| Ray Stubbs | ||
| Personal information | ||
|---|---|---|
| Full name | Raymond Stubbs | |
| Date of birth | 1956 | |
| Place of birth | Wallasey, Wirral, England | |
| Club information | ||
| Current club | Retired | |
| Senior clubs1 | ||
| Years | Club | App (Gls)* |
| 1978-80 1980-85 |
Bangor City Tranmere Rovers |
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1 Senior club appearances and goals |
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Raymond Stubbs (born Wallasey, Wirral, 1956) is a broadcaster and former footballer. Wallasey is a large town within the Metropolitan Borough of Wirral, in Merseyside, England, on the mouth of the River Mersey Year 1956 ( MCMLVI) was a Leap year starting on Sunday (link will display full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. He currently works for BBC Sport, presenting Final Score, as well as the coverage of snooker and darts. Final Score is a BBC TV programme presented by Ray Stubbs, which runs on Saturday afternoons on BBC One in England. Snooker is a Cue sport that is played on a large Baize -covered table with pockets in each of the four corners and in the middle of each of the long Darts refers to a variety of related games in which darts are thrown at a circular target (dartboard hung on a wall He occasionally presents Match of the Day, Match of the Day 2, and 6-0-6 on Five Live. Match of the Day (sometimes abbreviated as MOTD) is the BBC 's main football Television programme Match of the Day 2 (otherwise known as MotD2) is a football highlights programme shown on BBC Two in the United Kingdom 6-0-6 (pronounced six-oh-six is a football Phone-in, broadcast on BBC Radio Five Live throughout the football season when the programme started
Ray also presented Football Focus from 1999 until 2004 (before being replaced by Manish Bhasin, who is still presenting the programme), as well as other BBC sports programmes, such as Grandstand and Sportsnight. Football Focus is a BBC Television show broadcast on BBC One on Saturday lunchtimes covering football, presented by Manish Manish Bhasin is a football and Cricket presenter for the BBC. Grandstand was a British Television Sport programme and was one of the BBC 's longest running sports shows alongside BBC Sportsnight was a midweek BBC television sports programme that ran from 1968 until 1997
He was initially a professional footballer, leaving Calday Grange Grammar School to join Bangor City where he played from 1978-80. Calday Grange Grammar School (abbreviated to CGGS; also known as Calday, Calday Grange) is a Non-denominational selective grammar Bangor City FC is a football team playing in the Welsh Premier League. He then played for Tranmere Rovers for five years. Tranmere Rovers Football Club is an English football club currently playing in Football League One and based at Prenton Park, Tranmere After ending his playing career, he stayed with the club in an administrative capacity and then spent three years with BBC Radio Merseyside as a reporter and presenter. BBC Radio Merseyside is the BBC Local Radio service for the English metropolitan county of Merseyside and north Cheshire. [1]
In 1986, Ray moved to BBC Manchester as an assistant producer, working on sports including snooker, darts and bowls, and on the quiz show A Question of Sport. Bowls (also known as Lawn Bowls or Lawn Bowling) is a precision Sport in which the goal is to roll slightly radially asymmetrical Balls A Question of Sport is a long-running BBC Quiz show which started on 5 January 1970 and continues to this day He also worked as a producer, reporter and presenter on BBC Two's investigative sports series On The Line, which took him to Italy in 1990 to report on England football fans at the World Cup. On the Line is a 2001 American romantic comedy starring Lance Bass and Emmanuelle Chriqui. The FIFA World Cup, occasionally called the Football World Cup, but usually referred to simply as the World Cup, is an international Association football [1]
Later that year, Ray began working as a reporter on Grandstand, Match of the Day and Sportsnight. He reported from the Irish camp during the 1994 FIFA World Cup in America, and was the BBC's reporter-in-residence in the England camp during Euro 96 and the 1998 FIFA World Cup in France. The 1994 FIFA World Cup, the 15th staging of the FIFA World Cup, was held in the United States from June 17 to July 17 1994 The 1996 UEFA European Football Championship ( Euro 96) was hosted by England. The 1998 FIFA World Cup, the 16th staging of the World Cup was held in France from June 10 to July 12 after 60 years to celebrate the third edition scheduled Ray co-hosted coverage of the 1998 Winter Olympics, co-presented coverage of the 1998 Commonwealth Games, and has also reported for BBC One's On Side. The Winter Olympic Games are a winter Multi-sport event held every four years The Commonwealth Games is a multinational Multi-sport event. Held every four years it involves the elite athletes of the Commonwealth of Nations. [1] He helped present Match of the Day as part of the BBC's 2006 World Cup coverage. The 2006 FIFA World Cup was the 18th instance of the FIFA World Cup, the quadrennial international football world championship tournament
Ray has been a big supporter of Sport Relief and has become the project's action hero. Sport Relief is a biennial charity event from Comic Relief, in association with BBC Sport, which brings together the worlds of sport and entertainment to raise money In 2002, he was dropped 100 feet into a pile of boxes; in 2004, he was suspended from a crane, and swung into a giant ball of dung; and, in 2006, was tied to a post and bombarded by 15,000 bouncy balls.
In 2007, Ray took part in Comic Relief does Fame Academy, and made it to the last five, before being struck down by an upper respiratory tract infection. Comic Relief Does Fame Academy is a spin-off of the original Fame Academy show where celebrities (students sing as students of the Academy Upper respiratory tract infections, ( URTI or URI) are the illnesses caused by an acute Infection which involves the upper Respiratory tract: Despite his illness, he still performed twice on the night, before being voted out by three of his fellow students so he could go home and recover. Ray also takes part in the Great North Run each year for charity, and is an honoury member of Gateshead Harriers. The BUPA Great North Run is the world's most popular Half marathon Road running event
References
- ^ a b c Football Focus: Ray Stubbs (August 2001). BBC Sport.
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