Clive Tyldesley

Clive Tyldesley (born 21 August 1954) is an English television sports broadcaster. He has been ITV's senior football commentator since the retirement of Brian Moore following the 1998 World Cup final. In that role, he has led the ITV commentary team at the subsequent 4 World Cups and 4 European Championships, and been lead commentator on the last 17 UEFA Champions League finals as well as taking the microphone at 9 FA Cup finals for ITV. He won the prestigious Royal Television Society Sports Commentator of the Year in 1998, 2000, 2002 and 2005, and was voted the Sony Radio Awards' Sports Broadcaster of the Year in 1983.

Career

Tyldesley was born in Radcliffe, Lancashire and was educated at Bury Grammar School, Kirkham Grammar School and the University of Nottingham. He obtained an honours degree in Industrial Economics, but always wanted to pursue a career in sports commentating. In June 1975, he began his broadcast career straight from university with Radio Trent in Nottingham, where he became their regular Nottingham Forest reporter. In April 1977, he joined Radio City in Liverpool and remained there for the next 12 years. After succeeding Elton Welsby as City's sports editor, he covered the successes of Everton and Liverpool through the late 1970s and 1980s. Tyldesley was on-air at the scene of the Heysel disaster in 1985, but did not attend Liverpool's tragic FA Cup semi-final at Hillsborough in 1989. He was heavily involved in City's coverage of the aftermath of the disaster. A teenage Liverpool fan that Clive had met and encouraged in his ambition to become a commentator, Ian Whelan, was among the 96 victims.

Tyldesley

Coordinates: 53°31′00″N 2°28′00″W / 53.5166°N 2.4667°W / 53.5166; -2.4667

Tyldesley (/ˈtɪlzliː/ or /ˈtɪlsliː/) is a town in in the Metropolitan Borough of Wigan in Greater Manchester, England. It is north of Chat Moss near the foothills of the West Pennine Moors, 7.7 miles (12.4 km) east-southeast of Wigan and 8.9 miles (14.3 km) west-northwest of Manchester. At the United Kingdom Census 2001, Tyldesley including the outlying areas of Astley, Shakerley, Mosley Common and New Manchester, had a population of 34,000. In 2011 the Tyldesley ward of Wigan Council had a population of 14,341.

Historically in Lancashire, Tyldesley and its surroundings have provided evidence for the remains of a Roman road passing through the township on its ancient course between Coccium (Wigan) and Mamucium (Manchester). Following the Anglo-Saxon invasion of Britain, Tyldesley was part of the manor of Warrington, until the Norman conquest of England, when the settlement constituted a township called Tyldesley-with-Shakerley in the ancient parish of Leigh.

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