Kenneth Wolstenholme's family were Primitive Methodists and his brother attended Elmfield College.
15 Facts About Kenneth Wolstenholme
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Kenneth Wolstenholme began his career as a journalist with a newspaper in Manchester.
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Kenneth Wolstenholme completed more than 100 highly hazardous sorties over Occupied Europe and in May 1944 was awarded the DFC.
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Kenneth Wolstenholme finished the war as an acting squadron leader, having spent its last stages working in the RAF's public relations department.
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Kenneth Wolstenholme covered the 1959 All-Ireland Senior Hurling Championship Final between Kilkenny and Waterford for BBC Television, an experience which moved him to describe hurling as his second-favourite sport in the world after his first love, football.
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Kenneth Wolstenholme commentated on many English domestic football games of the 1950s and 1960s, including the first ever game featured on Match of the Day in 1964.
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Kenneth Wolstenholme covered the FA Cup final in 1951 and then every year from 1953 to 1971, the year of Arsenal's "double".
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Kenneth Wolstenholme was the BBC's main man at the 1970 World Cup but he almost took out an injunction when the BBC threatened to demote him in favour of David Coleman if England reached the final.
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Kenneth Wolstenholme left the corporation in 1971 after Coleman was installed as the BBC's top commentator, his final BBC commentary being on the 1971 European Cup Final between Ajax and Panathinaikos at Wembley Stadium.
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Kenneth Wolstenholme later commentated for Tyne Tees Television in the mid to late 1970s, but re-appeared on TV to provide reports and occasional features for Channel 4 when they earned rights in the early 1990s to show Serie A games from Italy.
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Kenneth Wolstenholme took on an acting role, appearing in the BBC Radio 4 comedy series Lenin of the Rovers in 1988 as football commentator Frank Lee Brian.
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Kenneth Wolstenholme, who had been a supporter of Bolton Wanderers since childhood, was a guest of honour at the club's final game at Burnden Park in April 1997.
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Kenneth Wolstenholme narrated the club's End of an Era video which was released as part of Bolton's move from Burnden Park to the Reebok Stadium.
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In 1998, Kenneth Wolstenholme made a special appearance in EA Sports' videogame World Cup 98, as the sole commentator on the game's classic World Cup matches, recreations of historic World Cup finals that included sepia-toned renditions of the 1930 and 1938 editions.
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Kenneth Wolstenholme's phrase was used as the title for the sports quiz programme They Think It's All Over.