- 1. John Motson tries to be a DJ ...
- (Miscellaneous)
- SCultEnoQ8k
- Created on 07 February 2013
- 2. Motson builds up the Cup
- (TV watch)
- Cameron Carter explains that although we all know and love the FA Cup, John Motson can always be on hand to remind us of this Spring is a time when wet-nosed lambs and weak young sitcoms stumble into ...
- Created on 14 July 2006
- 3. Adventures In The Golden Age by Archie Macpherson
- (International )
- ... tales to emerge from various Scotland camps. He saw drunken escapades, once while sitting have a beer with John Motson. “Down the short flight of stairs leading into the well of the bar came the Scottish ...
- Created on 05 October 2018
- 4. Remembering Charles Buchan’s Football Monthly – the pioneering football magazine
- (Stories)
- ... contributors were a rakish bunch. Staffmen John Thompson and Joe Sarl were ex-Daily Mirror. Leslie Yates was a “para man” – that is, he served up an endless diet of short paragraphs on players and managers. ...
- Created on 22 January 2018
- 5. Yesterday’s men that embraced Tomorrow’s World – when Leatherhead hit the big time
- (Stories)
- ... on the back of Fletch’s copy of the Sun in Porridge later that year. Match of the Day turned up at Filbert Street and it was difficult to judge whether or not John Motson was more excited about the goals ...
- Created on 06 November 2017
- 6. WSC 369 out now
- (Stories)
- ... to John Motson | Football’s media revolution | Fallout from Arsenal v Cologne | Hero for a day in the FA Cup | Stress at Chesterfield | Harry Redknapp bows out | Why players got bigger | Southampton’s ...
- Created on 03 October 2017
- 7. It’s time to ditch the clone army of commentators and hear something new
- (Stories)
- Embed from Getty Images With John Motson soon to retire, the age of distinctive commentators’ voices has ended. In their place are a group of estate agentesque safe choices 6 September ~ Having ...
- Created on 06 September 2017
- 8. Extra time made redundant by more TV-friendly formats
- (Stories)
- ... played – in any competition. I almost crashed. Mario Kempes tangoing through Dutch defenders and Argentinian confetti in the 1978 World Cup final – the first extra-time goal I remember. John Motson, ...
- Created on 22 August 2016
- 9. Emotions of watching Euro 2016 from a Glasgow sofa
- (Stories)
- ... n the 1980 final; John Motson’s falsetto during BBC highlights of France’s epic 1984 semi-final against Portugal; Scotland brutally besieging Germany in Norrkoping but losing 2-0 to depart Euro 92; ten-m ...
- Created on 04 July 2016
- 10. The Matador
- (Players)
- ... eulogised by John Motson on a relatively rare Match of the Day appearance in 1975. But a relative lack of such exposure meant Currie was constantly overlooked. His heart, he admits, was always at Bramall ...
- Created on 07 March 2016
- 11. From Ricky Villa To Dave Beasant
- (General)
- ... blacking up to greet John Barnes at the Watford team hotel in 1984 was ever considered appropriate. Yes, we’ve all seen Ricky Villa’s goal and Gordon Smith’s miss but Eastley still manages to maintain ...
- Created on 03 August 2015
- 12. Are You Watching The Match Tonight?
- (General)
- ... t. Efforts by John Motson, Jeff Stelling and Barry Davies come to mind. To give Brian Barwick his due, this is an intentionally lightweight account for the less well-informed and written in a matey journal ...
- Created on 06 November 2013
- 13. Weekly Howl 08-02-13
- (2013)
- ... 've seen John Motson singing You Can Call Me Al, you'll never forget it." SCultEnoQ8k --- from Dave Wallace "During the recent Reading v Chelsea game Jonathan Pearce described Chelsea opening the s ...
- Created on 13 February 2013
- 14. Weekly Howl 05-10-12
- (2012)
- ... but in a nice way, with a passing game. Cameron Carter --- Sing along – and if you don't know all the words just clap your hands. F39vAn3veHE --- from Paul Hanson "John Motson better on the m ...
- Created on 10 October 2012
- 15. Little wonders
- (International football)
- ... still there but key players such as Arie Haan, Ruud Krol and Johnny Rep were all missing, and their replacements – including a young Martin Jol – were not in the same class. Their cause wasn't helped by ...
- Created on 21 October 2011
- 16. Weekly Howl 20-05-11
- (2011)
- ... of the match had been accompanied invariably by John Motson's sage dictum 'This is football, not boxing' (to which Andy Gray would unfailingly reply 'When you talk about the hard men of ...
- Created on 24 May 2011
- 17. Letters, WSC 289
- (Readers' letters)
- ... books. On page 13 of his account of Brighton's first season in Division One (1979-80), John Vinnicombe recounts the odds offered on the Seagulls getting a result against Arsenal in their opening matc ...
- Created on 21 February 2011
- 18. Football Focus: behind the scenes
- (TV watch)
- ... How much further can they take this creaking concept? Perhaps later in the season Walker will conspiratorially beckon a camera into John Motson’s pre-match shower, or wave an endoscope up through Avram ...
- Created on 21 October 2010
- 19. Weekly Howl 01-10-10
- (2010)
- ... the first referee to have let Stevie G's on-field thuggishness go half-punished. John Motson then trotted out the party line on Radio 5 about the ref's 'dilemma' over whether to send off ...
- Created on 07 October 2010
- 20. World Cup 2010 TV diary – Knockout stages
- (World Cup 2010)
- ... this morning,” says Mark Lawrenson – as Miroslav Klose chases down a long punt which bamboozles John Terry and then fends off Matthew Upson to score. Wayne Rooney, pink and furious, skies a shot. “Hollywood,” ...
- Created on 21 August 2010
