"What's happening? Somebody's been sent off! Sid Hynes has been sent off!"

"Bradford Northern player" - that whole commentary from Darrell Eastlake is a poem, especially with Jack Gibson as his co-commentator and Ray French on the sideline.

Also Ray French's 'Mal Meninga this 15 stone Brisbane policeman' is genius. Any variant that involves a players weight, height, occupation or amateur club deserves an honourable mention as well.

"Look at him go.Hes got more toe than a Roman sandal"

On that theme it was drummed into me from an early age (a bit like the times tables) that John Holdsworth was from Kippax in West Yorkshire!

"The former Blackbrook amateur....."

Something along the lines of:

'The trickle of Saints fans leaving this ground has swelled into a river'.
Ray French, radio 5.

unless you're a saints fan, you're unlikely to remember this one, but it is my earliest memory of commentary from a match involving my team:

"Tony Burke!...he took everybody by surprise, I think including himself"

prize for anyone who can name the game and who scored the match winning try moments later

Definitely one of Waring's most memorable commentaries is his excitement at GB/Hull KR wing Young scoring that try against us Aussies in the 1967 1st Test at Headingley.

"Bill Holliday...watch the interceptions...oh he's got...can Young go past, can Young go, can Young beat Johns, can Young beat Johns...Ah he goes around the posts...for a bashing* try." (the last bit nearly one word)

Gets your blood up even as an Aussie...a truly great commentator despite, or perhaps because of, the attacks on him.

* still don't know what this means or whether it was "smashing"?

Not rugby,but Julian Ryder commentating during a motorcycle race."Most riders have chosen a medium or soft rear tyre, but Corsa is riding with a hard on."

From the same game
EW excitedly "HE'S IN, HE'S IN" then almost crying in to his mic "in touch" as another Leeds attack fails.

not rl but there was a good one from the world of cricket in the 80's.

brian johnson was commentating.

the batsmans holding the bowlers willey

They'll all be watching him, in the clubhouse...

A few from Raymondo....

"Every time we come to Headingley there is a dog on the pitch. Why oh why people bring dogs to Rugby games, I'll never know"


"And there we see the sad sight of Martin Offiah limping off with a broken finger."


"Well Joe, in today's game it's all about pasta and enzymes, when I played we only had a segment of orange".

Aussie commentator... "He's like Banjo Paterson's dog, this fella" If I remember correctly they were on about Andy Leatham.