Defo Murray Walker
honourable mentions for knowledge and erudite passion-
Harry Carpenter on Boxing
Peter O'Sullivan on Horse Racing

David Coleman... his commentary made athletics popular and I also enjoyed his football commentary.

Sid Waddell is an annoying bawbag. He just spouts a right load of crap that has nothing to do with the sport he is supposed to be commenting on.

Like me I guess.

However, to answer the question, and sorry for offending my Yorkshire friends even more, David "Bumble" Lloyd in the creekit is the daddy.

Mark Hobson & Bobby Ham

Ray Warren

Some GREAT names posted fron the past. Modern commentators are platinudinous, factual but lacking in enthusiasm and knowledge.
Apart from Sid Waddell : though seriously lacking in structured verbosity and uninteded mixed metaphores and inane similarities, there been no one up to the sheer suspension of belief since Eddy Waring

Brian Moore commentary for the Rugby Yawnion is brilliant he definitely says how he sees it.

Michael O'Hehir would have to be the best. Commentating on horse racing is probably one of the hardest sports to commentate on, moves very fast, horses falling, trying to judge a horse by the jockeys colours ie up to 40 different shirts to remeber. just think grand National. O'Hehir was offered a boat load of money by the BBC to be their full time Racing Commentator but turned it down so that he could stay in Ireland to commentate on Hurling and Gaelic football. He did however come over every year for the National and one or two other race meetings. He is acknowledged as being the best ever racing commentator. See link for some details en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_O'Hehir

Michael O'Hehir would have to be the best. Commentating on horse racing is probably one of the hardest sports to commentate on, moves very fast, horses falling, trying to judge a horse by the jockeys colours ie up to 40 different shirts to remeber. just think grand National. O'Hehir was offered a boat load of money by the BBC to be their full time Racing Commentator but turned it down so that he could stay in Ireland to commentate on Hurling and Gaelic football. He did however come over every year for the National and one or two other race meetings. He is acknowledged as being the best ever racing commentator. See link for some details en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_O'Hehir

If you can stand his pro-England bias.

DDD obviously

Jimmy Hill





Well.... Well.... Well.....

Sid Waddell is darts. Darts was a pub game then Sid Waddell created Indoor League for Yorkshire Television (presented by the greatest cricketer ever) and since then with the help of Sid amongst others has now become a sell out Arena sport (PDC anyway the BDO is crap) - Gary Hetherington won't have it but it's more popular than Leeds Rhinos.

The man is a genius and a master of the one liner. A Cambridge graduate (who organised the first inter-collegiate darts tournament) and accomplised writer the man is a legend in the true sense of the world.

A resident of Pudsey he is without doubt THE greatest sports commentator of all the sports even more so than Brian Johnston and Eddie Waring.

You are Sid Waddell and I claim my Macaroon. . . .

Unfortunately I have to admit that I am not as I am neither a resident of Pudsey, a geordie or a Cambirgde graduate BUT you are always welcome a macaroon or a pint the next time you're up mate

Sorry I should have rephrased that as Sid "Dennis Priestley's eyes are bulging like a hungry Chaffinch" Waddell, Brian "Oh stop it Aggers" Johnston and Eddie "he's a poor lad" Waring.

TBH, his constant stupid one liners and blatantly biased love-in with Phil Taylor are just deeply annoying.

A great commentator should not show bias to one person/team and he clearly does.

He is a bit biased towards Taylor I admit that but Taylor is so much better than anyone else - ever.

The guy who used to do the wrestling on World of Sport.

Gorilla Monsoon and Jesse 'The Body' Ventura were pretty awesome, marginally better than Gorilla and Bobby 'The Brain' Heenan. That was Sports Entertainment though.

IIR Kent Walton?

And?

No matter how good Taylor is, I said that good commentators should be impartial. He is clearly not.

In fact, I am surprised he can even see what is going on with his head stuck so far up Taylors' bumhole.

(BTW he is a LOT biased towards Taylor)

No he's not.

Unlike the Principality's own dear Jonathan Davies!!

... it's got to be Fred Trueman on test match special for me (especially when there wasn't any cricket going on!)

Aye right.