Tim Gudgin hangs up his microphone

Reading the results since 1965, Tim Gudgin's voice has probably been heard by more people than some Prime Ministers.

His last day today with the BBC after six decades of service.

For me, his voice is the constant that links me to my Nan and Grandad -in 70's and 80's Lewisham,
Saturday afternoons watching, World of Sport with Dickie Davis and Grandstand with Frank Bough.
The familiar tones of Tim Gudgin have been a comfortable ever present in a game that has changed immersurably around him.





End of an era -

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True Legend.

 

There's a short dedication to him on the BBC sport homepage now

http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/15804993.stm

 

Final Score won't be the same without his dulcet tones. I pity the bloke who replaces him.

 

Really? So did my Grandad - He worked there after the second world war until he retired in 1982, as a Carpenter and handy man back in the days before jobs like that were farmed out to contractors.

He was a heavy artillery engineer in the war and married my Nan who was from Ladywell who was working at a munitions factory where they met.

 

Tim Gudgin used to have trouble pronouncing 'Hamilton Academical'

 

I went to Northbrook school on the corner of Lee Green and Hither Green - I think it's called Trinity school these days.

 

Dulwich was always the posh divide in that part of South London when I was growing up.

 

Does anyone else remember seeing Mark E Smith read out the results?
Two of my favourite things, Football and The Fall - combined in such an unexpected way

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The swimming pool was in Ladywell - a favourite childhood haunt of mine, I used to swim for Lewisham Borough.
We used to go on school trips to the Horniman museum in Forest Hill.
Do you remember the old Lewisham Arndale centre with jungle animal shaped bins and the figures that came out of the clocks on each hour?

 

Sometime last season they somehow skipped through League One that afternoon - when they got them up again at the end of the results is the only time I ever heard him sound pissed off...

 

Legend.

His voice always brings me back to my childhood watching results come in at my late Nan's house.

 

If you are referring to Barry Rd Ensil, that was me, born in 246.

 

Are you referring to the year or house number?
If it's the former, you'd be old enough to remember Spurs' last title

 

I was stunned when I first saw this. Apparently Tim Gudgin is a big fan of the Fall
They're a band from Manchester Luke, which is a principal northern city roughly 200 miles north of Tottenham

 

I'm a massive fan of The Fall - I remember a gig at the old Town and Country club in Kentish town. At the end Mark E Smith went round collecting all the set lists from the stage, there were loads of teeny fans at the front all waving their arms hoping he'd give them to one of them. Smith walked to the front of the stage, folded the set lists and calmly tucked them into his back pocket, before turning and walking off stage. Typical brazen arrogance from a man who can get away with it

 

Well, you'll know as well as me that Woolwich was a mere stones throw from our old stomping ground. My Dad is from Charlton and my Auntie used to live in Plumstead. She lived a few doors down from some of the houses that have still got some remains of the old terrace from our original Manor Ground in the back gardens. There was a lad who lived in one of the houses and we used to ride our bikes together around the bottom of plumstead commmon. I remember seeing the bits of old terrace in his Garden and there started my fascination with Arsenal FC.

I know you Spurs boys like to use the Woolwich thing as a sly dig, but for me it just reminds me of my roots and the reasons that I started supporting Arsenal.