I've got a few (one of which I expect to see on here if this thread goes anywhere), but I'll go for this one :
Harry Carpenter commentating on The Boat Race. "Isn't that nice, the wife of the Oxford president is kissing the cox of the Cambridge crew"
"Is Gascoigne going to have a crack?...He is you know. Oh I say...that is schoolboys' own stuff!" (Barry Davies a far better commentator than Motty could ever hope to be but he couldn't shout like Brian could.) Wembley FA Cup Semi Final 1991. I was at University living with a Gooner. To avoid violence we had to get 40 miles between us to watch the game. He's Godfather to my youngest but to this day I have never let him forget this moment and it still hurts him.
You could fill a book with the hundreds of Pleatisms from through the years... "Craig Bellamy definitely runs faster forwards than he runs backwards"“ “The Swedish only have ten minutes to do something should they want to stay in the competition”Clive Tyldesley: “There’s still 26 minutes left of the match”Pleat: “Oh dear I forgot to put my watch back to Swiss time” “With eight minutes left, the game could be won in the next five or ten minutes” “They are trying to walk the ball in by heading it” “They're changing some of the midget gems in midfield”“There we see the little man trying to scratch the big man" "The Dutch will be wary of the big lad pulling off at the back post" "This will be the first time we will be two thirds of the way through the match" "Carrick will be the deepest of the threesome" "He wasn't really trying to score with that shot" "Marseille needed to score first, and that never looked likely once Liverpool had taken the lead" "I would take advantage of this and make the wall stand the full 10 metres back"' "Giggs is enjoying himself in the middle of the threesome" "I think they'll have to throw the kitchen sink at them now a bit. Maybe not the whole sink, with all the plumbing - maybe just the taps for now" "He's a local favourite, born and bred in Salford" (On Cardiff-born Ryan Giggs)" "I was inbred into the game by my father" "There's a little bit of a South American touch, if that's not Irish, about this European side, Portugal" "And the steam has gone completely out of the Spanish sails" "A game is not won until it is lost" "Our central defenders, Doherty and Anthony Gardner, were fantastic and I told them that when they went to bed that night they should think of each other"
For one liners it has to be Kenneth Wolstenholme. As Geoff Hurst raced up the wing towards the German goal, "They think it's all over!" and a second later as Hurst buries the ball in the net "It is now" I was actually on a cross channel ferry, a Belgian boat with the passenger break down 50% English to 50% German. The captain had piped the game through the boats speaker system and we were just arriving at Dover as Hurst scored. The customs waived us through singing we are the champions, my train home to London was free and my bus from Victoria was also free as every one celebrated. Amazing atmosphere in London, I have never seen such a thing again.
This wasn't the other one I mentioned in the OP (that was actually Brian's Gazza commentary - which made me fall out of bed cheering at the time btw), but it still brings goosebumps :
Since the 1999 CL Final's already been mentioned it's worth remembering how high on the excitement our own Terry Venables was that night. So much so that after the game had ended, on reviewing an incident in the game where a Bayern player was fortunate, Terry just chuckled and said "Haha - he was a lucky ****!"
Aside from those already mentioned... Kane scoring his second last season against Arsenal Aguero winning the prem with the last kick of the season
I quite like Ken Wolstenholme's "That pass was so good it beat the player it was intended for" and 'and now both teams are playing for a draw, except Chelsea of course' And the snooker guy who in the match after Alex Higgins was fined for pissing in a plant pot near the arena because he couldn't make it to the toilet described one of his attempts as: 'Higgins just had a wild slash at that plant'
"This will be the first time we will be two thirds of the way through the match" made me laugh for a minute. Full marks for comic improvisation to the two commentators on this one. If I had to pick a nationality for commentators I’d go for Mexican ten times out of ten. S̱peaking English or Spanish, it doesn’t matter, they tend strongly to be gung ho with a sneaky, ironic sense of humor. I can only dream of watching the winter Olympics in Mexico again. The commentators had an attititude of, "Well, don’t know much about this stuff, but I know a good performance when I see one, and I know how to have fun." Then there was the guy who for once was present in the booth when a commentator made some kind of commentator-ism like, "They really need to score to have a chance at winning." Dead silence for two seconds."Thanks for that."
Not sure if you can class it as actual commentary as it wasn't done over a live game but this video with Roger Lloyd-Pack speaking over it always gets the hairs standing on my neck: This one always goes down nicely - "Ohhhh it's Danny Rose on his Premier League debut!":
With about 15 minutes left in the CL final in 2006 - "well, it looks like Arsenal have weathered the storm"...
