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As a young sports journalist, I met Motty at an England get-together press day at Bisham Abbey in the 70s. Made time to talk to me with career tips and info. Lovely man and a worthy successor to David Coleman and his generation. RIP Motty.
Been thinking that with this, and the departure of Dickie Davies a few days again, by my reckoning the only voices left that I would associate with sports coverage in my formative years in the eighties are Barry Davies and Des Lynam
Brian Moore, Peter Alliss, Richie Benaud, Peter O'Sullevan, Dan Maskell, Ted Lowe, Eddie Waring, Sid Waddell, Frank Bough, Murray Walker, and God knows how many others, all gone.
Been thinking that with this, and the departure of Dickie Davies a few days again, by my reckoning the only voices left that I would associate with sports coverage in my formative years in the eighties are Barry Davies and Des Lynam
Brian Moore, Peter Alliss, Richie Benaud, Peter O'Sullevan, Dan Maskell, Ted Lowe, Eddie Waring, Sid Waddell, Frank Bough, Murray Walker, and God knows how many others, all gone.
Ouch, that list of those who have gone is scary when you put them altogether. Some amazing personalities there.
RIP Motty - sometimes we didn't know what we had when we are left with the likes of Matterface and co
Been thinking that with this, and the departure of Dickie Davies a few days again, by my reckoning the only voices left that I would associate with sports coverage in my formative years in the eighties are Barry Davies and Des Lynam
Brian Moore, Peter Alliss, Richie Benaud, Peter O'Sullevan, Dan Maskell, Ted Lowe, Eddie Waring, Sid Waddell, Frank Bough, Murray Walker, and God knows how many others, all gone.
Really sad news, I would add Jimmy Armfield to your list of iconic eighties voices. He and Motty are my recollections of Sir Bob's assaults on Europe via a little white earpiece and a transistor radio by the bed.
It's 106 miles to Portman Road, we've got a full tank of gas, half a round of Port Salut, it's dark... and we're wearing blue tinted sunglasses.
Really sad news, I would add Jimmy Armfield to your list of iconic eighties voices. He and Motty are my recollections of Sir Bob's assaults on Europe via a little white earpiece and a transistor radio by the bed.
Oh yes, the old Sport on 2 crowd - Peter Jones, Bryon Butler, and, er, I suppose there was Stuart Hall as well, but, well, you know...
Been thinking that with this, and the departure of Dickie Davies a few days again, by my reckoning the only voices left that I would associate with sports coverage in my formative years in the eighties are Barry Davies and Des Lynam
Brian Moore, Peter Alliss, Richie Benaud, Peter O'Sullevan, Dan Maskell, Ted Lowe, Eddie Waring, Sid Waddell, Frank Bough, Murray Walker, and God knows how many others, all gone.
Dave Lanning (darts and speedway) and Peter O'Sullevan (Racing) to name two more.
I met John Motson at the Daily Express 5 -a-side in London https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Five-a-Sides_(England) Can't remember if it was the year we won but we had a good chat, we asked him if he was a Town fan - he smiled and said he had to be impartial :) He'll be missed.
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Feels like the end of an era on 15:03 - Feb 23 with 1046 views
To clarify: The Hereford-Newcastle match was not his first TV game, he’d been providing commentaries for Match of the Day for a couple of months prior to that, but it was the game which made his name.
From the Ipswich Town Match of the Day video, a handful of great Motty commentaries:
March 1977: Arsenal 1 Ipswich 4 “Brian Talbot having a marvellous match”
March 1978: Millwall 1 Ipswich 6 “Burley tries a shot…Oh! He hit it from way out, he caught the goalkeeper by surprise….”
November 1979: Ipswich 3 Southampton 1 “Ipswich are playing some crisp football”
May 1981: “They chased 3 trophies, they missed out on 2. But they’ve finished up with 1.”
May 1982: Ipswich 3 Middlesbrough 1 “If you want to call it a continental goal, Muhren won’t mind.”
October 1982: Ipswich 1 Liverpool 0 “And D’Avray. IT’S THERE!”
April 1984: Liverpool 2 Ipswich 2 “Well, we’re having a treat today.”
October 1992: Ipswich 4 Leeds 2 “Oh how about that. A Yorkshireman scores against Leeds.”
We were certainly lucky to have Motty and Barry Davis around at the same time.
Barry Davies' autobiography is a very bitter read, I'm afraid, bemoaning the fact that Motson overtook him to be the head BBC commentator, and so got the big games, FA Cup and World Cup Finals.
But then again, Barry got to do the Olympics and Wimbledon. And most importantly of all...
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