KELLY’S HEROES
English commentators have, historically, been a reserved bunch. The finest from these shores – from Kenneth Wolstenholme to Barry Davies, Brian Moore to Martin Tyler – all typically showed a rather comforting self-supervision to the game as increasingly excitable co-commentators swirled around them, an internal belt that stopped the trousers from falling down even in the most dramatic of moments. Perhaps even especially in the most dramatic of moments. “You have to say that’s magnificent,” is probably not what the Argentinian commentators were bellowing when Diego Maradona rounded Peter Shilton in 1986 after his solo run, but Davies’ commentary was still inimitably perfect.
