Simon Clark (born 20 August 1960) is a British television sports presenter and correspondent primarily on the

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me, ''

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''. Before 2002 he worked for the

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and listeners in

South Yorkshire South Yorkshire is a ceremonial and metropolitan county in the Yorkshire and Humber Region of England. The county has four council areas which are the cities of Doncaster and Sheffield as well as the boroughs of Barnsley and Rotherham. In N ...

remember him as the sports presenter for

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. He worked there from 1991 to 1997. He also broadcast at Radio

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from 1988 to 1991 having started his career in the late 1970s at Kingstown Radio. before moving onto

Viking Radio Viking FM is an Independent Local Radio station based in Sheffield, England, owned and operated by Bauer as part of the Hits Radio network. It broadcasts to the East Riding of Yorkshire and Northern Lincolnshire. As of September 2022, the ...

in Hull when it launched in 1984. In 1994 he had his first daughter shortly followed by the second in 1998. In 2006 he hosted a pre-match event before every

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game involving

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, at the

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in Hull. His reports can occasionally be heard on ''

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'',

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's football results programme, on every Saturday during the

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season. He reported from the 2009 Barclays Asia Trophy in

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where

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beat

Hull City Hull City Association Football Club is a professional Association football, football club based in Kingston upon Hull, Hull, East Riding of Yorkshire, England, that compete in the . They have played home games at the MKM Stadium since moving ...

3–0 in the final. In the lead up to the 2012

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in London, Simon Clark has been reporting on the athletes, torch relay and occasions related to the event in Yorkshire and

Lincolnshire Lincolnshire (abbreviated Lincs.) is a county in the East Midlands of England, with a long coastline on the North Sea to the east. It borders Norfolk to the south-east, Cambridgeshire to the south, Rutland to the south-west, Leicestershire ...

. He also worked on BBC School Report from the organisation's base in Salford. Simon Clark began his working life in business, where he ran a successful travel agency before moving into the world of media. He lists travel as one of his passions. That list also includes refereeing in the Hull Boys Sunday Football League when not reporting on BBC ''Look North''.

References

External links

Simon Clark bio at Look NorthSimon Clark BBC SheffieldSimon Clark's history of Hull FC
{{DEFAULTSORT:Clark, Simon 1960 births Living people People from Kingston upon Hull British television journalists