He told Desert Island Discs: “To be honest with you, my love for football had slightly deserted me prior to [Hillsborough] because it was a bad decade, the 80s, and hooliganism was a major part of that. “We had a lot of personal injury with fans attacking each other at grounds. And we had Heysel, […]
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Football pundit John Motson to leave BBC after 50 years sport commentating
The announcement follows fifty consecutive years of work with the BBC that have seen 72-year-old Motson cover 10 World Cups, 29 FA Cup finals, 10 European Championships and more than two hundred England games. Motty – who was once described as half-man and half sheepskin coat – insists it is not time for “pipe and […]