This is no small achievement, because back in 1971, when Motty got his break commentating on the famous cup replay between Hereford and Newcastle United, the football broadcasting industry was small and relatively new. Match Of The Day was just seven years old and being a match commentator a rather peripheral role in football’s firmament.
Yet it was Motty’s quirkiness that made him so popular and kept him at the top of the game for so long.The whole of the stats industry owes him a debt of gratitude because it was Motty’s inclination to do research and discover if a player was Burnley’s tallest ever, or who was the highest scorer in the 1926/27 FA Cup, or what the wife of groundsman at Adams Park was called, that established there was a desire to hear the deeper cuts from football’s database.
But all of the endearing idiosyncrasies were still present.
When he did his last MOTD commentary, a 2-0 win for Crystal Palace over WBA in May 2018, he sounded just the same as he had done on the January afternoon back in ‘71. He was remarkably consistent.
JohnnyTheNic What a great article 👏👏👏 for loads of us the voice of football growing up. Never thought about his love of stats being the main factor in football nowadays that we accept and yes everyone says he was the first to introduce it all those years ago
JohnnyTheNic Well said, John
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