George Hamilton
speaker
741 appearances
4 recordings
2 series
first heard Jun 2026
last heard 31 Jul
George Hamilton’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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Magic is right.
What's your feelings when you get the call-up?
Well, it came in the form of a letter from Fred Cogley, who was the head of sport at the time, who was kind of,
Not really saying, please come with us to Argentina.
We were considering asking you.
This was how the letter was couched.
And I was right back to the post box with the letter back saying, consider no more, I'm on board.
It went from there.
28 exactly, yeah.
So you're still pretty young to be getting a call-up for commentary for a World Cup.
Absolutely.
I mean, my commentary experience was Northern Ireland-based.
My big match had been a World Cup qualifier, funnily enough, and the kind of serendipity in that, that Northern Ireland were in the same group as the Netherlands, who ended up playing in the World Cup final.
And Northern Ireland's first match was against the Netherlands.
Danny Blanchflower was a new manager.
He recalled George Best from the International Wilderness.
Best, of course, had retired and then come back and was playing for Fulham at the time.
And
BBC Northern Ireland, their head of sport wasn't there at the time.
She was on holiday, Joy Williams, and her deputy did something that Joy I don't think would ever have done.
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