oh no , just switched channels , PERSAD now doing wimbledon

It’s hard to imagine Mr. Poor sod gets all these
Gigs for his natural ability or interviewing skills, hmmmm ??

Tennis,snooker,racing,golf,bowls ,olympic showjumping .

He did Cricket for Channel 4 too

Good old Groucho.  Wouldn’t join any club that would have him as a member.

persad is your modern dat barry davis,like davis go to olympics commentate on the 1st badminton match he,s seen in his life and crack on as though he,s been watching it 3 nights a week ,twice on sundays for last 30 yrs

He must have a great agent, some fantastic gigs. tbf he has gradually improved and ok nowadays. He used to be quite arrogant when commentating on RacingUK in not a nice way.

The turning point was probably the interview at Ascot in circa 2009 when he asked Sir Henry if he was in 'tip top health" and Sir Henry (who looked quite grey) responded "I’ve felt better... but I am live" and to try and extract himself from the cringeworthy interview tried to walk away. The next Sir Henry interview I saw with Nick Luck was totally professional in comparison.

fair play , barry davis was an excellent commentator

I agree Storm.  He has improved but still needs a bit of polish.

i saw the docu of barry davis on bbc and to be fair to him he didnt want to do the olympic thing,didnt think he new enough about the sports they wanted him to commentate but producers and his friends,peers convinced him he could do it

I think you're forgetting about Arthur Montford there,Loyal honcho..

brian moore and THE BIG MATCH was the daddy

he was the jeff stelling of his day getting the best out of THE DOOOOUG,allinson,mcnab,cloughie etc on world cup/euro panels

i hated motson myself, stinstadt was super doing the morth west matches, and hugh johns the midland games

here in the north east our 3,4 times a yr getting THE BIG MATCH because a north east club was playing in london was like xmas day,our normal offering was GEORGE TAYLOR dojng SHOOT, before every goal the action stopped went back to george in studio and he told you to look out for this goal,and they returned to the action and goal, TYNE TEES sky + and pause 50yrs early

Barry v Motty
https://player.fm/series/nessun-dorma-retro-football-podcast/s1-ep7-barry-vs-motty

1 ST TIME POSTER. i dont recall nothing of the prog itself but you might like this .    The old TTTV logo and (right) Kathy Secker with a classic 70's frock and bouffant. No doubt introducing Shoot! to an expectant public (around November time by the look of the poppy...).

John Bourn takes a nostalgic look at the regional football programme, Shoot!.

When Tyne Tees first started covering football, with Saturday night highlights in the early Sixties, "Shoot" seemed a snappy and appropriate title for the programme. It was one which would continue for another 20 years and also be adopted by an even more long-running juvenile football weekly.

Early coverage used film cameras, with the ever-present risk that a goal might be scored whilst the film was being changed. Tyne Tees later acquired a more professional outside broadcast unit, but "Shoot" never entirely shook off its shoestring image.

The programme's first commentator was George Taylor, TTTV's long-serving Sports Editor, and someone still involved in football today, as head of Player Liaison at Newcastle United FC. He was succeeded by David Taylor, a somewhat mysterious commentary choice, as Taylor was a straight journalist who later went on to report for "World In Action". Taylor took the helm throughout the early Seventies, bowing out at the end of the 1973-74 season, his last commentary was a 1-1 draw between Newcastle and Birmingham.

In the late Sixties "Shoot" had moved to its more familiar Sunday afternoon slot. For younger readers who have grown up on Sky Sports and endless live matches, in those innocent days, live coverage was reserved for the FA Cup Final and occasional internationals.

Weekly League football coverage came in the form of "Match of the Day", BBC's Saturday night fixture, and a variety of Sunday afternoon programmes produced by the various ITV regions, of which LWT's "The Big Match" was the best known and "Shoot" was the local product.

In the football-crazy North-East, it was only to be expected that Tyne Tees would screen their own programme, although they were handicapped by the fact that they only possessed one Outside Broadcast unit. When this was required for racing coverage from Newcastle (screened on Saturday afternoon's "World of Sport"), Tyne Tees were unable to cover a local match, and viewers were treated instead to the glitzy "The Big Match".

With only 3 main teams in the area, Newcastle, Sunderland and Middlesbrough, the choice of fixture to screen virtually selected itself. ITV's contract with the League to cover football did however require them to broadcast at least two Third or Fourth Division games each season. Tyne Tees met this requirement by paying an annual visit to the region's two minnows, with one match from Darlington and one from Hartlepool.

Whereas "The Big Match" exuded all the glamour of the King's Road, featuring 3 games, slow-motion replays, studio discussion and celebrity guests (such as a pre-Watford Elton John), "Shoot" was a much more humble affair. The 55 minute programme featured just the one local match, irrespective of quality. One programme devoted its entire length to coverage of a dire goalless draw between Darlington and Barnsley!

There were no slow-motion replays, indeed no replays of any kind, unless a goal was scored, in which case a normal speed replay was shown. There were no on-screen graphics such as team line-ups and no studio was used. The commentator topped and tailed the programme from the ground of the game chosen, generally concluding with a short interview with one of the players or the home manager. Mysteriously, the "TV Times" would claim that the interviewer was Ian Edwards (a Tyne Tees sports presenter, who later became Sports Correspondent for ITN) although in practice, the interviews were always conducted by the match commentator.

Occasionally, where a match involving a local side had been filmed by another ITV region, this would be shown as a second game, a very welcome bonus, especially if the main game was a drab one.

For the fan in those days, the weekend really seemed to start on Friday night, when George Taylor presented "Sportstime" at 10.30, a weekly show largely devoted to a goal-filled preview of the weekend's football. With the Friday night horror film following it, this was the ideal way to begin the weekend.

Come Sunday and "Shoot" normally began at around 2pm or a few minutes after, following "Farming Outlook". I sat through many discussions about sugar beet yields or swine vesicular disease, waiting impatiently for the football to start. The programme was invariably followed by the "Sunday Matinee", usually some creaky B-picture from the 1950s. Later, Alas Smith and Jones and The Golden Shot would also feature as classic Sunday afternoon viewing.

At the beginning of the 1974-75 season, Tyne Tees announced a major coup. Veteran BBC football commentator Kenneth Wolstenholme, famed for his "they think it's all over - it is now!" 1966 World Cup commentary, had been signed up as their new commentator. Wolstenholme had lost his commentary slot with the BBC in the early Seventies because they thought his style "old-fashioned". It was certainly that. He resisted the trend towards excessive excitement and hyperbole, and so fitted in well with "Shoot!"s slightly archaic production values. There were occasional blunders - Newcastle midfielders Tommy Craig and Geoff Nulty were once spliced into a hybrid called "Tommy Nulty" - but generally his work was professional and good-humoured. If Hartlepool v Workington at a wintry Victoria Ground seemed a long way from the 1970 World Cup in sun-kissed Mexico, then he did not show it.

My favourite bit of Wolstenholme commentary came when the station screened a 4-2 away win for Jack Charlton's effervescent young Middlesbrough side at Newcastle [14/01/1978]. As promising striker Stan Cummins broke away to grab the fourth, Ken reached back into his distant childhood for an appropriate schoolroom metaphor : "That gives him ten out of ten and one for neatness!"

By now, Tyne Tees had at last dragged their coverage into the modern era. The programme was now presented from the City Road studio, initially by David Burton and subsequently by George Taylor. The local game was supplemented by two other matches and the wonders of slow-motion replays were introduced.

But on the commentary front, all was not well. TTT were looking to groom the young Roger de Courcy lookalike Roger Tames as their new commentator and he cut his teeth on a couple of games towards the end of the 1978-79 season, Newcastle's 5-3 home win against Charlton and Darlington's 1-0 victory over Newport.

The tennis interviews are pointless. All they say is how great their opponent was, how great the crowd was blah blah blah. You could play a recorded message.

I don't think much of Persad. For me has always come across as being much too smug. I do prefer him to Balding. Can you imagine that she actually grew up being excited by rugby league? Just a case of doing a bit of homework and taking the gigs.

cheers elisjohn could have been me writing that as those were my exact memories,but the writer must have been a part timers because as well as watching farming outlook ,i always remember watching an hr of brian walden ,world at one ,longing for it to end ,
i cant remember watching it on a sat night,it was sunday by the time i watched it, GEORGE TAYLOR died about 2 yrs ago and got a good send off on local news