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Ewart Bryon Butler (5 June 1934 – 26 April 2001) was an
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writer and broadcaster, best known as the
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football correspondent from 1968 to 1991.
He was born in
Taunton
Taunton () is the county town of Somerset, England, with a 2011 population of 69,570. Its thousand-year history includes a 10th-century monastic foundation, Taunton Castle, which later became a priory. The Normans built a castle owned by the ...
,
Somerset
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and educated at
Taunton School
Taunton School is a co-educational independent school in the county town of Taunton in Somerset in South West England. It serves boarding and day-school pupils from the ages of 13 to 18.
The current headmaster is Lee Glaser, appointed in the aut ...
. After working for a number of regional
newspaper
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s, he joined the ''
News Chronicle
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'' shortly before its closure in 1960, soon moving to ''
The Daily Telegraph
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It was f ...
''. Around this time, he also started reporting football matches for the BBC, and in 1968 became a radio commentator and the corporation's football correspondent. He was well known for his crisp, eloquent, precise style, with a distinctive
West Country
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undertone to his voice. Although he often did not actually commentate on the very big occasions, frequently taking a side role as summariser (in earlier years) or presenter or reporter (in later years), he commentated on a number of
World Cup
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finals, as well as the famous quarter-final between
England
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and
Argentina
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in 1986. He frequently worked alongside
Maurice Edelston,
Peter Jones,
Alan Parry
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and, latterly,
Alan Green and
Mike Ingham.
He wrote or co-wrote a number of football books and also wrote for the ''Daily Telegraph'' on
cricket
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. In 1991, he retired as the BBC's football correspondent to concentrate on his writing career. He also gave up commentary around this time.
On his death in 2001, he was widely mourned as a representative of a bygone era of sports broadcasting, arguably less brash and more eloquent than the present.
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1934 births
2001 deaths
English association football commentators
English writers
People educated at Taunton School
People from Taunton