Samuel Peter Matterface (born 21 April 1978) is an English sports broadcaster currently working for TalkSPORT and
ITV Sport
ITV Sport is a sport producer for ITV. It was formed following the merger between Granada Sport and Central Sport.hospital radio station OHR, before moving into commercial radio at 16. He worked at
BBC Radio Kent
BBC Radio Kent is the BBC's local radio station serving the county of Kent.
It broadcasts on FM, DAB, digital TV and via BBC Sounds from studios at The Great Hall in Tunbridge Wells.
According to RAJAR, the station has a weekly audience of ...
in 1998, then Capital Radio Sport from 1999. Matterface worked at the south-coast radio station
107.4 The Quay
Easy Radio South Coast is an Independent Local Radio station based in Southampton, England, owned and operated by Nation Broadcasting. It broadcasts to the South Coast of the England.
As of September 2022, the station has a weekly audience of 47 ...
, where he presented the breakfast show and a variety of sports related programmes from 2001–2007.
Between 2006 and 2007, Matterface worked on the Sky channel Bravo, featuring in weekly segments on the football magazine show ''
Football Italia
''Football Italia'' was a television programme in the United Kingdom, showing Italian football, that ran from 1992 to 2002 on Channel 4, and continued until 2008 on other channels. It was known as ''Football Italiano'' in its final season.
The ...
''. He presented short reels, entitled "What's a Matter You?", showcasing the more light-hearted moments of the
Serie A
The Serie A (), also called Serie A TIM for national sponsorship with TIM, is a professional league competition for football clubs located at the top of the Italian football league system and the winner is awarded the Scudetto and the Cop ...
gameweek, amidst the ongoing 2006 match-fixing scandal. The section was dropped in 2007 when the rights to Italian football were acquired by the
free-to-air
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Sky Sports News
Sky Sports News (SSN) is a British paid television sports news channel run by Sky, a division of Comcast.
History
Since 1992, Sky Sports had broadcast sports news, initially a brief ''Football Update'' and later this was expanded into a ...
in July 2007, before leaving in late 2010.
On 12 January 2018, Matterface was confirmed as Matt Chapman's replacement as commentator for ITV's '' Dancing on Ice''.
On 14 July 2020, ITV announced that Matterface would replace Clive Tyldesley as lead football and England commentator at the start of the 2020-2021 season.
Personal life
Matterface is a supporter of
Chelsea F.C.
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Matterface was previously married to former Sky Sports colleague Natalie Sawyer with whom he has a child.