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When you call a goal wrong that's the kind of thing that haunts you said Lowes

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"When you call a goal wrong, that's the kind of thing that haunts you," said Lowes. The Metro man recalled his most embarrassing moment, which occurred at Upton Park when the West Ham defender Julian Dicks was having a storming match. "It's almost as if there's 11 Dicks on the field," Lowes enthused.The prime Greenball? That came on the final day of the season when Blackburn secured the Premiership title ahead of Manchester United, despite losing their last match at Liverpool following a late free-kick from Jamie Redknapp. "I hate the sound of my own voice."The national institution that is Colemanballs attests to the perils in store for those who live by chat.

"He was regarded as the Jonathan Pearce of his day," Lowes said. Plus ca change.When it was the turn of Green to have one of his aural highlights replayed, he shifted awkwardly in his seat, at one point making an a hopping movement of his hand as if to say "cut" "I don't listen to anything I do," he said. Lowes acknowledged that Pearce had his critics, but pointed out that the man was a genuinely passionate football fan.By way of historical perspective, Lowes added that Brian Moore - ITV's recently retired doyen of the microphone - had been hauled over the coals early in his commentary career because of what was seen as excessive enthusiasm. "Totally unrehearsed," said Green, with a pleasing hint of malice. The profile of football commentary, the chosen topic at the latest meeting of the self-styled Radio Academy chaired by the Football Association executive director, David Davies, has risen in recent years, just like everything else associated with the Beautiful - and currently Bountiful - Game. Practitioners such as Pearce have become well known in their own right, as have others such as BBC Radio 5 Live's Alan Green, and Metro Sport's Mick Lowes, both of whom were on hand at the in-house gathering to offer their own personal commentaries on the business which earns them a living. Their reaction to Pearce's anabolic rhetoric - which was played by way of entertainment to the England players as they made their way to Wembley for the Euro 96 semi-final against Germany - was instructive.

"I'm staying," he said, adding that the team, which has recently signed the former champion Carlos Sainz for 2000, would be strong contenders for the title next season.McRae, speaking in Dubai following a major crash in the Australian rally from which he emerged unscathed, said he would review his options at the end of next season.. your boys are out! So you can stick it up your Julio Iglesias! England are heading for the biggest, biggest prize!" The frenzied words of Jonathan Pearce - for it was he - drew a collective chuckle of recognition as they were played back to a roomful of fellow workers in the medium of sound. ENGLAND HAD beaten Spain on penalties in the quarter-finals of Euro 96, and for Capital Radio listeners at the time, the story went something like this: "Never mind your Jose Carreras, never mind your Don Quixote... "I'll stick with what I know," the Scotsman said.McRae's employers, Ford, said in March that they aimed to give the rally champion a test drive in a Stewart Formula One car "to go out and see what he can do" and the story quickly got out of hand, with rumours circulating that McRae was contemplating a switch."I wasn't thinking of going to Formula One.

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