12 Facts About Gerald Sinstadt

Gerald Morris Sinstadt was an English sports commentator, broadcaster and newspaper columnist, usually on football.

Gerald Sinstadt moved into television in the mid-1960s with Anglia Television.

Gerald Sinstadt presented the Friday evening Granada football magazine preview show Kick Off, and then over the weekend commentated on matches, usually involving Liverpool, Manchester City, Everton and Manchester United which from 1975 until he left were broadcast in Kick Off Match, Granada's regional variation of ITV's The Big Match.

Gerald Sinstadt covered numerous other clubs such as Blackpool, Bolton Wanderers and Preston North End.

Gerald Sinstadt covered four World Cups for ITV, from 1970 in Mexico to 1982 in Spain, with the main matches he covered including the live 1978 third-place play-off between Brazil and Italy, and the 1982 semi-final between France and West Germany.

Gerald Sinstadt was part of the ITV team at the European Championships in Italy in 1980.

Gerald Sinstadt was ITV's number three commentator behind Brian Moore and Hugh Johns, covering the UEFA Cup finals in 1974 and 1976 and the 1978 League Cup Final replay between Nottingham Forest and Liverpool in 1978.

Gerald Sinstadt rejoined the BBC in the mid-1980s, working as a reporter and commentator for Football Focus and Match of the Day.

Gerald Sinstadt appeared in the Jimmy McGovern television docu-drama Hillsborough, about the football tragedy, having been a BBC television reporter at the stadium while the disaster unfolded seven years earlier.

Well into the 2000s Gerald Sinstadt continued to report from football grounds for BBC Sport's Final Score programme, broadcast on Saturday afternoons on BBC One and the BBC's interactive digital service.

Gerald Sinstadt lived in Stoke-on-Trent and remained actively involved in football, as a Staffordshire member of the FA Council and as vice-chairman of the North Staffordshire Youth League.

Gerald Sinstadt died on 10 November 2021, at the age of 91.