Botham, and Mister Nasser Hussain’, such a subtle dig, I got to tell Gower this once, he replied : “poor old Nas, I actually quite like him”
Another shout out for Sid Waddell.
Hugh Johns was my favourite footie commentator, he could make a nil-nil draw sound like a barnstormer.
Going back to the capital radio days, Tony gale was pretty good, think he was at palace one night and him and jonathon pierce were giggling like two schoolboys, the opposition had a player called Bernt Haas, Tony gale kept saying “he must of been out for a curry last night’
I sometimes imagine a parallel universe where Kenneth Wolstenholme’s “They think it’s all over. It is now” soundbite, from the 1966 World Cup Final, never caught on and Hugh Johns’ version ‘on the other side’ did: “Seconds ticking away as Martin Peters goes forward, er, Geoff Hurst goes forward. He might make it three. He has! He has!”.
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Greatest Sporting Commentators on 17:20 - Jul 4 with 1307 views
As others have said Barry Davies, David Coleman, Kent Walton Wrestling, Harry Carpenter, Murray Walker… Sam Matterface god he spends so much time talking about stuff off the pitch he forgets to commentate on what’s in front of him…if the game is on ITV I turn the sound down …
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Greatest Sporting Commentators on 17:23 - Jul 4 with 1300 views
Enjoying Sean Kelly on the Channel 5 Tour De France commentary,
I’ll be honest, anyone who just speaks knowledgeably and manages to finish a sentence without using the word ‘incredible’ or ‘amazing’ is good enough for me.
Greatest Sporting Commentators on 09:14 - Jul 4 by TwoHalves
I sometimes imagine a parallel universe where Kenneth Wolstenholme’s “They think it’s all over. It is now” soundbite, from the 1966 World Cup Final, never caught on and Hugh Johns’ version ‘on the other side’ did: “Seconds ticking away as Martin Peters goes forward, er, Geoff Hurst goes forward. He might make it three. He has! He has!”.
…or Huge Ones, as we used to call him at school, always good for a chuckle.
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Greatest Sporting Commentators on 20:10 - Jul 5 with 1093 views
Greatest Sporting Commentators on 09:14 - Jul 4 by TwoHalves
I sometimes imagine a parallel universe where Kenneth Wolstenholme’s “They think it’s all over. It is now” soundbite, from the 1966 World Cup Final, never caught on and Hugh Johns’ version ‘on the other side’ did: “Seconds ticking away as Martin Peters goes forward, er, Geoff Hurst goes forward. He might make it three. He has! He has!”.
And of course the Dentists (what happened to the Medway Sound ?), used it for the intro to their criminally underrated album.
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Greatest Sporting Commentators on 00:28 - Jul 6 with 932 views
Appreciate the name Micheal O’ Muircheartaigh will not be a name anyone outside Ireland will likely be familiar with. But an absolute legend of a GAA commentator, who sadly passed away last year. His predecessor Micheal O’ Hehir was another legendary GAA commentator. Now we have Marty Morrissey who is a legend in his own mind. As a kid/ young adult listening to BBC Radio when they only commentated on the second half of match’s and it still took TWO commentators to do 22.5 minutes each, my favourites were Peter Jones and later Alan Greene
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Greatest Sporting Commentators on 00:40 - Jul 6 with 917 views
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