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Brian Moore Saved Our Sundays and LWT at The Valley

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  • seth plum
    seth plum Posts: 53,448
    A young Martin Tyler on the right?
  • DaveMehmet
    DaveMehmet Posts: 21,598
    mattaddick said:
    Here is another picture I used in the book (among dozens of exclusive photos I was given by the families of many commentators of old like Brian Moore, Hugh Johns and Gerald Sinstadt). If you can name more than two people in this shot, I will be very impressed.
    Graham Garden?
  • mattaddick
    mattaddick Posts: 655
    Lordflashheart said:
    mattaddick said:
    Here is another picture I used in the book (among dozens of exclusive photos I was given by the families of many commentators of old like Brian Moore, Hugh Johns and Gerald Sinstadt). If you can name more than two people in this shot, I will be very impressed.
    Is one of them Harry Carpenter ?
    ‘Fraid not 
  • Big William
    Big William Posts: 3,839
    Gerry Harrison?
  • charlton4ever
    charlton4ever Posts: 1,716
    2nd from left really looks like my late Uncle Bernard?
  • mattaddick
    mattaddick Posts: 655
    seth plum said:
    A young Martin Tyler on the right?
    No I'm afraid not.
  • mattaddick
    mattaddick Posts: 655
    DaveMehmet said:
    mattaddick said:
    Here is another picture I used in the book (among dozens of exclusive photos I was given by the families of many commentators of old like Brian Moore, Hugh Johns and Gerald Sinstadt). If you can name more than two people in this shot, I will be very impressed.
    Graham Garden?
    Does look a bit like him but no.
  • mattaddick
    mattaddick Posts: 655
    Here's an easier one: Big William said:
    Gerry Harrison?
    Fraid not William - though I did interview him for the book and his recollections of covering that fabulous Ipswich side of the 1970s and early 80s was great to hear.
  • ElfsborgAddick
    ElfsborgAddick Posts: 29,032
    Peter Brackley
  • clive
    clive Posts: 19,454
    Hugh Johns
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  • SoundAsa£
    SoundAsa£ Posts: 22,477
    Lordflashheart said:
    mattaddick said:
    Here is another picture I used in the book (among dozens of exclusive photos I was given by the families of many commentators of old like Brian Moore, Hugh Johns and Gerald Sinstadt). If you can name more than two people in this shot, I will be very impressed.
    Is one of them Harry Carpenter ?
    No.
  • BrentfordAddick
    BrentfordAddick Posts: 1,460
    edited June 2024
    Good book, this
  • mattaddick
    mattaddick Posts: 655
    BrentfordAddick said:
    Good book, this
    Thanks I’m glad you’re enjoying it. Hope it takes you back! 
  • mattaddick
    mattaddick Posts: 655
    Don't know if this link will work but I was on the Hawksbee and Jacobs show yesterday discussing the book. Unfortunately I couldn't shoe horn a reference to Charlton in.

    https://wetransfer.com/downloads/3b1434c982e391492ce41dae53f5dc9d20240626154145/824284ea8fc0401d91695ccf6ade96d020240626154145/eef962
  • Simonsen
    Simonsen Posts: 5,502
    mattaddick said:
    Simonsen said:
    Isawsummersplay said:
    I was fortunate to know Brian well, and can only endorse what others have said, in that he was one of the nicest people I have ever met. Looking forward to reading this book.
    I would have loved to have met him. For me, he was the voice of London football and his enthusiasm for the game just shone through. No cliches, no silly attempts with "clever" humour.....just talked about the football and got genuinely excited by what he saw.

    Watching any of those games, you could say Brian Moore had a soft-spot for every London club and I think he really did. The feeling was mutual....he was the best. 
    I will pass that on to this sons, Chris and Simon. 
    Thanks Matt....that's lovely mate.
  • Simonsen
    Simonsen Posts: 5,502
    Seth has hit the nail on the head. Brian Moore totally respected the players for their efforts alone, irrespective of their ability or the outcome of the action. He made the game about the players, managers and the action....nothing more.

    Sadly, it's a style that has become unfashionable these days, as analysts pick every action apart....with a lot of "the keeper should do better there" type comments. As if players are machines and should all be able to play 90 mins at a faultless level.

    A lot of the joy seems to have been lost now but it still comes through on all those old Brian Moore commentaries. One man's style & enthusiasm, allowing the viewer to feel that they were at the match themselves. That's some skill. 

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