John Motson

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About John Motson

John Walker Motson was an English football commentator. Beginning as a television commentator with the BBC in 1971, he commentated on over 2000 games on television and radio. From the late 1970s to 2008, Motson was the dominant football commentary figure at the BBC, apart from a brief spell in the mid-1990s. Birthdays.fyi indexes this profile with birthday, age, profession cluster, source links, and nearby people born on July 10.

Before fame

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Trivia

English sportscaster (died 2023). This page is tagged with Sports, Silent Generation, Global.

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