John Walker Motson was an English football commentator. He was born on 10 July 1945 in Salford, Lancashire, where his father was a Methodist minister and sadly died today, 23rd February 2023.
He began working with BBC in 1971 as a football commentator. 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 in the mid-1990s. He began wearing his trademark sheepskin coat in December 1990, when he “battled horizontal sleet showers ahead of Wycombe Wanderers’ FA Cup tie with Peterborough United”.
Who are John Motson’s siblings?
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In 2008, Motson announced his retirement from live television commentary. However, he continued to cover games for Match of the Day highlights and appeared on BBC Radio 5 Live as well as commentating on CBeebies’ Footy Pups. In September 2017, he announced his full retirement from BBC commentary, having commentated on 10 FIFA World Cups, 10 UEFA European Championships, and 29 FA Cup finals. In July 2018, he announced he was returning from retirement to work for Talksport.
He was enrolled in his education at Culford School, near Bury St Edmunds. Culford is a public school where football was generally frowned upon at that time. Instead, cricket, rugby union, and field hockey were the main sports for pupils.
Motson’s career began as a newspaper reporter in 1963, at Chipping Barnet. Also, he worked for the Sheffield Morning Telegraph where he first covered football in 1967 and 1968.
