“i broke commentary’s cardinal sin by saying, ‘and solskjaer has won it’ – if they hadn’t won, they would’ve hanged effigies of me!” clive tyldesley

You worked with the great Brian Clough at Sunderland, Derby and Nottingham Forest. How was your relationship with him? Initially, I was in his bad books. When I joined Sunderland as an apprentice, he

Many kids come from council estates, but not many came from a council estate in Camden Town, when Britpop was at its peak. It was the ’90s, Oasis were huge and Noel Gallagher would go to the boozer wi

You’ve been described as ‘the voice of football’. How does that feel? It’s weird because it’s been my voice all my life, so I don’t really see it like that. My dad, Alan, had a better voice. He was a

Matt James spoke to some of those who have successfully switched from a life in the cockpit to find a home in the commentary booth

J ack Wilshere is such a smiling character that it’s occasionally easy to forget how much of a competitor he is. Short in stature but not willpower, Wilshere was training alongside Thierry Henry at 14

You were subbed on and off in 11 minutes on your Blackburn debut, then scored the winning penalty in a League Cup tie in your second game. That must have been a whirlwind? Blackburn are my hometown cl