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This is a list of media commentators and writers in the United Kingdom on the sport of Association football. A number of football players have had a second career as writers or commentators. However, many commentators never played the game at a professional level such as Dale Rowlinson and Gaz Mallachan, yet they have gone on to become famous names associated with the game.
BBC Sports Team of the Year: 1; 1967 [61] France Football European Team of the Year: 1; 1970 [62] SPFA Special Merit Award: 1; 1992 (awarded to Lisbon Lions) [63] FIFA Fair Play Award: 1; 2003 (awarded to fans of Celtic FC) [64] UEFA Fair Play Award: 1; 2003 (awarded to fans of Celtic FC) [65] FIFA Fan Award: 1; 2017 (awarded to fans of Celtic ...
Sports Report is one of the longest-running programmes on British radio, and is the world's longest-running sports radio programme. It started on 3 January 1948, and has always been broadcast from 17:00 on Saturday evenings during the football season, for most of its history featuring two readings of the classified football results, although the length of the programme has varied in more ...
Peter Jones (7 February 1930 – 2 April 1990) was a Welsh broadcaster, best known as a sports commentator on BBC radio in the United Kingdom, although many of his commentaries were also broadcast internationally on the BBC World Service. He frequently worked alongside Maurice Edelston, Bryon Butler, Alan Parry and, latterly, Alan Green and ...
The English football champions are the winners of the top level league in English men's football, which since the 1992–93 season has been called the Premier League. Following the codification of professional football by the Football Association in 1885, [ 1 ] the Football League was established in 1888, after meetings initiated by Aston Villa director William McGregor . [ 2 ]
Len Martin. Leonard Martin (17 April 1919 – 21 August 1995) was an Australian results reader. He was known in the UK for reading out the football results, associated football pools statistics and horse-racing results on the BBC's Saturday afternoon sports programme, Grandstand . Martin was born in Australia where he began his broadcasting career.
In 2018 she presented coverage of the 2018 FIFA World Cup for Optus Sport, [4] and in 2019 presented the BBC's coverage of the 2019 FIFA Women's World Cup. [ 3 ] [ 5 ] Following the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic , which required many activities, including football, to cease for a while, she was part of the reporting team to cover one of the first matches to be played when football was allowed ...
BBC Sport is the sports division of the BBC, providing national sports coverage for BBC television, radio and online. The BBC holds the television and radio UK broadcasting rights to several sports, broadcasting the sport live or alongside flagship analysis programmes such as Match of the Day , Test Match Special , Ski Sunday and Today at Wimbledon .