In a controversial development, the BBC are set to scrap the classified football results from their Saturday afternoon football coverage on Radio 5 Live.
The results became part of regular programming during the 50s as a way of informing those listening via the radio the full results from the Saturday afternoon fixtures, which before the days of televised football was all matches. They were originally read out by John Webster before being made famous by James Alexander Gordon who read them between 1973 and 2013.
Gordon's iconic voice is a recognisable sound to many football fans who grew up listening to 'sports report, he passed away in 2014 having retired a year previously. Charlotte Green then picked up the baton and has been reading the scores ever since.
