The end of this.
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Giving a dishonourable mention to Marty Morrissey who took my favourite sporting event of all time, the 2018 Hurling All Ireland, and made it cringy as fuck to watch back.
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A shot!! A GOAL!! A goal!! A goal for Offaly!! There was a goal in it!!
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Take your pick from Simon Holt.
2007 GC - “Kauto Star STEALS THE SHOW… and wins the Gold Cup”
2009 GC - “He’s made mistakes in the past, BUT NOT TODAY”
2004 Christmas Hurdle, 2005 Champion Chase
2012 World Hurdle - “And Big Bucks must battle like he’s never fought before”
2011 - Betfair Chase, 2011 King George
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Honorable mention for sprint sacre the impossible dream
Theres too many. 2011 Champion Hurdle.
It wasn’t Simon Holt but theres a great commentary on Frankels Juddmonte
Not sport x 5.
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Any commentary by mal keavney.
Ted Lowe’s commentary on the final stages of the 1985 final is amazing
Every word seemed to be crafted perfectly
The game of kings.
When Davis missed that cut on the black to set up the winning shot for Taylor, there was nothing else that needed to be said except “No”
The tone of faint incredulity with which Lowe said it made it
The art of saying the bare minimum, which says more than any further words could, at its absolute best
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A bit like Clive Tyldsley when Stevie G pulled one back in Instanbul*.
‘Hello!’
*I do not mean to directly compare the commentating abilities of Tyldsley and Lowe.
Please just keep it to commentaries lads.
RIP Pat McAulife
‘He scores a goal!!’ ‘He. Has. Scored. A. Goal’.
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Tyldesley did a couple of interviews on Off The Ball over the last year in which he came across quite well
I don’t think he’s a brilliant commentator or anything but he is competent and you’d at least know his voice, which cannot be said of many commentators these days
I preferred George Hamilton’s commentary of the 1999 Champions League final to his
One Tyldesley moment which does stick out in my mind was during a Cameroon v Sweden World Cup game in 1994 for BBC
It was in Pasadena
Tyldesley said something like when he was at the stadium before the match, he saw the Cameroon kit being delivered - they had kit problems at that World Cup, which led to them having to write their names and numbers in marker for a later match, the kit had come straight from the airport just in time
“I asked, what weird, wonderful and exotic place has that come from? I was told…Huddersfield”
I love that commentary.
An unknown commentator more known as a match reporter commentating on a provincial club match in winter. And yet it sounds like the All Ireland final.
Magic.
Ah, wonderful.
Relentless remorseless.
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Fred Cogleys wonderful description of an Ireland try in Murrayfield, where he gets so excited he scream MCRINGLAND as Trevor goes over in the corner
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