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Throughout the 1980s, Tyler established himself as the ITV network's number two commentator behind Brian Moore. The tournament was also memorable on a personal level because he met his future wife while on duty in Spain. In 1982, he led ITV's World Cup team, covering every England game and the final alongside Ian St. Another change of region came in 1981 as Tyler moved to Granada in his native North West. In 1976, Tyler moved to Yorkshire Television and began to make an impression on ITV Sport bosses, who included him in the team for the 1978 World Cup. It was a successful bow and six weeks later he was asked back, soon becoming a regular commentator. Their regular football commentator (and ITV's tennis man) Gerry Williams was indisposed and on 28 December 1974 Tyler made his commentary debut at The Dell describing a Second Division clash between Southampton and Sheffield Wednesday. However, the break did eventually come with another ITV region Southern Television. His job was solely a production role, but at one match he did his own commentary on a tape recorder and handed it in to his bosses expecting, and indeed initially gaining, little response. He was also ghostwriter on football pundit Jimmy Hill's column in The Times and reported matches under his own name for that paper.Īt the urging of Hill he took a job behind the scenes on LWT's The Big Match – which had been established in 1968. Football commentary career Īfter graduating from the University of East Anglia in the 1960s, Tyler helped in the publishing of Marshall Cavendish's Book of Football. In 2003, he was voted the FA Premier League Commentator of the Decade.

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He provided his voice to the football video game series FIFA from 2005 until 2019. Tyler had previously commentated for ITV in the 1970s and 1980s. He worked as a commentator for Sky Sports from 1990 to 2023, covering the Premier League and UEFA Champions League, as well as other domestic and international competitions. Martin Parmar Tyler (born 14 September 1945) is an English football commentator and semi-professional football coach. Sky Sports, SBS Sports, IMG, Premier League Productions

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