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James Alexander Gordon (10 February 1936 – 18 August 2014) was a Scottish radio broadcaster, best known for reading the classified check of the
football
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results every Saturday at 17:00 on
BBC Radio Five Live
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's ''
Sports Report
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''.
Born in
Edinburgh
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in 1936,
as a baby he was paralysed with
polio
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and he spent a large part of his childhood in hospital.
He worked in music publishing before joining the
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in 1972, becoming an announcer and newsreader (mostly on
Radio 2) until the early 1990s. In 1974 he followed in the footsteps of John Webster, reading the
classified football results, first on Radio 2 and later on Five Live.
Popularly known as "Jag",
he used his intonation, when pronouncing the names of the clubs, to indicate whether a match had ended in a home win, away win or draw.
Gordon also worked as a freelance voice artist, recording voice-overs and commenting on company videos.
He announced his retirement from radio in July 2013 following surgery to remove his larynx after being diagnosed with cancer which rendered his voice too weak for broadcasting. He was succeeded as the reader of the classified football results by former
Radio 4 newsreader
Charlotte Green
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After 1988 she specialised in news reading, including reading the news on Radio 4 breakfast ''Today'' programme ...
from late September 2013.
Gordon reprised his role as announcer of the football results to read fictional results for the play ''Jumpers for Goalposts''.
Death
Gordon died of cancer on 18 August 2014,
at the Sue Ryder Duchess of Kent Hospice in Reading.
References
External links
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Obituaryin
The Independent
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by
Marcus Williamson
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Campaigns
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1936 births
2014 deaths
BBC sports presenters and reporters
People with polio
Scottish radio presenters
Entertainers from Edinburgh
Deaths from cancer in England