Samuel Peter Matterface (born 21 April 1978) is an English sports broadcaster currently working for
TalkSPORT and
ITV Sport.
Career
Matterface started working in sports radio in 1992 for local
hospital radio station OHR, before moving into commercial radio at 16. He worked at
BBC Radio Kent 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''. 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 Copp ...
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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broadcaster
Channel 5.
He started presenting on
Sky Sports News
Sky Sports News (SSN) is a British pay television, paid television sports news channel run by Sky Limited, Sky, a division of Comcast.
History
Since 1992, Sky Sports had broadcast sports news, initially a brief ''Football Update'' and lat ...
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
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 ...
as lead football and England commentator at the start of the 2020-2021 season.
Personal life
Matterface is a supporter of
Chelsea F.C. Matterface was previously married to former Sky Sports colleague
Natalie Sawyer
Natalie Lorraine Sawyer (born 23 October 1979) is an English television and podcast presenter and Talksport radio presenter.
Sawyer parted company with Sky Sports News in March 2018, after eighteen years of service having initially joined t ...
with whom he has a child.
References
External links
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1978 births
English association football commentators
English sports broadcasters
Living people
People from Dartford
Television personalities from Kent