Not For Me, Clive: Stories From the Voice of Football

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Nothing is off limits, from culinary delights to train journeys and world-famous performers, as each guest guides us through the why, the how and the when of their seven passions. Other co-commentators, Martin Keown and Jermaine Jenas for instance, also come in for a kicking any time they are on, but Murphy is the dish of the day. Whilst I was upset, I completely respect my contract was up and it was their right to make a change.

I grew up at a time when Liverpool (and Everton to be fair) were incredibly successful and the soundtrack to my youth was provided by Mr Clive Tyldesley. Gary Neville slams Man United for 'losing their discipline' as Erik ten Hag's side concede twice in eight. Everton 3-0 Burnley:James Tarkowski scores against former club before Amadou Onana and Ashley Young seal. The books featured on this site are aimed primarily at readers aged 13 or above and therefore you must be 13 years or over to sign up to our newsletter. He’s a broadcaster rather than a journalist and this, I believe, is how he gained the trust of managers to be privy to confidential match day squads beforehand.Clive Tyldesley's brilliant, emotive commentaries became the soundtrack to matches that will stay with the fans for the rest of their lives. The book neither improved my opinion or lowered it of Clive, it could have done without the political waffle. The first thing you’ve got to get your head around as a broadcaster,” Clive Tyldesley says, “is that it’s not actually about you.

While he respected their decision - and has nothing but respect for the man who replaced him - to say he was unhappy with it would be an understatement. I have met 17 of the people that have taken charge of my country’s national football team and come to know 11 of them reasonably well.Every commentator and reporter has asked the question - what was that we were watching and is it worth it? Tyldesley’s memories of working with Brian Clough, Bill Shankly and Sir Alex Ferguson are very different, and they enrich his book. He just wasn't diagnosed early enough, if they had spotted it, he would still be with us and he's not. He was going to be my running mate four years later but ITV needed him in a studio in South Africa and our partnership was prematurely ended.

Each chapter is named after an influential player, manager, or commentator who has inspired Clive throughout his career. I really liked Matt DA too, but didn't list him at first because Alesha Dixon was my favourite that year and obviously she won over him!I had a fascination with the coverage of football from an early age and I'm as excited and engaged in the profession today as I was when I got my first break.

Both approaches are markedly different from how the role was initially conceived, in the days when Brian Moore worked with Kevin Keegan. EXCLUSIVE: FA issues guidance to clubs warning players and staff to take 'extreme caution' when commenting. We’ve tried good cops and bad cops, popular choices and professional choices, veterans and rookies, turnips and Swedes.He won the prestigious Royal Television Society Sports Commentator of the Year in 1998, 2000, 2002 and 2005, and was voted the Sony Radio Awards' Sports Broadcaster of the Year in 1983.