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2 hours ago, Hroth said:

 

On a good day, he could out-Coleman David Coleman, and HE had a Private Eye column named after him...

 

 

Peter West, as a cricket and rugby union commentator, had his moments.  Radio commentating on a cricket match at Swansea's St Helen's ground in the mid-60s, he once came out a bit drunkenly with 'There's a ship with big white funnels going round and round and round in the bay' (Campbell's Cardiff Queen was experiencing rudder problems*, and nothing much happens at times in cricket, fair play, drunk or not he had a professional's aversion to dead air time).  I rate this as equivalent to Alvar Liddell's slurred 'The fleet's all lit up!' at a pre-war Spithead Review (the fleet not being the only thing all lit up, Alvar...).   A proud Englishman, West found non-partisan commentary at internationals difficult, and would usually be 'entertained' a bit pre-match; he was responsible for delights such as 'the referee has just blown up in the middle of the field', and the following IIRC was from a Wales game which England lost quite badly in the early 60s, '... and the b*ggers are coming at us again!'. 

 

He was kept to 'It's a Knockout' & 'Come Dancing' after that...

 

 

*The Mumbles lifeboat was carrying out training duties at the same time, and 'stood by' the paddle steamer until the issue was resolved, but nobody was ever in any danger.  The local press, alerted to the incident by West's circulatory description, made the most of it and you'd have thought a Titanic-scale disaster had been averted!