JAMES ALEXANDER GORDON, the voice of BBC Radio’s classified football results, is to retire.
Gordon, who has read the results for 40 years since starting in 1973, recently had surgery to remove his larynx after he was diagnosed with cancer.
The 77-year-old was synonymous with Saturday afternoons for football fans of a certain generation who tuned in to Sports Report for a full run down of the day’s scores.
Even after the rise and spread of televised football coverage, Gordon remained a firm favourite and part of many fans’ routines.
“It’s with great sorrow that I have to give up the most exciting part of my career, the classified football results,” he said today. “They have been my life.”
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It’s all very confusing! I’m lost!
What an inept shower, why shouldn’t the best athlete go?
It’s such a mess….imagine the heartbreak for both girls !!
Messy
Great news I felt so sorry for her after she took part in the media launch of the Irish team.
The Nationals were a couple of weeks ago in santry, the best placed out of the two could’ve went instead of all this appeal and counter appeal. Or at least this should’ve been done weeks ago. Farce
This is a great result for Catriona but a bit of a joke as regards Irish Athletics. They should have sent Jessie Barr to run the hurdles and included the others on the relay team. Problem solved and none of this BS.
It dont matter who goes, none of them are any good lets be honest.
Why don’t you race 400M and find out how good they are.
I would beat them if I had a pair of runners.