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Top commentator John Motson has purchased a new sheep-skin coat. It's longer and a different colour as well.
It was set to get its first airing at Stevenage yesterday.
Motson who started his career 50 years ago has said this will be his last season for BBC's Match of the Day.
"Full-length, so warm. It cost two grand.
“I’ve always paid for my own. People think the BBC pay for them but they don’t.
“It’s the job most boys dream about when they’re 12 and I’ve done it for half a century . . . you can’t ask for anything more."
As everyone knows Motson came to fame when Hereford United defeated Newcastle United in the FA Cup at Edgar Street in February 1972.
“Tremendous spirit in this Hereford side . . . they’re not giving this up by any means . . . Radford . . . now Tudor’s gone down for Newcastle . . . Radford again, oh what a . . . GOAL! WHAT a goal. Radford the scorer. Ronnie Radford.
“And the crowd . . . the crowd are invading the pitch and now we’ll take some time to clear the field.
“What a tremendous shot by Radford. He got that ball back and hit it from well outside the penalty area and no goalkeeper in the world would have stopped that.”
Ricky George scored the winning goal.
“Ricky played for Barnet while I worked on the local paper, the Barnet Press,” says Motson.
“To this day, I still meet him every Sunday in a pub in Barnet.
“He worked for Adidas. It was actually his job to paint the white
adidas stripes on the boots of the England team in Alf Ramsey’s time.
But that night he was the star of Match of the Day himself.”