Crawley Dingo
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Best Sports Commentator Ever
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aftershavedave
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Brian Moore every time
- Apr 5, 2014
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Cliff Morgan. Goosebumps.
Only saw one sending off offences in that clip. That was calm for the 70s. Rugby was savage back then.
If you want to see some thuggery that would make PPF wince, Llanelli v All Blacks 1972.
Weststander
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All Blacks trying to take heads off! And the clip didn’t even include old school rucks and scrums.
- Apr 5, 2014
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They were the Leeds of rugby back then. Only 10 x worse. Billy Bremner would have been a pansy.
Nowadays, New Zealand are the shiny example of sportsmanship.
Weststander
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Funny you should mention PPF. We always laughed that a ‘brave’ football thug would melt if they contemplated taking a swing at the likes of Buck Shelford or Graham Price, for example.
The Mole
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for me
Cricket - Richie Benaud (TV) - John Arlott (radio)
Rugby - Bill McLaren - although I loved the Eddie Butler/Brian Moore combination
Football - Peter Jones
Athletics _ really like Michael Johnson as a pundit
Golf - has to be Alan Partridge
Cricket - Richie Benaud (TV) - John Arlott (radio)
Rugby - Bill McLaren - although I loved the Eddie Butler/Brian Moore combination
Football - Peter Jones
Athletics _ really like Michael Johnson as a pundit
Golf - has to be Alan Partridge
Alan Green.
The only commentator who would draw me into a game I didn't care about.
He may be a prick in real life, but on the radio, he was liquid football.
The only commentator who would draw me into a game I didn't care about.
He may be a prick in real life, but on the radio, he was liquid football.
Weststander
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The last commentator who called out stuff such as Pulis thuggery or Fergie’s bullying of everyone. Their little cabal including Allardyce didn’t like his honesty.
And not afraid to call out a game as boring, in contrast to the fake jeopardy cooked up by the schoolboy hypesters trying to sell their brilliant coverage of the most exciting spectacle on the planet (f*** off).
Weststander
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I remember something like a Monday night PL game Bolton or Stoke at home. Allan Green said this is awful fare. Went down like a lead balloon with a thuggish English manager who decided to hate Green forever.
Matterface or Darren Fletcher would’ve bullsh1ted us to keep their $$$$ jobs.
Weststander
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I loved the old Rugby Special on BBC2 Sunday’s. The brilliant Ian Robertson was part of the team.
Swimboy64
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- Oct 19, 2022
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Yes me too I forgot him
Great days
Mackenzie
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I’m not a fan of F1 these days, I used to enjoy watching Prost, Mansell and Senna, that era, but I think Murray Walker had the perfect voice for the sport, fast and high octane like the cars.
worthingseagull123
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- May 5, 2012
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John Motson.
While the whole "lets see who can build the fastest car and then drive around in circles"-thing will never really appeal to me, I have to say that Walker really pulled me in when I watched a couple of historical competitions not long ago. Could see why he is considered a legend.
Murray Walker’s life was absolutely fascinating.
His world wide fame comes from F1 commentary. But he didn’t become the BBC F1 full time commentator until he was 55 in ‘78. He’d done a few F1 commentaries before this but it’s extraordinary that arguably his greatest work started at an age your average banker looks to retire (having achieved less than 0.1% of what Murray did in his life).
Red Squirrel
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My favourite commentator was David Vine. Yes, he was better known as a sports anchor for snooker and ski sunday etc but he used to commentate on the weightlifting at the olympics .He really painted a scene of glory and tragedy as the weightlifters entered the stage, his words turned them into matadors.