Clive Tyldesley was born on 21 August 1954 and is an English television sports broadcaster.
21 Facts About Clive Tyldesley
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Clive Tyldesley was ITV's senior football commentator from 1998 until 2020.
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Clive Tyldesley's career began as a teaboy at Nottingham's Radio Trent in 1975, joining the sports team within weeks, and began covering Brian Clough's Nottingham Forest.
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Clive Tyldesley commentated on four European Cup finals involving Liverpool, reporting live on the Heysel Stadium disaster before the final in 1985.
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Clive Tyldesley chronicled Everton's successes in the mid-1980s and reported extensively on the aftermath of the Hillsborough disaster.
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Clive Tyldesley did record a commentary on the match, but failed to notice that a Spanish shot that hit the underside of the bar and crossed the line had not been given as a goal and did not realise that a Brazilian goal had been disallowed.
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Clive Tyldesley commentated on the 1989 FIFA U-16 World Championship for Eurosport.
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Clive Tyldesley joined Granada full-time in 1989, initially as a reporter and occasional presenter on their Kick Off and Granada Soccer Night programmes before succeeding Martin Tyler as their main football commentator in 1990.
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Clive Tyldesley was a regular voice on rugby league, with Granada beginning live coverage of the Stones Bitter Championship that season.
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Clive Tyldesley received an offer to join the BBC's sports department in London in the summer of 1992, a need for new voices driven by the return of Match Of The Day to a weekly slot after the acquisition of rights to show highlights of the new Premier League.
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The first match commentary Clive Tyldesley delivered was on 5th September 1992, covering Queen's Park Rangers v Ipswich Town.
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Clive Tyldesley rejoined ITV in August 1996 as an understudy to Brian Moore.
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Clive Tyldesley commentated on every Champions League final between 1998 and 2015 for ITV.
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Clive Tyldesley was ITV's lead commentator at the European Championships from 2000 to 2016 and the World Cup finals between 2002 and 2018.
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Clive Tyldesley is a regular commentator on Amazon Prime Video's live coverage of the Premier League.
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Clive Tyldesley carried out his final commentary work for ITV at UEFA Euro 2024, specifically, the last-16 match between Germany and Denmark.
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In July 2023, Clive Tyldesley stepped down from his role as a commentator on Talksport.
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Clive Tyldesley has been a patron of the Bobby Moore Bowel Cancer Fund since 2010.
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Clive Tyldesley has provided commentary for a number of video games, including the EA Sports FIFA series 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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In June 2024, Clive Tyldesley began co-hosting 'The Football Authorities' podcast alongside his close friend Martin O'Neill.