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Sam Todd: Barry Davies was pure commentating genius

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Sam Todd looks back at the career of broadcasting legend Barry Davies

The 1986 Argentina-England World Cup quarter-final has recently resembled the Master-Card adverts you may have seen during the late 1990s/early 2000s:
Diego Maradona’s shirt: auctioned off for £7.1m.
The match ball: subject to a £2m bid.
Barry Davies’ commentary: Priceless.
Davies, who was inducted into the National Football Museum (NFM) Hall of Fame in March, soundtracked many of the beautiful game’s most iconic incidents, and one of its most tragic with the Heysel Disaster at the 1985 European Cup final, during a six-de...

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