John Walker Motson, OBE was an English football commentator. Beginning as a television commentator with the BBC in 1971, he commentated on over 2000 games on television and radio. From the late 1970s to 2008, Motson was the dominant football commentary figure at the BBC, apart from a brief spell in the mid-1990s.

Motson was educated at Culford School, near Bury St Edmunds. Culford is a public school where football was generally frowned upon at the time; rugby union, field hockey, and cricket were the main sports for pupils. In 1963, his career began as a newspaper reporter in Chipping Barnet. In 1967 and 1968 he worked for the Sheffield Morning Telegraph where he first covered football.

John Motson children: Meet Frederick Motson

Frederick Motson was born in 1986 and he is currently 37 years old. He is the son of the late famous English football commentator John Motson and his wife Anne Motson. The couple was married for 45 years and they lived in Little Brickhill in Buckinghamshire before the cold hands of death took John Motson on February 23, 2023.

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