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3 unusual facts about Elton Welsby


Elton Welsby

Welsby is name-checked by the Birkenhead band Half Man Half Biscuit in the song "A Country Practice", found on their 1998 album Four Lads Who Shook the Wirral.

It was the task of future BBC Director-General Greg Dyke to oversee the coverage and he entrusted Welsby as presenter of The Match, anchoring numerous dramatic matches over the next four years-most notably Arsenal's 2-0 win against Liverpool in the last game of the season which saw the Gunners snatch a last minute winner at Anfield.

He was absent from the network's coverage of the 1994 FIFA World Cup, which saw newcomer Matthew Lorenzo do much of the presenting, and the imminent arrival of Bob Wilson pushed Welsby further down the football presenting pecking order on ITV.



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