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Spiers meets match in Motson
Don’t be surprised to see Times’ Scottish football correspondent, Graham Spiers, resplendent in a sheepskin coat at a football match near you. He’s just back from interviewing recently-retired television match commentator, John Motson - forever associated with said item of clothing - for BBC Radio Scotland.‘Child of the Manse’ is a six-part series being compiled by Spiers, who is the son of a Baptist minister. And in Motson, Spiers encountered, he says, “uncanny” parallels. Motson is the son of a Methodist minister.
Spiers told allmediascotland.com: “Both our fathers were fiery preachers, who’d bang out their sermons on the Saturday morning, on a typewriter, and then take their sons to football in the afternoon, because they were also passionate about football."
Full story at All Media Scotland.
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