Name Bob Colston | Died March 24, 2013 | |
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Bob Colston was a broadcaster who was famous in the United Kingdom as the voice of the football results on the ITV programme World of Sport which ran from 1965 to 1985. He died on 24 March 2013 aged 84.
Whilst reading the results, Colston inflected his voice to imply the result of a match simply through his sonorous intonation of the home team's score. Colston read the results out for many years on World of Sport right up to its cancellation. Soon afterwards the crew had its own results programme called Results Service which ran until 1992 with Colston reading the football scores. By then the results featured on the Saturday teatime ITV News bulletin which Colston did until 1999 when he joined Sky Sports which he sometimes did the football scores on Soccer Saturday.