Alan Green
Alan Green
Alan Greenhas been a BBC Radio sports commentator since 1981, mainly on football but also on golf, rowing and the Olympic Games...
ProfessionSportscaster
Date of Birth25 June 1952
pay attention share
I've bought QPP shares but unfortunately both times I bought it they immediately dropped by over 10p. Do you pay much attention to the dealing notes?
spiritual secular
I've never really separated out the spiritual and the secular.
football ideas looks
Xavier, who looks just like Zeus, not that I have any idea what Zeus looks like...
football playing-football commentators
Ziege hits it high for Heskey who isn't playing
wind arctic knows
I don't know where this Arctic wind has come from but it's freezing!
soccer feet height
Here's Brian Flynn. His official height is five feet five and he doesn't look much taller than that
soccer two cherries
Well, he had two stabs at the cherry
soccer winning games
This will be their 19th consecutive game without a win unless they can get an equaliser.
games goal able
You don't score 64 goals in 86 games at the highest level without being able to score goals.
opportunity giving people
I want to be able to open up the really good treasures of the Church and Christianity to people, and that's not going to be achieved by shouting at them to convert or they'll go to hell. It's about giving them an opportunity to reimagine Christianity.
football blow watches
Phil Dowd checks his whistle and blows his watch.
government giving enemy
In the time of Mrs Thatcher the church, to give it its due, spoke out and was an enemy of the Conservative government.
hymns raises-questions church
I grew up in the church, with traditional hymns, but at the same time I was beginning to listen to pop music, the mid-60s, The Beatles, which had just as much influence on me as those hymns did. Then the hippy stuff like Pink Floyd started to raise questions about how I lived my life and the world in which I lived.
beautiful song book
The [book of the bible] Song Of Songs is an amazing erotic love poem that the church has tried very hard not to notice. It is really beautiful, and musical in its poetry.