One of sport’s most instantly recognisable voicesBroadcaster best known for work within footballGerald Sinstadt, one of the most instantly recognisable television sports voices as a commentator for
BBC and ITV for more than 40 years, has died at the age of 91.
The versatile broadcaster, who covered
golf as well as the Olympics, will be chiefly remembered for his
Football commentaries, first for Granada TV in the north-west in the 1970s and also with the BBC where in 1989 he was famously its pitchside reporter on the day of the Hillsborough disaster.