2018.06.17 莫特 足球解说员

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John Walker Motson, OBE, also known as Motty, has been commentating on football since 1971. He covered more than 2000 games on television and radio, including all the major football championships, 29 FA Cup finals (with an additional five replays), 10 World Cups, 10 European Championships and 200 England games. At the age of 72 he's just retired.

Known not only for his footballing knowledge and his voice, he is often recognised by his knee-length sheepskin coat. His passion for football was ignited by his father, a Methodist minister for 40 years, who on his one day off each week would take his only son to watch football. The first game John attended was at Charlton Athletic when he was seven, and the excitement of it inspired him to create scrapbooks of footballing facts and collect match programmes.

After five years at boarding school, where he wasn't allowed to play football, he left at 16 after one term doing A levels. He joined the Barnet Press as a trainee reporter and then moved onto the Sheffield Telegraph. When BBC Radio Sheffield, one of the first six local radio stations, came on air, he was one of the reporters pulled in to give match summaries. He then moved to the BBC as a sports assistant in radio, before joining the Match of the Day team on television.

He has been supported in his career by his solicitor wife, Annie, who meticulously kept details of every match in thick A4 books which John used for his preparation. He was awarded an OBE for services to football and in May 2018 he was honoured by BAFTA with a Special Award for his lifetime's work.



约翰-沃克-莫特森（John Walker Motson），OBE，也被称为莫特，自1971年以来一直从事足球评论工作。他在电视和广播中报道了2000多场比赛，包括所有主要的足球锦标赛、29场足总杯决赛（另有5场重播）、10场世界杯、10场欧锦赛和200场英格兰比赛。在72岁的时候，他刚刚退役。

他不仅因其足球知识和声音而闻名，还经常因其过膝的羊皮大衣而被人认出。他对足球的热情是由他的父亲点燃的，他的父亲是一位有40年历史的卫理公会牧师，每周有一天的休息时间，他会带他唯一的儿子去看足球。约翰参加的第一场比赛是在查尔顿竞技队，当时他才7岁，这种激动人心的场面激发了他制作足球知识剪贴簿和收集比赛方案的热情。

他在寄宿学校学习了五年，在那里他不被允许踢足球，16岁时他在做完一个学期的A级考试后离开。他加入了巴内特报社，成为一名实习记者，然后转到谢菲尔德电讯报社。当BBC谢菲尔德电台（最早的六家地方电台之一）开始广播时，他是被拉去做比赛总结的记者之一。随后，他转到BBC担任电台的体育助理，然后加入了电视上的 "每日比赛 "团队。

他的职业生涯得到了他的律师妻子安妮的支持，她把每场比赛的细节都一丝不苟地记在厚厚的A4纸上，约翰用它来做准备。他因对足球的服务而被授予OBE，2018年5月，他因其一生的工作而被BAFTA授予特别奖。