Favourite Commentator?

For me Brian Moore followed by Martin Tyler I think.

Apologies for any obvious ones I have missed. I'm not up-to-date with newer ones plus it only allows 15 options. Select up to two nominations.

Obviously Cooper and Whitey are the best but that's obvious.

 

Kenneth Wolstenholme streets above any of these.

Martin Tyler and Motty should be excluded because neither of them ever had any time for us.

 

Definitely Brian moore, i remember cup final day when i was a kid, grandstand on the bbc, but always turned over to itv for moores commentary, legend...

 

I used to like Kenneth Wolstenhome. Showing my age now.

 

No Matt Bailey ?

 

Barry Davies

"Look at his face,just look at his face"

"And where were the Germans? And quite frankly who cares?"

"Is Gascoigne going to have a crack? He is you know......"

"Ooh i say"

 

Yes, Wolstenholme was one of the names that unfortunately got cut due to the fifteen option limit. Definitely a style from another era.

 

Martin Tyler gets my vote. Plus before a match starts he reminds us that it's not pre recorded just incase we didn't know

 

I meant Matt Bailey when I wrote Cooper. I'm getting old.

 

For one liners, can't look any further than Kenneth Wolstenholme's "They think it's all over, it is now!"

Generally, I think Brian Moore is about the best.

Then there's Matt Bailey on the Barnsley commentary

 

Barry Davies for me.

 

With you mate.

His commentary of our cup tie against Man City back in 81/82 was a delight.

 

Andy Gray, take a boo son

 

Close run thing between Tyldesley or Davies. I've gone for the former.

Most I don't mind, but the one I always used to dislike listening to was Brian Moore. Not sure why to be honest.

 

David Coleman

 

Barry Davies for me too...followed closely by R Matt.

 

I loved his commentary on MOTD too for our first game in the Prem against West Ham. When Redfearn scored, Davies kind of just yelled 'Ohhhhhhh....' as if he was almost half celebrating. I think he was genuinely caught up in the romance of the moment of a small town club reaching the big time and taking the lead in their first game !

 

Actually, I change my mind and say Barry Davies. Just because he was so versatile and commentated on other sports too and always showed class doing so.

Though if we're talking commentators of any sport, Richie Benaud takes some topping.

 

Barry Davies without any doubt for me. I know he's quoted for some of his famous lines such as the Maradona goal in Mexico 86 ("You have to say that's magnificent") and Trevor Aylott's "That's a really super goal" v Man City, but there's a comment from him during the first replay between us and Sheff Utd in the FA Cup back in 1990 that still makes me laugh. It described a tussle between, I think, David Barnes, John Gannon and our own Steve Cooper as follows:

"Quite extraordinary. I mean they're pushing and shoving and swinging and everything else. The ball was quite irrelevant."

 

Keith Macklin