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Children. 1. John Walker Motson OBE (10 July 1945 – 23 February 2023) was an English football commentator. Beginning as a television commentator with the BBC in 1971, he commentated on over 2000 games on television and radio. From the late 1970s to 2008, Motson was the dominant football commentary figure at the BBC, apart from a brief spell ...
Feb 23, 2023 · The son of a Methodist minster, Motson was born in Salford in 1945 and grew up in Lewisham, south-east London. He was sent to boarding school at Culford near Bury St Edmunds in Suffolk, and ...
Feb 26, 2023 · Motson himself was born in Salford in 1945, weeks after victory over Hitler. He grew up mostly in London, where his father was a football-mad Methodist minister with a famed voice who preached in ...
Feb 23, 2023 · Legendary commentator John Motson, who had an illustrious 50-year career with the BBC, has died aged 77. Motson covered 10 World Cups, 10 European Championships and 29 FA Cup finals for BBC Sport ...
Feb 23, 2023 · 23 February 2023. PA Media. John Motson, who had a 50-year career with the BBC, lived in Hertfordshire. The landlord at the pub where John Motson was a regular has paid tribute to the "down-to ...
23 February 2023. PA Media. John Motson, who had a 50-year career with the BBC, lived in Hertfordshire. The landlord at the pub where John Motson was a regular has paid tribute to the "down-to ...
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Feb 23, 2023 · Britain’s football commentator John Motson follows a match, May 13, 2018. Motson has died at the age of 77. He was one of the most well-known voices in British sport for 50 years.
