Brian Moore died on the day of the Germany vs England match in 2001, and I don't recall there being a minute's silence for him. There may or may not have been one for Kenneth Wolstenholme - I can't remember. The death of my personal favourite commentator, Hugh Johns, last summer passed almost completely unremarked upon in the press.

Of those still alive, Motson has probably got a few years left in him and Barry Davies divided opinion, so I can't imagine that there would be much national mourning over either of those two. Martin Tyler is a legend to anyone that has Sky Sports, but to the rest of us he has merely been curiously quiet since he left Granada TV at the end of the 1980s.