Johns, Hugh

Johns, Hugh
▪ 2008
Hugh Richard Lewis Johns 
      British television sports commentator

born Sept. 6, 1922, Wantage, Berkshire [now in Oxfordshire], Eng.

died June 27, 2007, Cardiff, Wales
was the voice of ITV's Midlands regional association football (soccer) broadcasts in the 1960s and '70s. Between 1963 (when he switched from newspaper journalism to television) and his retirement in 1996, Johns covered an estimated 1,000 football matches, including four World Cup finals.

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