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
Alexander M. Thompson and afterwards, Thompson wrote many articles for the "Weekly Dispatch" concerning the Labour movement, the condition of the poor and other social topics. He also wrote for the "Daily Mail" and later the "News Chronicle" and "The Manchester Guardian". In 1937, he published an autobiography, "Here I Lie - The Memorial of an Old Journalist". Thompson died in London at the age of 86. Alexander M. Thompson Alexander Mattock Thompson (9 May 1861 – 25 March 1948), sometimes credited as A. M. Thompson, was a German-born English journalist and dramatist. From the 1880s, Thompson wrote for socialist newspapers and journals,