RIP John Motson & Dickie Davies


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Just as John Arlott was the voice of cricket, today we have lost the voice of football John Motson aged 77

Retiring in 2008 after commentating on over 200 matches on TV and radio. He was also commentating on the FA Cup semi-final of Forest vs Liverpool at Hillsborough when 94 people died on that fateful day.

We also lost Wide World of Sports anchor from 1968 to 1985 Dickie Davies he was 94.

There can be few sports fans on here that have not heard or seen them on tv and radio.

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We were very sorry to hear of old Motty passing away.  
Twenty years ago he nearly bought our house in Hertfordshire.  He turned up to view one afternoon on his own and seemed very impressed with it and came back the following day with his wife and son Fred.  Obviously it wasn’t what his wife was after but they were a lovely family and of course we had a discussions about his work, and about his famous sheepskin coat while  he was with us.  I believe he then decided to build an ‘eco-house’ in the next village, complete with a turf roof.   As we’ve been away on holiday one of our sons sent me a link to the BBC website announcing his death, with the comment that he remembers meeting him in his bedroom when he’d got a stinking hangover, son not Motty! 

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