Sports commentator There are however exceptions to this — most of the United Kingdom's leading cricket and snooker commentators are former professionals in their sports, while the former Formula One racing commentator Murray Walker had no formal journalistic training and only limited racing experience of his own. In the United States, George "Pat" Summerall, a former professional kicker, spent most of his broadcasting career as a play-by-play announcer. Although the combination of a play-by-play announcer and a color commentator is standard , in the past it was much more common for a broadcast to have no analysts and just have a single
Rob Palmer (commentator) Rob Palmer (commentator) Rob Palmer is the senior commentator for La Liga on Sky Sports. He has worked for Sky Sports since 1996, originally joining from Granada Television to work as the North West correspondent for the Sports News channel. His broadcasting career started at BBC Radio Humberside (alongside Skysports colleague Rob Hawthorne). He is a former professional goalkeeper with Derby County who accepted a scholarship at the University of New Haven , Connecticut in the USA to play football and take a BSc in Mass Media Communication. He broke several NCAA records as The Chargers progressed to the Regional