Commentators and Journalists memories

Nick Szczepanik: Brian Horton - my favourite player

A bargain signing who was much more than just a hard tackler

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Miles Harrison: a student interview with Brian Clough

He knew exactly what he was doing when he didn't make it easy

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Alyson Rudd: 2005 Champions League Final

Liverpool v. A.C. Milan - watched as a fan, not a Times reporter

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Gordon Farquhar: 1998 World Cup, an official correspondent unofficially gets into the Final

My tournament of reporting on hooliganism, press conferences and missed interviews ends with me watching France v. Brazil with an ice-cream seller

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Garry Richardson: how I got into journalism after two failed Trials

Working with Jimmy Greaves, Tommy Docherty, Denis Law, George Best, Frank Bruno and two Presidents, Mandela and Clinton

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Richard Prescott: Training with the early 90s West Ham

This meant playing against Julian Dicks

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From the collection of one of our Sporting Memories Patrons

Spot the Commentator. Who do you recognise? We think it was taken at a Mail or Mail on Sunday feature in the late 90s on commentators

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Alan Parry: a football commentator tries cricket

And becomes a "football commentator and failed cricketer", even with the help of Christopher Martin-Jenkins

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Alan Biggs: memories of reporting on Sheffield United

Dave Bassett and Tony Currie

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Alan Biggs: memories of reporting on Sheffield Wednesday

Encounters with Len Ashurst Jack Charlton and Terry Curran

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Alan Biggs: my first match and other childhood memories

Other sporting interests and how I got into journalism

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Duncan Jones: David Coleman, David Oates and Cliff Morgan

Three commentators who set the standard

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Duncan Jones: Hugh Johns and "Star Soccer"

And other memories of 70s Midlands football

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Duncan Jones: 19070s radio commentators

Bryon Butler, Peter Jones, Larry Canning and the football memories they gave me

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Damon Green: my first matches

My boyhood matchday experiences

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Tony Incenzo: 1993, Albania v. England

A World Cup Qualifying hotel experience

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Arthur Montford: interviewing George Best

A polite and helpful man who remembered his time at Hibs

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Paul Hughes: On the right track now, thanks to my Dad

He didn't really like the game, but knew I wasn't good enough and made me realise that journalism was the way to go

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Mike Aitken: 1983 European Cup Winners Cup win

The run to the Final, the Final and my lapse of journalistic objectivity

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Douglas Alexander: 1982 World Cup Finals

Childhood and family memories of my favourite World Cup

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Patrick Barclay: Dundee and Alan Gilzean v. Cologne, 1962/1963 European Cup

With the League Title in 1961/1962, part of the (Bob) Shankly Years

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Rodger Baillie: 1967 European Cup Final, Celtic v. Inter Milan

Bill Shankly in the dressing room and a lost age of access for journalists, the likelihood of a Rangers tribute and of Scottish chances in the competition

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Glenn Gibbons: 1969, Benfica v. Celtic, European Cup

Last minute confusion, extra time and the toss of a coin make for a stressful first overseas assignment

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