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lizardbooy · 24 days

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I did not draw a reference for her, since she is not the main character of My story

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justforbooks · 1 year

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John Motson: The unmistakable voice of football known simply as ‘Motty’

John Motson, who has died aged 77, was BBC television’s “voice” of football for almost half a century, commentating for Match of the Day from 1971 until his retirement in 2018 and becoming affectionately known as “Motty”.

“I remember my first game, Liverpool against Chelsea,” he recalled. “They kicked off and my heart sank because I thought, ‘What do I say now?’ I still remember the feeling. I realised I had a lot of work to do.”

Alongside the energy and passion he brought to the game, that work was evident in his trademark style of reeling off statistics written on an A4 sheet of card in felt-tip pen for each match. Motson put this “obsession” for facts and figures down to being “terrified of not knowing enough or making a mistake” in his early days. He admitted to “overdosing” on it, and gradually used less background information in his commentaries.

Nevertheless, his filing system continued to grow – as did his library of more than 500 football record books. On top of the stats, he displayed an eloquence for describing the occasion. When Liverpool were beaten 0-1 in the 1988 FA Cup final by the unfancied Wimbledon – known for the eccentric behaviour of their players and fans – he spontaneously summed up: “The Crazy Gang has beaten the Culture Club.”

Earlier, at the end of the 1977 FA Cup final, when Manchester United – captained by Martin Buchan – beat Liverpool 2-1, Motson must have been silently thrilled that it enabled him to put his research into action and say: “How fitting that a man called Buchan should be the first to ascend the 39 steps to the royal box”, recalling “ The Thirty-Nine Steps” celebrated spy novel by John Buchan.

His ability to remember every detail of each game he covered also made Motson ideal company away from the pitch. If, for example, he was asked about a Division One Southampton v Birmingham City match at the Dell in the 1973-74 season, he would not only recall the result and those booked, but describe in detail Peter Osgood’s perm and the pattern made by a set of studs on a shin.

However, he was not averse to the occasional “Colemanballs”, emulating the verbal gaffes of his fellow football commentator David Coleman, who was presenter of Match of the Day by the time he started on it himself. Among Motson’s were: “The World Cup is truly an international event”, “The goals made such a difference to the way this game went”, and “For those of you watching in black-and-white, Spurs are in the yellow strip”.

In his long career commentating on more than 2,500 televised games, Motson covered nine World Cups (1974-2006), 29 FA Cup finals (1977-2007, missing just two) and nine European Championships (1976-2008).

He stepped back from his position as the BBC’s lead commentator in 2008, saying he had thought about the forthcoming World Cup in South Africa two years later and “just didn’t feel quite up for it”. His last live commentary was the Euro 2008 final, with Spain beating Germany 1-0 in Vienna.

However, he continued commentating both for football highlights on Match of the Day and for BBC Radio 5 Live until 2018. His final TV commentary was for the Premier League match between Crystal Palace and West Bromwich Albion.

Motson’s standing meant that he became part of the impersonator Rory Bremner’s repertoire of characters, complete with the sheepskin coats that became another of his trademarks on screen after he reached for one when horizontal sleet started falling during an FA Cup tie at Wycombe Wanderers’ ground in 1990.

He had them made to measure in Savile Row, central London, able to afford them on an income that he said gave him security after growing up in a family where his father’s income was “very modest”.

John was born in Salford, which was then in Lancashire, to Gwendoline (nee Harrison) and William Motson, a Methodist minister, brought up in London and educated at Culford school, near Bury St Edmonds, in Suffolk.

His father took him to a Charlton Athletic football match when he was six and, spending childhood holidays in Lincolnshire, his mother’s home county, he supported the non-League team Boston United.

As a teenager, Motson played the game himself in the Barnet Sunday League, as well as becoming a Barnet and Potters Bar youth table-tennis champion.

On leaving school, he began his career in journalism as a reporter on the Barnet Press in 1963. He then moved to the Sheffield Morning Telegraph (1967-68), where he started covering football, qualified as an FA preliminary coach and freelanced for BBC Radio Sheffield.

In 1968, he moved to BBC Radio Sport in London and was first heard nationally as presenter of Radio 4’s Saturday-evening after-match Sports Session (1969-70) before commentating on live matches for Radio 2 (1969-71).

He switched to television and Match of the Day in 1971 following Kenneth Wolstenholme’s departure – becoming TV’s youngest football commentator, aged 26.

Motson found himself describing the disaster at the Hillsborough stadium in Sheffield for the 1989 FA Cup semi-final between Nottingham Forest and Liverpool, which resulted in the deaths of 97 Liverpool fans.

During three seasons from 2001 when the BBC lost rights to Premier League highlights to ITV, Motson commentated for Radio 5 Live. On leaving the BBC in 2018, Motson commentated for talkSPORT, as well as appearing regularly as a pundit on the commercial radio station’s football shows.

Ten years earlier, reflecting on the influence of money in football, he had observed: “It’s true that the game has changed so much, and in many ways not for the better, but it is still the game. It is still beautiful and it still has the power, as few others things, to move nations and continents and, every four years, the world.”

Motson, whose autobiography, Motty: 40 Years in the Commentary Box, was published in 2009, was named the Royal Television Society’s commentator of the year in 2004 and won a Bafta special award in 2018. He was made OBE in 2001.

In 1976 he married Anne Jobling, and she survives him, with their son, Frederick.

🔔 John Walker Motson, football commentator, born 10 July 1945; died 23 February 2023

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wujudduo · 2 years

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Son ambiant de l'exposition "The transformation of silence"

"...l'artiste capte des éléments volatils qui se transforment en traces d'un passage, et simultanément deviennent une bande sonore machinale. Ces pulsations sonores se mélangent, résonnent, se superposent à la bande sonore du triptyque, et dessine ainsi des trajectoires à travers les terres et les expériences. " @marianna-liosi

Extrait du texte de l’exposition de l’exposition « The Transformation of Silence: with Héla Ammar and Souad Mani » curatée par Marianna Liosi à la Chapelle de Carthage. L’exposition est l’un des résultats de la bourse 2021 sur la mémoire et la justice, au Merian Centre for Advanced Studies in the Maghreb (MECAM), à Tunis. L’événement est le résultat d’une coopération entre le MECAM et La Boîte (Tunis), avec l’aimable soutien de Fatma Kilani.

#son #ambiance #exposition #souadmani #romainpapion #wujudduo #wujud #marianaliosi #sensible #mecam #laboitelieudartcontemporain #landscape #motty #information #SoundCloud

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pluspete · 1 year

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John Motson was a great football commentator and in fact in many ways he was THE voice of football. Why are some people simply the voice of choice?

#commentator #football #johnmotson #mottie #motty

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markagorman · 1 year

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My pal Motty, may he RIP.

There was a time, several years in fact, during John Motson’s pomp when I could call him a pal. You see, John and I were in a syndicate with Terry Williams and Bob Sims. All four of us, at that time, big horse racing fans (National Hunt, not Flat – that’s not proper racing). The Racing Post ran a sort of Fantasy Horse Racing competition at that time which we paid £5 each to enter a list of ten…

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comicus-uk · 1 year

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Motty: Voice of Football RIP

John Motson: Apprentice John Motson, the son of a Methodist minister who first stimulated his interest in football; celebrated his 40th anniversary on Match of the Day in October 2011. After an apprenticeship on the Barnet Press weekly newspaper; John moved to the Morning Telegraph in Sheffield where he first covered league football. A short freelance spell with BBC Radio Sheffield was followed…

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otherstuffthatilikerightnow · 1 year

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מוטי שטיינמץ - ואמר ביום ההוא Motty Steinmetz Veomar Bayom Hahu

"And he said on that day, Behold our God, we have hoped in him, and our savior is the Lord, we have hoped in him for revelation and rejoice in his salvation

#youtube #Motty #Jewish

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ari-leah-arts · 6 months

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BONUS:

A little late Christmas gift for @madelgard (it’s a very vague and bastardized version of how we became buddies)

First time drawing Motti and Jerjerrod!

#star wars #firmus piett #admiral motti #tiaan jerjerrod #admiral firmus piett #conan antonio motti #vader #darth vader #admiral piett #piett #sw imps #comic #my art

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motti-the-cat · 4 months

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BIG EYES

#mötti-kissa #motti cat #mötti #cats #yea

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desktopdinosaur · 2 months

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IVE RECENTLY GAINED A COOL MUTUAL-

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#art #myart #my art #digtal art #digtalart #undertale #sans #undertaleau #sketch #horrortale #horror #horror sans #mothiepixie #motti #fan art #YALL #I screamed when I saw the notification #I’m slowly establishing myself as a sans fan girl #we win these

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didderd · 5 months

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litol gift doodle i drew for Mothie <3

Motti belongs to @mothiepixie Tic belongs to me

#best tic ship #<3 #lov themb #so cute <3 #tic x motti #motti #tic sans #tourette's sans #undertale #undertale au #didderd art #motti is so pretty Q Q)#n tic agrees hehe #(forgor to color in motti's teef in th version i put in discord gfkjnb)

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wujudduo · 2 years

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Vue de l’exposition « The Transformation of Silence: with Héla Ammar and Souad Mani » curatée par Marianna Liosi à la Chapelle de Carthage. L’exposition est l’un des résultats de la bourse 2021 sur la mémoire et la justice, au Merian Centre for Advanced Studies in the Maghreb (MECAM), à Tunis. L’événement est le résultat d’une coopération entre le MECAM et La Boîte (Tunis), avec l’aimable soutien de Fatma Kilani.

Duo Wujud (Souad Mani et Romain Papion) Strates de l'incertitude | 2022 Vidéo intéractive, 14’:20’’ Usine ArcelorMittal, France

Duo Wujud (Souad Mani et Romain Papion) Strates de l'incertitude | 2022 Datavisualisation, 19’:27’’ Usine ArcelorMittal et Usine Rassuen, France

Souad Mani Strates de l'incertitude | 2022 Vidéos, 15’:42’’ Usine Rassuen, France

"Le triptyque joue avec la collecte de données environnementales et leur esthétique, ainsi qu'avec les glitches conçus comme un mécanisme non performant qui ouvre des possibilités de créer de nouvelles réalités. D’un côté, il y a les images prises à l’usine de ArcelorMittal, en pleine activité, que l’artiste filme pendant la nuit. En réaction à un lieu surexposé à la pollution et bruyant, Mani en collaboration avec le développeur associé, Romain Papion, choisissent d’ajouter les valeurs de gaz et de température à la vidéo à travers des logiciels de développement et créer une interaction entre vidéo et données scientifiques. Le résultat est une altération qui produit des glitches, des erreurs, des datas corrompus et “donne à voir un monde flottant et effondré” - Souad Mani. Au milieu du triptyque, il y a les courbes, des dessins abstraits qui sont chargés de valeurs scientifiques et numériques. Elles représentent les taux d'humidité, de gaz, de pression, de températures enregistrées à travers MOTTY un objet réalisé par le duo, WUJUD (Souad Mani & Romain Papion) et connecté en évolution. De l’autre côté, l’usine de Rassuen, abandonnée depuis vingt ans, devient pour l’artiste un lieu de découverte archéologique. Paradoxalement, les séquences filmées la nuit évoquent les grains et la réalité physique de l’image analogique, source d’un milieu à repenser." Marianna Liosi