About the Author

Born in Lancashire in 1954, Clive Tyldesley is a television sports broadcaster. He was ITV's senior football commentator for twenty-two years, succeeding Brian Moore after the 1998 World Cup final. In that role, he led the commentary team at the subsequent five World Cups and five European Championships. He has taken the microphone at twenty-two UEFA Champions League finals as well as eleven FA Cup finals. He won the prestigious Royal Television Society Sports Commentator of the Year in 1998, 2000, 2002 and 2005, and was voted the Sony Radio Awards' Sports Broadcaster of the Year in 1983.