We Welcome Your Teams - Football as seen by stadium announcers

In this episode Matt Crawley who works at Luton Town tells us how he started out as the stadium announcer.

He's part of a double act that has it's own crowd chants and effects to play from their booth to get the players going.

He's called promotion parties and historic matches...plus has had to prove to many people in the pub that he is the stadium announcer, by reading out random subs.

Rich Hurst of West Brom and Alan Keegan of Man Utd are putting the questions again.

There's another game of What's My Name with a very cheeky Paraguayan left back to get their tongue around.

Plus a look at announcers on social where York City have paid a special tribute to Bootham Crescent.

MUSIC: DistrictFour by Kevin McLeod

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For the first episode of series 2, we welcome Paul Burrell to the podcast.

Paul's been at Arsenal 29 years as the announcer, working at Highbury and the Emirates stadium along with a few special appearances at Wembley.

He's done League Cup Finals, FA Cup Finals, UEFA Cup finals and the Champions League final with the Gunners and has loads of stories to tell.

There's also the time he ended up in the papers for a turn of phrase one night...something that led Arsene Wenger himself to saying 'you're in the papers more than me!'

As always, Rich Hurst of West Brom and Alan Keegan of Man Utd are back as hosts, and there's a few tales of Man Utd vs Arsenal games to cover from down the years.

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Part 2 of our chat with George Sephton who's been stadium announcer at Liverpool FC for 50 years!

Find out about taking control of the music then losing his USB stick up a hoover. Also the problems caused when trying to co-ordinate all that music with the players walking out and how his 255 moment works at Anfield.

As always hosts Rich Hurst of West Brom and Alan Keegan of Man Utd are there to ask the questions.

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For the final episode of season 1,  Rich Hurst of West Bromwich Albion and Alan Keegan from Manchester United speak to George Sephton of Liverpool, who's now in his 50th season as stadium announcer.

There are stories galore, from a man who's seen and heard it all, and had the ultimate compliment from Jurgen Klopp. He was there the last time Liverpool won the league and talks about how very different a lot of things are now, not just because of Covid.

His voice is unmistakable, even if he does have to remind the odd new face on the Anfield security staff by spontaneously saying 'there will be two minutes added time' to get past.

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Join Rich Hurst of West Brom and Alan Keegan of Man Utd as they chat to Liam Brown from Wigan Athletic 

He carries a couple of great stories around with him...he was there when the Latics beat Man City in the FA Cup at the DW Stadium and played an Oasis song at the final whistle...he was also there, standing in at AFC Fylde, when he was victim of one of the most notorious fake car number plate pranks in football history.

We chat to Liam about those moments and more from being the announcer at his beloved hometown club. There's the one about his favourite manager's disco dancing, the one about taking on his opposite number from Man Utd and the one about stopping the players walking out the tunnel at the wrong moment.

Plus we look ahead to George Sephton of Liverpool talking to us in episode 10.


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Burnley's stadium announcer Dom Walker answers questions from Rich Hurst of West Brom and Alan Keegan from Man Utd about the job of stadium announcer at Turf Moor.

Find out how he ended up doing the voiceover on the FIFA computer game and the little gems he recorded that they left in the game.

Reviews and previews of other episodes including Wigan's Liam Brown and Liverpool's George Sephton.

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Rich Hurst from West Brom and Alan Keegan from Man Utd chat with Birmingham City announcer Richard Goulding.

He talks bout being ditched by a famous blues player for his big moment at Wembley, getting a fast food meal from one of his blues heroes and how it came to be that the team almost walked out to the Spice Girls.

Also find out which juggernaut of announcing we've secured for episode 10 and look ahead to our chat with Burnley's Dominic Walker about leaving hidden jokes on FIFA 18.

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Rich Hurst and Alan Keegan chat to Lance Cook about being the stadium announcer at Bristol Rovers where he's even had his Dad as his matchday assistant!

He had some big shoes to fill, a chap called Nick Day who set the bar pretty high.

Lance talks about curating the matchday playlist and the buzz of welcoming the teams....and the time his equipment let him down at the worst possible moment.

Our spotify playlist is now live with every guests' walk out music.

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Richard 'Dicky' Dodds talks to Rich and Alan about being pitchside announcer at Wolverhampton Wanderers.

He's new to the job but has already fallen in love with welcoming the teams, even though he's had pronunciation slips, substitution cock ups and thought long and hard about what to play when they lose!

This week's social announcements come from Lance Cook at Bristol Rovers and there's news about the new walkout playlist.

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Rich Hurst and Alan Keegan ask Graeme White what it's like to be the stadium announcer at Everton.

He's been at the club since 1995 and has loved every minute...apart from when he ended up in the Liverpool Echo for a European gaffe.

Hear about how quickly he accepted the job, why he loves it so much and how he could've been lining up for the Toffees in alternate universe.

Music: District Four - Kevin McLoed

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