The Game meets Martin Tyler
The Game
The Times
3.2 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 22 December 2018
⏱️ 54 minutes
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Summary
In a special episode, Alyson Rudd sits down at Sky Sports with the voice of football - Martin Tyler.
We talk about Martin's days as a non-league striker at Wealdstone, his beginnings in broadcasting and the mechanics and workings of his commentary career. Whether he's stressed in Seville or lauding Rickie Lambert, this is the story of an iconic figure within the game we love as we discuss what makes Tyler tick.
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| 0:00.0 | Attention at all passengers. You can now book your train tickets on Uber and get 10% back in Uber credits to spend on your next train journey. |
| 0:11.0 | So no excuses not to visit your in-laws this Christmas. |
| 0:16.5 | Trains now on Uber. T's and C's apply check the game podcast. This is a podcast special and my special guest is Martin Tyler, the illustrious football commentator at Sky Sports. |
| 0:42.0 | Welcome Martin. I say welcome, but we're in the Sky Sports. Welcome, Martin. |
| 0:43.0 | I say welcome, but we're in the Sky Studios. |
| 0:45.0 | You should be welcoming me, really. |
| 0:47.0 | Well, you're here probably more than I am. |
| 0:49.0 | I'm on the road all the time. |
| 0:50.0 | That's true. |
| 0:51.0 | We see each other mostly at football grounds don't we? |
| 0:53.2 | Yeah. |
| 0:53.7 | And what do you shout out when you see me? |
| 0:55.7 | I shout Ali the First Lady of football. |
| 0:58.2 | Well we've got that on record so I'm happy. |
| 0:59.7 | We can we can we can wrap up now. |
| 1:01.5 | Anyway, um, when we watch on my sofa at home, when we watch Sky Sports, which we do a lot, the thing that we love most about you in my house is you saying and it's live and I want you to tell me how |
| 1:15.8 | teach me how to say it the way you say it because I don't think any other |
| 1:19.6 | commentator makes the link between wait for it it's coming up. |
| 1:24.0 | I think I've rather cornered the market on that phrase and they can't use it I'm sure they would love to use it. |
| 1:32.0 | The truth is when I started |
| 1:33.6 | commentating on football it was all recorded. So I was sort of midway into my |
| 1:38.4 | career when live football happened on a regular basis when I joined what became Sky in 1990. |
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