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1. The stray cats ...
(Clubs)
... late equaliser against West Brom because he had lost his voice. Then there’s Andy Gray. Regarded by fans young and old as one of the worst players ever to turn out for the club, Gray’s role seems to ...
Created on 14 February 2006
2. Black Boots And Football Pinks: 50 lost wonders of the beautiful game
(Fandom)
by Daniel Gray Bloomsbury Sport, £9.99 Reviewed by David Stubbs From WSC 380, November 2018 Buy the book Daniel Gray attended his first football match 30 years ago. That might seem an age but to ...
Created on 18 October 2018
3. It’s time to ditch the clone army of commentators and hear something new
(Stories)
... us today can really claim with confidence that we can tell the difference between a Matterface and a Mowbray? The ingrained, distinguishable eccentricity of commentators of yesteryear has now, sadly, been ...
Created on 06 September 2017
4. Boys Of 66
(International )
... short of pages. However, these are stories that have been raked over many times so no matter. The obscure details are more fascinating, as are the excellent array of photos, including Gordon Banks being ...
Created on 17 June 2016
5. Letters, WSC 296
(Readers' letters)
... a clue as to their whereabouts. They hail from the Newington area, which is, admittedly, fairly nearby. Pedantic maybe, but I cherish all coverage of local football and hope for it to be portrayed accurately ...
Created on 21 October 2011
6. Broadcasting the FA Cup Final
(TV watch)
... civilisation on the horizon, they were interviewing their own main host Ray Stubbs. Ray had spent pretty much the whole coverage standing behind a very thin table that he might have been able to transport ...
Created on 21 July 2011
7. From player to pundit: Robbie Savage
(TV watch)
...  [expectant pause] Mario Bibotelli!” – which not even Ray Stubbs dignified with a reaction. Having gone for the funny far too early, he progressed quickly to an outraged tone rarely heard outside late nigh ...
Created on 21 May 2011
8. Talking heads
(Miscellaneous)
... and European football, but he was live and he was exclusive. Andy Gray The Premier League and Sky landed in 1992 and, to cater to the big pub screen audience, Andy Gray introduced the new cinematic ...
Created on 21 May 2011
9. Letters, WSC 285
(Readers' letters)
... I felt all those years ago, every other week. Result. Dom Douglas, Sheffield Dear WSC Ray Green’s beautiful photograph of Tony Kay in WSC 284 holds a three-fold fascination for me. There is the football ...
Created on 21 November 2010
10. Out of tune
(World Cup 2010)
... choral tones betraying an appropriate lack of conviction that they wouldn’t come up short around the quarter-final mark. Today’s professionals are too grand and too burdened with more lucrative commitments ...
Created on 21 June 2010
11. Letters, WSC 277
(Readers' letters)
... idea for a reality TV show. Lasting six weeks and titled You Are The Ref or something similar, it would feature three of the most opinionated commentators (let’s say Andy Gray, Alan Green and Alan Brazil). ...
Created on 21 March 2010
12. Football in South Africa
(TV watch)
... a foreign visitor. He was only half joking. As the World Cup finals approach, the paranoia concerning crime in South African cities is felt more keenly by the locals than Europeans. Further to Ray Stubbs’s ...
Created on 21 February 2010
13. ESPN replaces Setanta
(TV watch)
... on ESPN, which are wittily shown in slow-motion and fast-forward to a Euro-rock soundtrack. In case anyone was worried about him, Ray Stubbs has washed up on ESPN’s weekend roundup programme, Between ...
Created on 21 December 2009
14. On air heads
(Media)
Ray Stubbs has flown the BBC nest to become the main anchorman at ESPN. Si Hawkins relates a cautionary tale of broadcasting folk who made similar transfers Amid all the machinations surrounding John ...
Created on 21 September 2009
15. Survival Sunday
(TV watch)
... Girls calm as Garth Crooks and Martin Keown soberly discussed Hull’s chances of nicking an equaliser, speaking when they were spoken to by Ray Stubbs and certainly not squawking in a heart-stopping manner ...
Created on 21 July 2009
16. Letters, WSC 268
(Readers' letters)
... the years and it always frustrates me to see the lack of thought and dignity it portrays.For crying out loud, the major kit manufactures have managed to produce all manner of paraphenalia in the past (undershirts ...
Created on 21 June 2009
17. WBA 1 Bolton Wanderers 1
(Match of the month)
... on his first return as an opposition manager to The Hawthorns, is out on the edge of his technical area, exhorting. Both he and Tony Mowb­wray are wearing dark suits – they look like a pair of rival undertakers ...
Created on 21 May 2009
18. Millwall 1 Carlisle United 0
(Match of the month)
... Day immediately squirms to mind – that was the song Bill Murray woke up to every morning. This being a cold evening – all gloves, big cups of coffee and visible breath – you half expect Murray and Andie ...
Created on 21 January 2009
19. Letters, WSC 261
(Readers' letters)
... proximity to the manager’s technical area was deemed dangerous by the Health and Safety Executive ? Can anyone shed any light on when they disappeared? Dave Murray, Leith Dear WSC Richard Weir’s letter ...
Created on 21 November 2008
20. Letters, WSC 258
(Readers' letters)
... citizens” above the din of the public-address system. But I don’t see how having a few moments of yelled conversation between Ray Stubbs and either Gordon Strachan or Marcel Desailly has helped the Euro ...
Created on 21 August 2008

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