“Very, very occasionally, once or twice, amongst all the rubbish on Twitter, someone has said ‘Attenborough of football,’” Clive Tyldesley says towards the end of our interview. “And, wow, I’m sure as hell f***ing not that but if you want to throw a compliment my way, that kind of acceptance as being a part of someone’s life if they want to watch a bit of football, then that is the biggest praise that I can certainly deal with or process.”
It is a comparison which stands up because Tyldelsey has provided the sound to so many of the game’s biggest moments.
From Barcelona in 1999 and Istanbul in 2005 to numerous disappointments for England, his voice was present, etched in our minds as the backing track of iconic wins and losses.
