James Alexander Gordon

[Silver Sean]

Surprised no one else has started a thread on this true voice of a generation. 40 years of hearing the music for sport's report followed by him reading the football scores. His voice always made me think of blustery Autumn Saturday afternoons with the darkness drawing in, dead leaves scudding across wind-blown parks as you headed back to the car after the game or headed home from the playing field for a crumpet in front of the fire. Another piece of my life that has gone forever. Getting older really does mean learning to let go eh?
So long JAG and thanks for putting a soundtrack to all those years of 'Liverpool two, Nottingham Forest nil', and Sunderland one, Liverpool three' etc.

 

[Athens]

Did he work for Sky?

 

[jimmy]

RIP.

Used to listen to him every saturday evening on the BBC world service - long before the multi channel TV and Internet days.
And indeed we used to be on the winning side.

 

[gkmacca]

Life nil, Death one.

 

[localny]

https://audioboo.fm/boos/451178-james-alexander-gordon-classified-results

 

[localny]

Who was it who did the tv results as they came in on the bbc screen on Saturday afternoon?

Deeper voice. Cowdenbeath 5, queen of the south 1

 

[Jack D Rips]

As soon as he gave the score of the home team you knew the result.

 

[Frogfish]

High tone : Airdrie 3 Low tone : Forfar 1
High tone no pause for effect : Chelsea 1 Arsenal 1

Loved him, a voice from my childhood I'll never forget (unless the 'you-know-what' gets me).

RIP and Thanks.

 

[gkmacca]

It got to the point where one would try to guess from the rhythms what the score was. Oh, the tension!

 

[gkmacca]

Who was it who did the tv results as they came in on the bbc screen on Saturday afternoon?

Deeper voice. Cowdenbeath 5, queen of the south 1

Len Martin for years and years, then Tim Gudgin.

 

[Judge Jules]

Tim Gudgin was poor IMHO. His intonation bore no relation to the results and he had some kind of inexplicable difficulty with the word "nil", which came out as a hurried, half-strangulated "nurl".

 

[doctor_mac]

Who was it who did the tv results as they came in on the bbc screen on Saturday afternoon?

Deeper voice. Cowdenbeath 5, queen of the south 1

It was him ye buck eejit.
The classic was East Fife 5....Forfar 4