Sports Commentator Hall of Fame

**Roger Webb** · 13-04-24, 10:07

Colemanballs......as a forward jumped to head the ball from a corner, he exclaimed '....well, he's well over six feet one and a quarter'

**LMcD** · 13-04-24, 10:22

Originally posted by Roger Webb View Post

Colemanballs......as a forward jumped to head the ball from a corner, he exclaimed '....well, he's well over six feet one and a quarter'

Rugby Union: Andrew Cotter and Miles Harrison

**cloughie** · 13-04-24, 10:29

Football - ANYONE WHO RECOGNISES THERE IS NOT JUST THE PREMIER LEAGUE!

**Historian** · 13-04-24, 12:09

Cricket
Television

Richie Benaud

(Met him once on a train and he was incredibly polite and friendly)

**Ein Heldenleben** · 13-04-24, 12:14

Originally posted by Historian View Post

Cricket
Television

Richie Benaud

(Met him once on a train and he was incredibly polite and friendly)

Yep you’re right . Can’t believe I forgot. The best …arguably in any sport.

**Historian** · 13-04-24, 12:43

Originally posted by Ein Heldenleben View Post

Yep you’re right . Can’t believe I forgot. The best …arguably in any sport.

Don't be too hard on yourself. That's the joy of this type of question: who else would you include?

Benaud was very good at not wasting words and making what he did say count.

**Ein Heldenleben** · 13-04-24, 12:55

Originally posted by Historian View Post

Don't be too hard on yourself. That's the joy of this type of question: who else would you include?

Benaud was very good at not wasting words and making what he did say count.

The greatest reader of a game I’ve ever encountered - only McEnroe in tennis comes close. I don’t know why but I find all the soccer summarisers pretty average.

**smittims** · 13-04-24, 13:03

My favourite Murrayballs was just before the hair-raising end of a thrilling formula one race when suddenly the camera cut away to show a man climbing a gantry. Murray, exasperated in mid-flow, said 'I can't think why they're showing us that idiot' .

'I think that's the guy with the chequered flag, Murray'.

'Oh, I do apologise...'

**Roger Webb** · 13-04-24, 13:51

Originally posted by Roger Webb View Post

Colemanballs......as a forward jumped to head the ball from a corner, he exclaimed '....well, he's well over six feet one and a quarter'

Colemanballs II. On another occasion, similar situation, he enthused '.....the way he headed that ball, it's as though he's got a boot between his ears'!

**LMcD** · 13-04-24, 14:22

Originally posted by Ein Heldenleben View Post

Yep you’re right . Can’t believe I forgot. The best …arguably in any sport.

**teamsaint** · 13-04-24, 16:19

Benaud was quite outstanding.

Although John Arlott was worth a listen, in a very different way.

liked ” Clarke……1-0” David Coleman
favourite colmanballs….” This boy swims like a greyhoud”
and

” And there was Keegan, like a surgeon’s knife…….bang “.

**LMcD** · 13-04-24, 17:37

Originally posted by teamsaint View Post

Benaud was quite outstanding.

Although John Arlott was worth a listen, in a very different way.

liked ” Clarke……1-0” David Coleman
favourite colmanballs….” This boy swims like a greyhoud”
and

” And there was Keegan, like a surgeon’s knife…….bang “.

John Arlott once described Fred Rumsey's run-up to the wicket as 'aldermanic'. I'm pleased to say that FR is still with us (aged 88).

**Ein Heldenleben** · 13-04-24, 17:43

Originally posted by LMcD View Post

John Arlott once described Fred Rumsey's run-up - well, approach- to the wicket as 'aldermanic'.

Excellenf.

Brian Johnson once said “and here come Umpires X and Y looking in their white coats for all the world like a pair of dentists .”

Arlott thought a bit and said “ it occurs to me that the one thing umpires have in common with dentists is that they both draw stumps.”

..and that is commentator genius.

**LMcD** · 13-04-24, 17:46

Ted Walsh: 'This is really a lovely horse, I once rode her mother'.