Unlike our Des, a bit of a prickly character off camera apparently. Bloody great commentator though, whatever the sport.
Never any joy in the death of anyone, but does his death really warrant being the lead story on the BBC website?
Des is not too well these days either.
He looks a lot better now, than he did a few months ago.Des is not too well these days either.
Many memories of David Coleman, particularly recall his commentary on Sally Gunnell's gold medal at the Barcelona Olympics - 'Gunnell going for gold...and Gunnell gets the gold' and on Seb Coe winning the 1500m gold at the LA Olympics. From a football point of view, the 'goals pay the rent' line from the 1974 FA Cup final was a classic and I also recall the clip from the 1962 World Cup about the 'most disgusting, despicable match ever'. From a journalistic point of view, he was particularly impressive reporting the aftermath of the atrocities at the Munich Olympics. But for me as someone growing up in the late 1980s/early 1990s, I remember him most for 'A Question of Sport' when that show was in its heyday. You got the impression he knew most of the answers to the questions he was reading out and he seemed to take great delight when Botham or Beaumont got one of their 'home' questions wrong.