17 Facts About Martin Tyler

Martin Tyler was born on 14 September 1945 and is an English football commentator and semi-professional football coach.

Martin Tyler has worked as a commentator for Sky Sports since 1990, covering the Premier League and UEFA Champions League, as well as other domestic and international competitions.

Martin Tyler provided his voice to the football video game series FIFA from 2005 until 2019.

Martin Tyler was ghostwriter on football pundit Jimmy Hill's column in The Times and reported matches under his own name for that paper.

Martin Tyler's job was solely a production role, but at one match he did his own commentary on a tape recorder and handed it in to his bosses expecting, and indeed initially gaining, little response.

In 1976, Martin Tyler moved to Yorkshire Television and began to make an impression on ITV Sport bosses, who included him in the team for the 1978 World Cup.

From 1983 ITV began to show live Football League matches, with Martin Tyler involved in several such broadcasts over the next seven years.

Martin Tyler's voice was still heard on ITV for another two years as they carried the commentaries he provided for the Football League's overseas broadcasts.

When he is not working for Sky, Martin Tyler can be heard commentating for Premier League Productions, the Premier League's production arm which is responsible for producing, packaging and broadcasting the matches for the Premier League's international broadcast partners.

Since 1990, Martin Tyler has been the main voice for broadcasts on the Australian television network SBS for World Cup, Euro Football Championship and European club competition matches as well as a number of Australian international matches.

However, on 8 January 2014, ESPN and Martin Tyler announced they had mutually agreed to part ways ahead of the 2014 World Cup so that he can focus on Premier League games live on Sky Sports.

Martin Tyler has worked for Screensport, commentating on the Freight Rover Trophy Area in 1985 and the Screensport Super Cup in 1986, as well as several South American qualifying matches for the 1990 World Cup.

Between 1986 and 1990, Martin Tyler was a regular voice on Octagon CSI's international feed of Serie A along with Peter Brackley.

Martin Tyler contributed to Granada TV's cricket coverage of Roses Match's throughout his time there, and described action from live netball for ITV's World of Sport.

Martin Tyler was the default commentator for the FIFA video game series from 2005 to 2020, alongside Andy Gray between 2005 and 2010 and Alan Smith from 2011 to 2020.

Martin Tyler appeared in the 2005 movie Goal as a commentator.

Martin Tyler has worked as a coach for a number of teams managed by Alan Dowson.