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For football and for the 70s/80s I give you the incomparable radio commentator Peter Jones. He along with fellow commentator Bryon Butler made you feel like you were at the game. No endless forcing of their own opinions like that Irish bloke or moving off from the action. Just passionate commentary. You got a real sense of the game. They sometimes had an ex-pro chipping in like Denis Law, but they truly commentated. Sadly missed.
In other sports, Cricket, Richie Benaud - scrupulously objective, Tennis, John McEnroe, never wastes words and lastly Murray Walker. He was just pure entertainment.
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Favourite Sports Commentator on 11:53 - Mar 14 with 1407 views
Favourite Sports Commentator on 11:44 - Mar 14 by Churchman
For football and for the 70s/80s I give you the incomparable radio commentator Peter Jones. He along with fellow commentator Bryon Butler made you feel like you were at the game. No endless forcing of their own opinions like that Irish bloke or moving off from the action. Just passionate commentary. You got a real sense of the game. They sometimes had an ex-pro chipping in like Denis Law, but they truly commentated. Sadly missed.
In other sports, Cricket, Richie Benaud - scrupulously objective, Tennis, John McEnroe, never wastes words and lastly Murray Walker. He was just pure entertainment.
Favourite Sports Commentator on 11:53 - Mar 14 by Pendejo
Jones/Butler = Cup Final 78
For that alone leg-ends
I wish I’d heard it but I was in a certain place in north London that day; lucky me. I did hear them doing the EUFA Cup AZ Alkmaar second leg game and I enjoyed that, through the excruciating tension.
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Favourite Sports Commentator on 12:03 - Mar 14 with 1393 views
Favourite Sports Commentator on 11:57 - Mar 14 by Churchman
I wish I’d heard it but I was in a certain place in north London that day; lucky me. I did hear them doing the EUFA Cup AZ Alkmaar second leg game and I enjoyed that, through the excruciating tension.
BBC and Orwell released their full commentaries on vinyl, both of which I borrowed from Ipswich library many decades ago.
On some mix tapes I used to have the move from Cooper to goal play between songs, sometimes at regular speed, some speeded up. Orwell at 45Rom once goal scored is magnificent.
Favourite Sports Commentator on 12:03 - Mar 14 by Pendejo
BBC and Orwell released their full commentaries on vinyl, both of which I borrowed from Ipswich library many decades ago.
On some mix tapes I used to have the move from Cooper to goal play between songs, sometimes at regular speed, some speeded up. Orwell at 45Rom once goal scored is magnificent.
'Bobby's Dazzlers' is the BBC commentary.
'We Won The Cup' is the Radio Orwell one.
Guess what, I have got both of them.
edit-regarding OP I think there have been loads of very good cricket commentators but probably John Arlott and Richie Benaud at the head of the list.
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Favourite Sports Commentator on 12:28 - Mar 14 with 1379 views
Alan Green on Radio 5 - great knowledge, said it as he saw it, and not afraid to give his opinion. Made every match entertaining , however dull it was!
GRAMPS
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Favourite Sports Commentator on 16:32 - Mar 14 with 1268 views
Favourite Sports Commentator on 15:54 - Mar 14 by gramps
Alan Green on Radio 5 - great knowledge, said it as he saw it, and not afraid to give his opinion. Made every match entertaining , however dull it was!
And boy would he let you know that he thought it was a dull match.
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Favourite Sports Commentator on 16:39 - Mar 14 with 1264 views
Favourite Sports Commentator on 15:54 - Mar 14 by gramps
Alan Green on Radio 5 - great knowledge, said it as he saw it, and not afraid to give his opinion. Made every match entertaining , however dull it was!
Can't stand him, or Clive Tyldsley (sp?) - but hey, each to their own!
Have to add this man to my list for his "Reuser - Premiership" - prob my fav 2 words of commentary ever -
As an #itfc fan, this commentary has a special place in my heart. “REUSER... PREMIERSHIP!†https://t.co/gILqlYy77r
Favourite Sports Commentator on 10:48 - Mar 14 by Radlett_blue
I thought Motson was execrable - over excited, often didn't know what had happened, loved quoting irrelevant statistics & shoe-horned in his rehearsed corny one liners. Johnson, McEnroe & Shriver were all excellent summarisers, but the grand daddy of them all in tennis is Frew McMillan. Aged 78, regularly used by Eurosport & still sharp as a tack. Never says too much, but always on point, relevant & often something the casual viewer won't have noticed.
Agreed on Motson, one of the worst verbal diarrhea commentators.
Also, I'll never forgive his MotD commentary in 1993 when we beat Manure at home at he went on and on about them as potential champions (they hadn't won anything for some years), nothing about the possibility that we could repeat what we did in 61/61. Motson went to school in Burt St Edmunds and followed Town then.
Favourite Sports Commentator on 10:07 - Mar 14 by WeWereZombies
John Motson, without a doubt, not least because I have seen him on his way to the upper reaches of the Britannia stand.
I have no interest in horse racing but on the few occasions I saw Brough Scott making his direct to camera and unadorned commentary he was serving the sport and the viewers better than other commentators I noticed.
I think a special mention should be made for the BBC's knack of finding someone who is more than a pundit but not quite a commentator, but who often sits next to the commentator. I am thinking of John McEnroe and Pam Shriver in tennis and Michael Johnson in athletics particularly.
Good shout for McEnroe. Disliked him when he was playing (melodramatic turd) but completely changed my mind as a co-commentator. Incredibly insightful, pitches in at the right moments and, above all, not afraid to speak his mind.
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Favourite Sports Commentator on 16:54 - Mar 14 with 1253 views
Favourite Sports Commentator on 10:37 - Mar 14 by BlueForYou
Cricket - Jonathan Agnew Football - Motters Rugby Union - Myles Harrison Athletics - David Coleman NFL - Chris Collingsworth Cycling - David Harmon Golf - Andrew Coltart F1 - Murray Walker Anchor man/All rounder - Jim Nantz
Down voted you for Miles Harrison, he's awful, can't stop taking about all sorts of irrelevant stuff and has an awful wining nasal voice. He should remember Richie Benaud's Golden Rule: When you've got nothing to say, say nothing. One of the worst of today's commentators, particularly as he's on so much.
But then at the bottom of the barrel we find Martin Gillingham. Whoever told him he could be a sports commentator?
Favourite Sports Commentator on 11:13 - Mar 14 by You_Bloo_Right
Not my favourite sports commentator by any means but as Barry Davies, John Arlott, Richie Benaud and Harry Carpenter have all had a mention I give you Sid Waddell.
"When Alexander of Macedonia was 33, he cried salt tears because there were no more worlds to conquer..... Bristow's only 27."
"If we'd had Phil Taylor at Hastings against the Normans, they'd have gone home."
"The atmosphere is a cross between the Munich Beer Festival and the Coliseum when the Christians were on the menu."
add to that:
"the latest comeback since Lazarus rose from the dead!" (can't remember who he was talking about)
and
"Jocky Wilson, warra n'athlete..."
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Favourite Sports Commentator on 17:00 - Mar 14 with 1243 views
Favourite Sports Commentator on 10:22 - Mar 14 by Guthrum
I enjoyed Mitchell Johnson when they had him summarising, came across very well.
Yes, I enjoyed his commentary too. The only problem I had was that one minute it would be coming out of my left hand speaker, the next it be the right, that Mitchell Johnson; his commentary sounded not quite right.
# WE ARE STEALING THE FUTURE FROM OUR CHILDREN --- WE MUST CHANGE COURSE #
Favourite Sports Commentator on 11:44 - Mar 14 by Churchman
For football and for the 70s/80s I give you the incomparable radio commentator Peter Jones. He along with fellow commentator Bryon Butler made you feel like you were at the game. No endless forcing of their own opinions like that Irish bloke or moving off from the action. Just passionate commentary. You got a real sense of the game. They sometimes had an ex-pro chipping in like Denis Law, but they truly commentated. Sadly missed.
In other sports, Cricket, Richie Benaud - scrupulously objective, Tennis, John McEnroe, never wastes words and lastly Murray Walker. He was just pure entertainment.
...and the theme tune. Simply brilliant. Especially for midweek European games.
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