The Voice of Football

[Pete3206]

[frankmosswasmyuncle]

Results at 5pm on Saturday have never sounded quite right since he retired.

RIP

[dave shelley]

A sad day for football fans with radios.

Exactly.  Another who will be sadly missed.

[CT]

Results at 5pm on Saturday have never sounded quite right since he retired.

Exactly right.

RIP

[Villan For Life]

The tone and intonation in his voice was lovely. He was football's John Arlott.

RIP.

[TopDeck113]

...but first the classified football results read by James Alexander Gordon.

I still haven't got over the fact that those words no longer headline Sports Report.  RIP

[E I Adio]

The tone and intonation in his voice was lovely. He was football's John Arlott.

RIP.

It was perfectly possible to immediately discover whether a team had won drawn or lost a game even before he read the actual score, just by his intonation during the reading of a team's name.

Marvellous. Just remembering his voice conjours up so many memories.

[Steve kirk]

What a wonderful rich voice he had, RIP

[PeterWithesShin]

He was a paid up member of the small elite of sports broadcasters along with Murray Walker, John Arlott, Peter O'Sullevan (sp?) David Coleman and Henry Longhurst who actually defined the job they did.   He also wrote his own epitaph that long ago Saturday afternoon when he read perfectly "East Fife 4 Forfar 5".   Thank you JAG.

I thought Ronnie Barker made that up. He certainly used it in a sketch.

It was made up. By Eric Morecambe.

[tomd2103]

...but first the classified football results read by James Alexander Gordon.

I still haven't got over the fact that those words no longer headline Sports Report.  RIP

That's the line that will always stick with me.  That and trying to guess the second bit of the scoreline from the inflection in his voice.   

[rob_bridge]

RIP.

When I got a tspe recorder for my 8th birthday I used to tape the results and try to cpy the way he read them out.

[London Villan]

With all the pre match tributes we have for various people it would be very fitting to have one for him pre match on Saturday across the country.

[Percy McCarthy]

He was a paid up member of the small elite of sports broadcasters along with Murray Walker, John Arlott, Peter O'Sullevan (sp?) David Coleman and Henry Longhurst who actually defined the job they did.   He also wrote his own epitaph that long ago Saturday afternoon when he read perfectly "East Fife 4 Forfar 5".   Thank you JAG.

I thought Ronnie Barker made that up. He certainly used it in a sketch.

It was made up. By Eric Morecambe.

I think Eric saw it first on the Two Ronnies. It was one of Barker's solo word-play things, in which he explained that, to combat inflation, the Government had ordered one to be added to every number. Cue much double-entendre based hilarity. He said the famous scoreline once, then when he re-capped the football scores, he read it again as East Six five, Fivefar six.

[Weedy]

"...dividend forecast: very good. Telegram claims are required for..."

[Tony Erdington]

Respect