Alan Parry

Alan Parry is a sports analyst who focuses on football and athletics. He is one of the well-known "Big Four" Sky Sports commentators. Parry started his career as a football commentator on BBC Radio. He covered England's international and league matches, as well as European tournaments, as a radio announcer. He moved from radio to television commentary in 1981, joining BBC TV.

After a few years at the BBC, Parry moved to ITV, where he became one of the network's top commentators. Since then, he's worked for major sports broadcasters like BT Sports and Sky Sports, where he presently works. He also conducts Premier League match commentary for Premier League Productions on a regular basis.

During the 1980s and 1990s, he also worked as an Athletics commentator for ITV and Sky. But it's arguably his time at ITV that people remember him for. The words "Oh Yes!" for Roberto Baggio's spectacular solo goal in Italia '90 come to memory, as does shouting with Kevin Keegan live on air over a glaring red card for Brazil's Leonardo in USA '94. ”The man nicknamed John Wayne by his manager, gets off his horse, ties it up to the post, pulls out the gun, gets finger on the trigger...and fires the bullet right down the middle,” he said of Shaun Teale's penalty for Aston Villa in their thrilling shootout triumph against Tranmere Rovers in the 1994 League Cup semi-final. Genius.

Born: 1948

Place of birth: Garston