"The Voice" of football

[Mad Eyed Screamer]

The thing is, Murray Walker was the one and only commentator on motor racing as it was only on one channel.
Football was on two channels - one of which had regional commentators so there was no one "authoritative" voice that the country relied on.

 

[Corky]

Elton Welsby

 

[Manx Blue]

Elton Welsby

...and I'll raise you the now late, Tony Gubba

 

[Corky]

...and I'll raise you the now late, Tony Gubba

Raise you Rob Mccaffrey's shoulder pads

 

[Manx Blue]

Raise you Rob Mccaffrey's shoulder pads

...and 'tache?

 

[Aba452]

The difference with people then was that they were first and foremost journalists.

FWIW I always thought moston was tiresome and full of cliches. Davies was far superior and could judge the emotion perfectly.

These days you've literally got fanzine writers like mitten passed off as journalists. Not much difference tbf with the WhatsApp wankers.

Hopefully there will be a new wave of sports journos who aren't agenda driven red appeasing arse kickers. They will be more interested in reporting facts than passing off prejudice as insight.

We can but hope.

 

[Trevor Morley's Tache]

The bloke who did the 'Oh No!!!' and 'It's a goal!!!' jingle off the radio was the voice of football in my yoof.

 

[Aba452]

James H Reeve?

 

[Trevor Morley's Tache]

James H Reeve?

It might have been.

I used to listen to James' late night show on 1152AM, back when we barely had 4 channels on TV.

 

[ctidcarl]

Stuart Hall

In all fairness, Stuart Hall (whilst not "the voice" of football IMHO) did a decent job when going "around the grounds" or half time/full time analysis

He always painted a picture with words that seemed to go above and beyond what was required (just tell us the score, who scored and was it a decent match!!)

So, a good voice of football, just a shame he led his life the way he did