20 Facts About Clive Tyldesley

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Clive Tyldesley was born on 21 August 1954 and is an English television sports broadcaster.

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Clive Tyldesley was ITV's senior football commentator from 1998 until 2020.

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Clive Tyldesley 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.

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Clive Tyldesley obtained an honours degree in Industrial Economics, but always wanted to pursue a career in sports commentating.

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Clive Tyldesley was on-air at the scene of the Heysel Stadium disaster in 1985 but did not attend Liverpool's tragic FA Cup semi-final at Hillsborough in 1989.

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Clive Tyldesley was heavily involved in City's coverage of the aftermath of the disaster.

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For much of his radio career, Clive Tyldesley had contributed match reports to ITV's World of Sport programme.

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Clive Tyldesley became their main football commentator and worked as a reporter and occasional presenter on their Kick Off and Granada Soccer Night programmes.

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Clive Tyldesley became ITV's rugby league commentator in the north-west alongside Hull FC coach Brian Smith, and worked with Martin Tyler and Fred Trueman as a cricket commentator on Granada's coverage of Roses matches.

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Clive Tyldesley's commentaries were now being broadcast on ITV network programmes, and he was chosen to be part of their commentary team at the 1990 FIFA World Cup in Italy.

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Clive Tyldesley received an offer to join the BBC's sports department in London in the summer of 1992.

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Clive Tyldesley rejoined ITV in August 1996 as an understudy to Brian Moore, who he often cites, along with Motson and Reg Gutteridge, as the greatest influences on his commentary career.

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When Moore retired in 1998 following that year's World Cup final, Clive Tyldesley became the network's lead football commentator.

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Clive Tyldesley has commentated on every Champions League final since 1998 for ITV, including dramatic successes for Liverpool and Chelsea as well as Manchester United.

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Clive Tyldesley has been ITV's lead commentator at each European Championships since 2000 and World Cup since 2002.

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Clive Tyldesley says his only career disappointments were three unsuccessful interviews for BBC Radio Sport during the 1980s.

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Clive Tyldesley says his own personal favourite sports commentators are Pat Summerall and Brian Johnston.

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Clive Tyldesley has provided commentary for a number of video games, including notably the EA Sports FIFA series along with Andy Gray starting with FIFA 06, and running until FIFA 17.

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Clive Tyldesley provided commentary for Championship Manager 2, the last in the franchise to feature verbal analysis, and the PlayStation video games This is Football and FA Premier League Stars 2001.

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Clive Tyldesley has been host of the International Electronic Games Conference as part of the Edinburgh Festival on two occasions.