Clive Tyldesley has spent 50 years in football. He started out as a teaboy at Radio Trent in 1975 and worked his way up to the very top, covering five World Cups and five European Championships for ITV.
For a certain generation he will always be remembered for Wednesday night Champions League games on ITV in the 1990s. Like the best players, he rose to the occasion. During the biggest match of his career he gave us two iconic lines – “name on the trophy” and “they always score” – in the space of two minutes. Simple, to the point and bang on the money.
Tyldesley’s career has moved in tandem with the fortunes of England’s greatest football clubs. He was in Nottingham in the 1970s when Brian Cough was holding court at Forest; he joined Radio City in Liverpool as the two Merseyside clubs started racking up titles; and he moved to Granada in 1989 just as Alex Ferguson was finding his feet at Manchester United.
His experience goes way beyond the confines of English football. Tyldesley has covered rugby league and cricket; he has lent his voice to PlayStation games and Ant & Dec’s Saturday Night Takeway; and he even presented a podcast with his old mate Martin O’Neill – who was playing for Forest 50 years ago.
Think of a big occasion in football over the last half-century and he was probably there. So, what do you want to know?
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