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The Championship (TV Programme)
''The Championship'' (formerly known as ''Championship Goals'' between January 2008 and May 2008) is a British football television programme featuring highlights from the Coca-Cola Football League. It was almost always shown on Sunday mornings on ITV, presented by Matt Smith. Despite its name, it also covered Football League One and Football League Two matches, albeit to a lesser extent than Championship matches. The show included various additional features since it began in August 2004 and had its format changed due to widespread criticism of the number of commercial breaks. Link scenes usually involved Smith speaking to camera from various parts of the stadium of the featured match, such as the dressing rooms, the referee's office, the boot room, the pie stand and so on. The team Presenter Matt Smith was the presenter from the start and very rarely absent. On the rare occasions he was absent, Andy Townsend, Robbie Earle, Craig Doyle and Dave Beckett deputised. Angus Scott pr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Matt Smith (broadcaster)
Matt Smith (born 26 April 1967) is a British broadcaster, who worked with ITV Sport between 2001 and 2015. He currently presents BT Sport's coverage of Premier League, FA Cup, Champions League, Europa League, Conference Football and England Under 21 matches. Early life Smith is a Modern Languages and Political Studies graduate from Sheffield City Polytechnic, where he studied from 1985–89.How to be ... Matt Smith ''The Guardian'', 28 February 2005 During that time, he spent a year in as part of his studies. He was then offered an internship with the |
Richard Henwood
Richard is a male given name. It originates, via Old French, from Old Frankish and is a compound of the words descending from Proto-Germanic ''*rīk-'' 'ruler, leader, king' and ''*hardu-'' 'strong, brave, hardy', and it therefore means 'strong in rule'. Nicknames include "Richie", "Dick", "Dickon", " Dickie", "Rich", "Rick", "Rico", "Ricky", and more. Richard is a common English, German and French male name. It's also used in many more languages, particularly Germanic, such as Norwegian, Danish, Swedish, Icelandic, and Dutch, as well as other languages including Irish, Scottish, Welsh and Finnish. Richard is cognate with variants of the name in other European languages, such as the Swedish "Rickard", the Catalan "Ricard" and the Italian "Riccardo", among others (see comprehensive variant list below). People named Richard Multiple people with the same name * Richard Andersen (other) * Richard Anderson (other) * Richard Cartwright (other) * Ri ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
EFL Championship
The English Football League Championship (often referred to as the Championship for short or the Sky Bet Championship for sponsorship purposes) is the highest division of the English Football League (EFL) and second-highest overall in the English football league system, after the Premier League. The league is contested by 24 clubs. Introduced for the 2004–05 season as the Football League Championship the division was previously known as the Football League Second Division ( 1892– 1992) and Football League First Division ( 1992– 2004). The winning club of the Championship receives the EFL Championship trophy, the same trophy that was awarded to English First Division champions from 1892 until 1992. As in other divisions of professional English football, Welsh clubs can be part of the division, making it a cross-border league. Each season, the two top-finishing teams in the Championship are automatically promoted to the Premier League. The teams that finish the season ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Premiership (TV Series)
''The Premiership'' (also known as ''The Premiership on ITV'') is a television programme which showed highlights of the FA Premier League. It was ITV Sport's flagship football show from August 2001 to May 2004. The show was created after the ITV network won a multimillion-pound deal to air Premier League highlights once owned by the BBC. The programme was presented by Des Lynam, with Gabby Logan as a stand-in and Ally McCoist, Barry Venison and Andy Townsend frequently serving as pundits. ''The Premiership'' ended in 2004, when the rights returned to the BBC from the 2004/05 season. Background ''Match of the Day'', the BBC's long-running football programme, was in its eighth year of terrestrial Premier League coverage and about to start a record ninth in 2000. Bidding for a further three seasons to the Premier League panel, the broadcaster went in as favourites to retain the exclusive highlights package. The contract was however awarded to rival network ITV at the last possible ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Donovan Blake
Donovan Livingston Blake (born 4 December 1961 in Jamaica) is a Jamaican-born American cricketer. Blake first represented the United States in the 2001 ICC Trophy and he went on to represent the States in a first-class game in the 2004 ICC Intercontinental Cup and then in their second ever One Day International, when they lost to Australia at the Rose Bowl, Southampton, England in 2004. This was his only ODI he played for United States The United States of America (U.S.A. or USA), commonly known as the United States (U.S. or US) or America, is a country primarily located in North America. It consists of 50 states, a federal district, five major unincorporated territorie ... he scored 0 runs and bowled one over conceding 7 runs and no wicket. External links 1961 births Living people American cricketers United States One Day International cricketers Jamaican emigrants to the United States American people of Jamaican descent {{US-cricket-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tony Jones (football Reporter),
Tony Jones (born 26 May 1958) is a football broadcaster based in England. He has contributed to UK commercial broadcasting outlets Sky Sports, five, Channel 4 and ITV - commentating on everything from the UEFA Champions League to the English non-League. He has been part of the Hostbroadcastservices (HBS) team at three FIFA World Cups, and his voice has been heard on games distributed overseas by IMG among others. He has won a Royal Television Society award for his sports reporting, and has also been responsible for producing several programmes. Work with ITV Jones began his television career in ITV in 1982 at Anglia Television in Norwich. Jones commentated on football and produced a number of programmes - including an insight into the horse racing industry and the arrival in England of Sergei Baltacha, a Ukrainian who was the first footballer from the old Soviet Union to play in Britain during the Glasnost era. He also won a Royal Television Society award for his journa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Rawling
John Rawling is a British boxing, track and field, darts and yachting commentator, currently working for BT Sport, ITV and Talksport. He has become known as one of the best known voices of boxing commentary. With BT, John commentates alongside former World Super-Middleweight champion Richie Woodhall, while former World Cruiserweight champion Glenn McCrory is his co-commentator with Talksport. On ITV darts broadcasts, John commentates with Chris Mason, Stuart Pyke, Dan Dawson and Alan Warriner-Little, while Mason and Paul Nicholson are alongside him for Talksport darts coverage. John also commentates on Paralympic sports for Channel 4. He was the lead commentator for Channel 4 in their award-winning coverage of the 2012 Paralympics in London and the 2011 IAAF World Athletics Championships in Korea. Channel 4 received a BAFTA for Best Live Sports Broadcast for their coverage of the Paralympics and also received a special award from the Royal Television Society. He has subsequen ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Clive Tyldesley
Clive Tyldesley (born 21 August 1954) is an English television sports broadcaster. He was ITV's senior football commentator from 1998 until 2020. In that role, he has led the ITV commentary team at four World Cups and four European Championships, and been lead commentator on 17 UEFA Champions League finals and a commentator on nine FA Cup finals for ITV. 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. He currently serves as a lead commentator for CBS/Paramount Plus on the English–language UEFA Champions League coverage in the U.S. and Rangers Football Club on their in-house Rangers TV service. In 2021 his first book was published by Headline: the semi-autobiographical ‘Not for me, Clive’. Following requests from his social media followers Clive has also made prints of his famous commentary charts available to purchase online. Tyldes ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jon Champion
Jonathan Martin Champion (born 23 May 1965) is a British sports commentator currently working as the lead association football commentator for ESPN (US). Champion is a well-established and experienced commentator who has also worked for the BBC and ITV over the last 20 years.He has commentated on four FA Cup Finals and six League Cup Finals, as well as numerous games across the Premier League, Champions League and Football League. Champion currently covers the FA Cup for ESPN/ABC and the 2022 FIFA World Cup for ITV. His late father David Champion was the deputy headmaster of the independent school Bootham School, York. Jon's commentaries can also be heard on the worldwide feed of many Premier League and League Cup matches worldwide. Early life Jonathan Martin Champion was born on 23 May 1965 in Harrogate, West Riding of Yorkshire. BBC Sport Champion joined BBC Sport in the late 1980s and worked as a football commentator on BBC Radio Five Live between 1992 and 1996. He worked ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Peter Drury
Peter Drury (born 24 September 1967) is a British sports commentator who currently works for NBC Sports as the lead main (play-by-play) commentator for its Premier League coverage in the United States. Prior to joining NBC Sports, Drury was the lead main (play-by-play) commentator for Premier League Productions. Drury continues to freelance for Amazon Prime Video for its Premier League coverage in the United Kingdom, for BT Sport on coverage of the UEFA Europa League and UEFA Europa Conference League, for Host Broadcast Services (HBS) for the English-language world feed of the men's FIFA World Cup and for Gravity Media for the English-language world feed of the men's UEFA European Championship. Drury freelanced for CBS Sports (US) on its English-language coverage of UEFA Champions League and the Europa League in 2020-2022. He had also freelanced with Pitch International for the English-language world feed of the EFL Cup through 2022. Drury was formerly with ITV Sport (UK) as ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gary Bloom
Gary Bloom is a Welsh people, Welsh clinical sports psychotherapist and a sports broadcaster. As a sports commentator, commentator, Bloom has provided his commentary mainly in the FIFA World Cup, World Cup and the Football at the Summer Olympics, Olympics. For many seasons, Bloom was a commentator on the ''Football Italia'' programme on Channel 4. Bloom hosts the award-winning show "''On the Sporting Couch"'' on talkSPORT radio, and is the main commentator of the Dream League Soccer, DLS game series. As a psychotherapist, Bloom works for Oxford United F.C., Oxford United and is the only psychotherapist working in first team professional football. Bloom was the commentator during the Battle of Nuremberg (2006 FIFA World Cup), Portugal vs Netherlands match in the 2006 FIFA World Cup, 2006 World Cup, also known as the "Battle of Nuremberg", in which he referred to the scene of Khalid Boulahrouz, Deco and Giovanni van Bronckhorst sitting together on the sidelines after being sent ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mick Conway
Michael Denis Conway (born 11 March 1956) is an English former professional footballer who played as a winger in the Football League for Brighton & Hove Albion and Swansea City. Career Conway was born in 1956 in Sheffield. He began his football career as an apprentice with Brighton & Hove Albion in 1972, and made his senior debut in the last match of the 1972–73 Second Division season, at home to Nottingham Forest on 28 April 1973. At the age of , he became the club's youngest league debutanta record he held until 1987 when the 16-year-old Ian Chapman first appearedand scored the equalising goal, albeit via a deflection. His club record as youngest goalscorer was only broken when Jake Robinson, also 16, scored in the Football League Trophy 40 years later. Later in 1973, he represented England Youth. Conway turned professional with Brighton in 1974, but played only once more for the team before joining Fourth Division club Swansea City in December 1975 for a £3,000 fee. Con ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |