We Welcome Your Teams - Football as seen by stadium announcers

This time around we're chatting with Jason Thelwell, who's been at Oakwell for 30 years, across two spells but there's a good reason for that! Rich Hurst of West Brom and Alan Keegan of Manchester United interview Jason about the great times to be the announcer at Barnsley, the best perk of the job and the walkout music they play which is very unique. Scott Kirkpatrick from Ayr Unit...

We're back and this time around we're chatting to Paul Coyte, half-time presenter at Tottenham Hotspur. Along with Rich Hurst of West Brom and Alan Keegan of Man Utd, we talk about the famous players he's met, odd situations he's found himself in and the difference between White Hart Lane and the new Tottenham Hotspur stadium. Paul did the presentation on the last day of White...

How did the stadium announcer at Forest Green Rovers get that job? Fellow announcers Rich Hurst of West Brom and Alan Keegan of Man Utd talk to Joel Wagstaff, voice of the stands at FGR. He tells us about the time his got the name of a local school horribly wrong whilst Alan takes us through his football tie collection! There's another game of What's My Name ft a French-Morrocan guy and...

Rich Hurst of West Brom and Alan Keegan of Man Utd speak to Manchester City stadium announcer Alex Kirkley who's been at the Etihad for 10 years! He announced THAT Sergio Aguero goal that won them the title in the dying minutes of the season.  He tells us about his favourite moments, the clangers he's dropped and the time he went under the radar for a game at Old Trafford...little did we...

In this special episode, released ahead of the Manchester Derby,  hear stories of announcing from Man Utd's Alan Keegan and Man City's Alex Kirkley. Host Rich Hurst gets them to talk specifically about their memories of announcing for Manchester derby, which down the years have seen some incredible drama. As they're both such big fans of their club, you can hear the passion as they...

Mike Botto has been stadium announcer at Bournemouth for nearly 15 years. He told Rich Hurst of West Brom and Alan Keegan of Man Utd the fortunate way he landed the job and the opportunities it's brought with it. We get his thoughts on being allowed to work during lockdown and the perks that come with basing yourself in the chairman's box for the games. He's been there for some incr...

Rod Allsworth has been at Fleetwood Town for 14 years and from day one, they've had the most unusual goal music you'll hear anywhere! The music the team walks out to is pretty obscure too, but that's all thanks to the chairman.  Rod chats with Rich Hurst and Alan Keegan about biggest wins/defeats and the times we've had to orchestrate a marriage proposal on the pitch - Alan&apo...

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 s...

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...

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 t...

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 ve...

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 pra...

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...

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...

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. O...

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 Rov...

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: Dis...

Matt James has been stadium announcing at West Bromwich Albion since 1985.  He's seen promotion, relegation, play-offs and great escapes...plus a few other things worth talking about. Baggies fans will recognise his dry sense of humour but might not know how far he commutes from for each home game (a few thousand miles!) Music: District Four by Kevin Mcleod You can text Rich and Alan with a q...

When Colin Carter saw the fourth official show four minutes of added time in Carlisle Utd's game against Plymouth, he knew they'd be the most important four minutes in the club's history...so he said it over the tannoy...and then, their goalkeeper scored. We chat to Colin about his time at Brunton Park as the stadium announcer and he recalls that day in May 1999. A great chat about...

Rich Hurst speaks to his counterpart at Manchester United, Alan Keegan, who's been the voice of Old Trafford for over 20 years. They speak about how he got the job, the perks of working for one of the biggest clubs in the world and the times he's let his emotions get the better of him whilst being the stadium announcer. Also find out about upcoming episodes with Colin Carter from Carlisl...