:00:16. > :00:19.Hello. I'm speaking from the observation platform at London
:00:20. > :00:24.Airport. And this is the moment they've been
:00:25. > :00:28.waiting for. David Coleman, the pioneer of modern sports
:00:29. > :00:30.broadcasting died peacefully in his sleep on the 21st December last
:00:31. > :00:34.year. Leaving a loving family and just
:00:35. > :00:38.about every generation of television viewer from black-and-white to
:00:39. > :00:42.digital to mourn his passing. It really is quite a remarkable
:00:43. > :00:53.sight, certainly one of the most remarkable sights in Britain today.
:00:54. > :01:01.There'll not be another David Coleman. Irreplaceable.
:01:02. > :01:09.He touched all of our lives in one way or another.
:01:10. > :01:14.Fantastic run. When I was growing up, David was on the screen most
:01:15. > :01:20.nights of the week. He was there for the big moments. Pele. What a save!
:01:21. > :01:24.Gordon Banks! As soon as he got a microphone in front of him, he was
:01:25. > :01:28.excited so everyone watching him was too. This is ridiculous. The
:01:29. > :01:34.Portuguese are torn apart. Just seemed to always hit the mark. Even
:01:35. > :01:42.if it was just something like "1-0! ".
:01:43. > :01:48."1-0", that's it, you know. Driven wide. Yes! Dad, can you say hello to
:01:49. > :01:53.me when you're on the telly. He said, when I touch my ear, I'm
:01:54. > :01:59.saying hello to you and suddenly he's touching his ear and we are
:02:00. > :02:04.going "he said hello". ". Remarkable. From the heart it was
:02:05. > :02:08.timed. He was one of these commentators who was a comforting
:02:09. > :02:14.feature in the background who you could trust. Princess Anne becomes
:02:15. > :02:20.the first member of the Royal Family to take part in a quiz show. An
:02:21. > :02:26.amazing coup. Seb Co E-bacc at his best. The Olympic champion as well.
:02:27. > :02:31.David Coleman said you ran well, that was better than your coach
:02:32. > :02:37.saying well. I was in awe of him, as just about everybody else was. Steve
:02:38. > :02:44.Ovett. Those blue eyes like chips of ice. You wouldn't know that the
:02:45. > :02:49.Rolls-Royce wasn't the standard. Th The man that lost his way was Seb
:02:50. > :02:56.Coe. It was only when I listened to his commentaries that I realised I
:02:57. > :03:07.was sitting next to a Rolls-Royce. Going for gold. He gets the gold.
:03:08. > :03:11.For television audiences of the 20th century, the name of David Coleman
:03:12. > :03:15.will forever be associated with the BBC. So it seemed fitting here that
:03:16. > :03:21.at Broadcasting House, colleague, friends and family gathered to
:03:22. > :03:27.celebrate his life. Let me take you back to Saturday,
:03:28. > :03:33.September 21st, 1971. A voice from the Grandstand studio shouted in my
:03:34. > :03:39.ear "we only want 45 seconds from you Motson! " Coleman, sitting about
:03:40. > :03:44.four or five yards down shouted back from the other end "do what you want
:03:45. > :03:48.and let them sort it out". I'll never forget in 1990 in Cuba,
:03:49. > :03:54.Lynford Christie winning the 100 metres and the programme finished,
:03:55. > :03:58.we got off air and the phone rang from London, saying the satellite
:03:59. > :04:03.went down during 100 metres. He said, can you give us a bit of
:04:04. > :04:09.sound. He said "are you standing by, VT in London" and somebody said yes
:04:10. > :04:16.and he held his watch like this and went one, two, three and he said,
:04:17. > :04:22."even start and it's Lynford Christie". I think you will find
:04:23. > :04:29.that's good enough, he said. Two of the favourites are out of it
:04:30. > :04:37.now. David's last big job was at Sydney
:04:38. > :04:40.with all the satellite feeds and computerised graphics that we take
:04:41. > :04:45.so much for granted today. What a contrast all this was
:04:46. > :04:49.compared with his first live broadcast 45 years earlier. From
:04:50. > :04:54.where I'm sitting, it looks pretty good. 7-2 this afternoon Wolves v
:04:55. > :04:59.Manchester City and they are on their way back. David knew about
:05:00. > :05:06.athletics, partly because he was one himself, a very good one. He won the
:05:07. > :05:12.Manchester mile in 1949. I first became aware of the Olympic Games
:05:13. > :05:16.listening to a radio set in 1936. I was ten years old. And I've been
:05:17. > :05:22.fascinated by Olympic history ever since. I've now become part of it.
:05:23. > :05:29.But not the part I wanted! I was going to be the 15050 metre gold
:05:30. > :05:34.medallist, but I wasn't good enough -- 1500 metre. He often talked
:05:35. > :05:39.ability what had most impact on him as being a person, that was being in
:05:40. > :05:44.the Army actually because he was called up when he was 18. He was a
:05:45. > :05:48.PE Instructor, as well as working on the signals and things based in
:05:49. > :05:53.Kenya, so he had to grow up really fast. It taught him a lot of
:05:54. > :06:00.discipline in life and, you know, that stayed with him ever since.
:06:01. > :06:06.There were no media studies courses in those days, he just got on wit.
:06:07. > :06:10.At the tender age of 22, he'd become the Editor of the County Press in
:06:11. > :06:14.Cheshire, landing a job as a news Assistant at BBC Birmingham in 1954
:06:15. > :06:18.and he made his first television appearance on Sport Special, soon
:06:19. > :06:22.afterwards. Good evening and welcome to the second edition of Sports
:06:23. > :06:27.Special, the Saturday night programme. Those were the days when
:06:28. > :06:32.BBC announcers had such posh act send, they made even the Queen sound
:06:33. > :06:36.a little common. We are calling on Birmingham, up there our reporter
:06:37. > :06:41.David Coleman is bringing us the Midlands point of view. But not
:06:42. > :06:46.David. He was a grammar schoolboy, an ordinary boy with an
:06:47. > :06:49.extraordinary ability. The BBC, don't forget, it was people sat down
:06:50. > :06:56.in a dinner jacket and read the news. Up until the 60s, he wouldn't
:06:57. > :07:00.have been employed as a doorman, never mind a presenter, the '60s
:07:01. > :07:05.changed that. David came in with that tsunami, if you like, of
:07:06. > :07:13.working class and low middle class kids who found a way point to --
:07:14. > :07:18.into the BBC. Roy Swinbourne was taking the goals. We useded to love
:07:19. > :07:24.going up to see dad's parents as children because they lived in
:07:25. > :07:30.Manchester in Alderley Edge and it was the cobbled street, two up two
:07:31. > :07:35.down, outside toilet, it was Coronation Street revisited. It was
:07:36. > :07:40.fascinating. One person out of four in Burnley goes to see the football
:07:41. > :07:44.club in action. A higher percentage of the population than anywhere else
:07:45. > :07:49.in the country. You saw the way he had started his life and he'd really
:07:50. > :07:53.never changed. On Saturday this week, Peterborough United, the
:07:54. > :07:57.non-league club, go to Huddersfield Town, the Second Division club to
:07:58. > :08:01.meet them in the fourth round of the FA Cup. The first thing I knew about
:08:02. > :08:05.him was, he was working as a journalist for the BBC in
:08:06. > :08:08.Birmingham. I think he did an interview with Danny Blanchflower
:08:09. > :08:10.and I saw that and thought, well, here is a man we need to bring down
:08:11. > :08:23.to London. In 1958, he replaced Peter Dimmock
:08:24. > :08:25.as presenter of the BBC's news Saturday afternoon programme,
:08:26. > :08:29.Grandstand. He was to stay in that job for ten
:08:30. > :08:32.years. Ten hugely successful years.
:08:33. > :08:37.Welcome to the programme today. We have every one of the top
:08:38. > :08:41.international swimmers in Great Britain. He was broadcasting with
:08:42. > :08:46.the adrenaline sloshing around. It somehow had everybody sitting on the
:08:47. > :08:51.edges of their seats too. Everybody was very sharp and focussed.
:08:52. > :08:56.Everybody was on their game all the time when David was broadcasting. As
:08:57. > :09:02.well as live sport, Grandstand dipped its toe into nueshz cover
:09:03. > :09:07.covering stories such as The Beatles returning from the US from their
:09:08. > :09:14.triumphant tour in 1964. Never before have we seen scenes like
:09:15. > :09:18.these. He was the voice of sport. Television, athletic, swimming. His
:09:19. > :09:23.knowledge was quite remarkable, but I suppose if you do it for 350 years
:09:24. > :09:30.like David did, you are bound to gather something over the years. The
:09:31. > :09:35.latest on the FA Cup at Wembley, and sensational news too. On a Saturday
:09:36. > :09:39.morning he used to call me into the bathroom, he'd be there with his
:09:40. > :09:48.towel and the foam on his face and he'd said "I want you test me" these
:09:49. > :09:52.were the days when they had the special printer. They must be
:09:53. > :09:58.playing extra time. Celtic 1, Rangers 1. It's like so-and-so
:09:59. > :10:03.scores so many away wins and that kind of thing and he'd have it all
:10:04. > :10:08.and I'd test him every Saturday morning before he went. He believed
:10:09. > :10:16.in homework and had an attentive memory and wouldn't go into any
:10:17. > :10:23.set-up under-prepared. Bournemouth 0, Shrewsbury 0. He invented Final
:10:24. > :10:27.Score effectively. It was never done before ever. It was mimicked by a
:10:28. > :10:33.few others, but none reached the standards he did. When I watched
:10:34. > :10:38.Coleman in action on the teleprinter giving the football results, it was
:10:39. > :10:44.a delight. He was so skilful and knowledgeable at that. One just
:10:45. > :10:48.gazed in admiration, quite frankly. Brighton 1, Watford 4. Brighton
:10:49. > :10:51.remain third from bottom, Watford's first away win in 11 matches.
:10:52. > :10:58.Obviously today, there are people that do this wonderfully well, but
:10:59. > :11:05.David I think was the first. Before the technology came in to help him
:11:06. > :11:09.along and when you're the first, I guess everyone wants to build on
:11:10. > :11:13.what's gone before. What a great honour it is to have
:11:14. > :11:19.you with us in the Grandstand studio. Television was changing at a
:11:20. > :11:21.break neck speed. Live broadcasts were becoming routine. He handled
:11:22. > :11:36.them with great aplomb. This is the winning trophy is it? -
:11:37. > :11:41.risks of going live were only too obvious with television recording
:11:42. > :11:44.still in its infancy. In this new broadcasting world, timing was
:11:45. > :11:49.everything. Anyway, here is someone who is often
:11:50. > :11:55.seen, Peter O'Sullivan. The big race will be shown today on the great
:11:56. > :11:59.Victoria Cup. He worked on television, but we didn't think
:12:00. > :12:04.anything more of it, he could have driven a bus. He went to work and we
:12:05. > :12:11.didn't realise how important it was. He did take us in one Saturday
:12:12. > :12:15.morning, David and I went, my twin. The producer was called David. The
:12:16. > :12:20.screaming and shouting that went on...
:12:21. > :12:24.We could see dad on the monitor and he was listening to all this in his
:12:25. > :12:29.earphone and we are thinking, what is going on, you know, and you could
:12:30. > :12:34.see the clock and there's 30 seconds to go and it looks like bedlam.
:12:35. > :12:38.Suddenly it was cue David and he looks at the camera and gets on wit.
:12:39. > :12:42.It was amazing. At the start of the programme we were showing a Cup
:12:43. > :12:47.Final from Glasgow. By now, the space age arrived. Satellites wither
:12:48. > :12:50.bouncing pictures from continent to continent and David was reiring the
:12:51. > :12:57.new opportunities it gave him. Getting a rugby match and a fight.
:12:58. > :13:03.Everything going in there. How this game can possibly keep going...
:13:04. > :13:07.Chile v Italy, the first time the two countries have met, we hope it
:13:08. > :13:12.will be the last. By reason or by force is Chile's motto. Today they
:13:13. > :13:16.were prepared to be reasonable. The Italians only used force. And the
:13:17. > :13:21.result was a disaster for the World Cup.
:13:22. > :13:25.He was never short on an opinion and it chimed publicly. I'm sure there
:13:26. > :13:28.were people that used to get irritated but they were normally
:13:29. > :13:33.from vested interests in the sport. The public always liked people that
:13:34. > :13:37.go on television and give an unvarnished view of what you are
:13:38. > :13:40.about to watch or what you have just seen. If the up with is going to
:13:41. > :13:43.survive in its present form, something's got to be done about
:13:44. > :13:47.teams that play like this. After seeing the film tonight, you at home
:13:48. > :13:52.may well think that teams that play in this manner ought to be expelled
:13:53. > :13:58.immediately from the competition. See what you think.
:13:59. > :14:05.That was Salvatore. I think the game is over. Till Ashton on his way to
:14:06. > :14:09.the dressing room. I don't think there's ever been a football match
:14:10. > :14:15.played liabling this in Chile or indeed anywhere else in the world.
:14:16. > :14:21.One thing I would say about David Coleman more than anything else, he
:14:22. > :14:26.was a success because he was an enthusiast. He loved football. He
:14:27. > :14:30.did. He was at the stage where the world was sootedenly concentrating
:14:31. > :14:35.on football -- suddenly. As a football commentator, David
:14:36. > :14:43.pulled off the remarkable feat of combining his calm master art with
:14:44. > :14:49.the occasional touch of hysteria. He must score, he must score! Well,
:14:50. > :14:54.this is ridiculous. The Portuguese are torn apart.
:14:55. > :14:58.They wanted him to be more than a detached by stander, to feel that he
:14:59. > :15:02.was involved. His audience loved him for that.
:15:03. > :15:10.My first ever memory of a World Cup was really England playing in Mexico
:15:11. > :15:18.in 1970. That save from Gordon Banks brilliantly commentated on by David
:15:19. > :15:33.Coleman. Dame Janet rows. Oh, and he look looks like he's getting there.
:15:34. > :15:42.Pele! What a save! -- dangerous. He added occasion to the World Cups or
:15:43. > :15:49.the games. His voice is always the one I'll remember in football.
:15:50. > :16:02.Liverpool swarming forward knew. -- now. Keegan. Goal. Keegan does it.
:16:03. > :16:06.He once said to me, throw your homework away, but he didn't mean
:16:07. > :16:09.that literally, but he meant, I was getting bogged down with too many
:16:10. > :16:14.facts and figures, when really all that mattered was what was going
:16:15. > :16:17.Onuoha the pitch. That just meant I should describe and interpret it.
:16:18. > :16:29.These were great lessons I learned from him.
:16:30. > :16:38.Keegan and the one-two. And it's 3-1. The keeper buries his face in
:16:39. > :16:43.anguish. The first time I remember his persona coming across to me, the
:16:44. > :16:47.Sunderland fans will remember the 1973 Cup Final. We won 1-0 against
:16:48. > :17:01.Leeds, I remember running out in the street meeting my friends and they
:17:02. > :17:09.were all going, "1-0"! "Porterfield, 1-0! ". ".
:17:10. > :17:28.Astonishing. Her Royal Highness, the Duchess of Kent. And no wonder he
:17:29. > :17:31.kissed it. He made the 1-0, it wasn't an attempt to imitate him
:17:32. > :17:36.because I don't think anybody could, but people, if he didn't say it,
:17:37. > :17:42.they thought, what's happened to David. They expected it. Going to
:17:43. > :17:50.take him on. Round the back. Clark. 1-0!
:17:51. > :17:55.1-0. 1-0. Everyone used to say 1-0, that's it, you know. People would
:17:56. > :18:02.say, I wonder what he'll say when it's two. Best is upfront. There he
:18:03. > :18:12.is, the defence split. Can he do it? He surely must. What a goal to score
:18:13. > :18:20.and who can score it but George Best with the skill, the timing, the
:18:21. > :18:27.confidence, to take it on and on and on until the net was bare. You don't
:18:28. > :18:33.win matches if you don't take chances and he had such a
:18:34. > :18:37.distinctive phrase. That's how I remember David, as the football
:18:38. > :18:42.commentator that we all listened to. I remember the first thing I had to
:18:43. > :18:46.do, I had to go with him, he had a four-seater plane that took him from
:18:47. > :18:49.an aerodrome in Buckinghamshire to wherever the game was and flew him
:18:50. > :18:54.back in the evening. It was amazing, he came home for supper and came in
:18:55. > :18:59.to introduce Match Of The Day because he was a presenteder, as
:19:00. > :19:04.well as a commentator. He loved to come home, he'd rather come home
:19:05. > :19:09.than stay away, if possible. He'd rather come home to eat. He used to
:19:10. > :19:13.get stopped for speeding a lot. Pf If there were speed cameras then,
:19:14. > :19:20.like there are now, I don't think he'd have a licence. Going in the
:19:21. > :19:24.car and saying the run away train went over the hill and he blew the
:19:25. > :19:31.horn and we are all going, oh, no, we are going to get stopped by
:19:32. > :19:37.police. He'd carry on "the runaway train went over the hill and blew"
:19:38. > :19:42.and we loved it. . And he'd do it again. He wrote his car off coming
:19:43. > :19:46.back from an interview in Northampton and turned his car over
:19:47. > :19:51.eight times, came out with a scratch and got a taxi back to the studio to
:19:52. > :19:57.do the programme. That was what he was like. It had to be done. Very
:19:58. > :20:02.business-like. Mickey, how long have you been boxing? Six months.
:20:03. > :20:08.David was the master of many disciplines. His interviewing was
:20:09. > :20:12.opinionated but informed. He knew attitudes to broadcasting were
:20:13. > :20:19.changing, as society changed. He knew exactly what he could and could
:20:20. > :20:26.not get away with. I became number one. I have been loose in my
:20:27. > :20:30.beliefs. I've been an Islamic believer, I didn't pray like I
:20:31. > :20:34.should pray and I didn't eat like I should eat. Surely the most
:20:35. > :20:38.important thing for you is that your pride's been hurt? This is what you
:20:39. > :20:44.say. I didn't say my pride's been hurt. His interviewing technique was
:20:45. > :20:50.always good. He was never a waffler, that's something I've very much
:20:51. > :20:53.learned from him, never talk too much. We touched on the possibility
:20:54. > :20:59.of you getting a possibility as a direct person. What are you like at
:21:00. > :21:02.home? Quite normal in actual fact to. Be a direct person is quite a
:21:03. > :21:07.compliment because there's so many people not direct. I've mingled with
:21:08. > :21:12.politicians in my life and they are an absolute disgrace. His
:21:13. > :21:14.interviewing skills were fluent, he listened carefully, he wasn't afraid
:21:15. > :21:18.to interrupt if he had something to say. He wasn't, I have to say, not
:21:19. > :21:21.daunted by the prospect of interviewing very important people.
:21:22. > :21:26.That's because I think he had a great gift for putting people at
:21:27. > :21:30.ease. I'm not terribly sure how to start
:21:31. > :21:41.this interview. Do we start by calling you Sir Alfred? Ish at the
:21:42. > :21:47.beginning and finish off by where we left our previous meeting. Britain's
:21:48. > :21:52.soccer star Jimmy grieves is back in the country he seems to miss so
:21:53. > :21:56.much. He left eight days ago to honour his contract with Milan --
:21:57. > :22:01.Jimmy Greave St Helens. REPORTER: What's in the news? What
:22:02. > :22:09.do you mean? It's reported that you are not going back to Italy. Is that
:22:10. > :22:14.true? No, not at the moment, I'm going back Friday. You are going
:22:15. > :22:17.back are you? Certainly. He was a brave as well as talented
:22:18. > :22:21.broadcaster. There wasn't anything he wasn't prepared to have a go at
:22:22. > :22:27.doing. He never backed off. It was always full only with David. If you
:22:28. > :22:31.have never seen slow motion before, you can have a look at it for the
:22:32. > :22:38.first time in this country. Let's take them through. Gnash in the dark
:22:39. > :22:43.kit is clearly the winner. If we can check their placings. Sorry about
:22:44. > :22:48.that, as you might have gathered, we have not used that machine very
:22:49. > :22:52.often and need a bit of practise. We'll check later on how the boys
:22:53. > :22:55.finished. The big difference between them and
:22:56. > :23:01.now, black-and-white television and now, was that the equipment was
:23:02. > :23:08.absolutely awful. I mean, you could hear the clunk of the cameras,
:23:09. > :23:15.they'd go boing. You got down the defence. The first one was
:23:16. > :23:18.Callaghan? We might rescue that. Talking about the first being a
:23:19. > :23:25.classic there. If I keep talking, we might be able to rescue that. Both
:23:26. > :23:31.the en opening goals came from wingmen. If our presenter and you
:23:32. > :23:34.have an autocue, it's printed on toilet roll and it would break
:23:35. > :23:39.within 30 seconds, so you had to be prepared for that and David was. He
:23:40. > :23:43.was an exemplary pro. He never went into anything without being properly
:23:44. > :23:48.prepared. How do you like being described as the Prime Minister's
:23:49. > :23:52.secret weapon? Ah it's great, yes. I didn't get the bit where they said
:23:53. > :24:03.earning all these dollars for Britain. Are we sharing?
:24:04. > :24:07.By now, the BBC was beginning to build its sports programming around
:24:08. > :24:11.David. In 1968, he fronted a new concept
:24:12. > :24:19.based on exploiting his challenging style.
:24:20. > :24:25.Could be a bit Robin Dayish in his time. Interesting. Sportsnight with
:24:26. > :24:30.Coleman changed things a bit because, here for the first time,
:24:31. > :24:33.was the man who was in charge of the programme was the presenter, if your
:24:34. > :24:37.name is on the title, you should have the last say.
:24:38. > :24:41.Good evening, tonight the final of the commentator's competition, the
:24:42. > :24:45.BBC's nationwide search to find an extra commentator to join the team
:24:46. > :24:51.when we cover the World Cup in Mexico next year. When he was sat in
:24:52. > :24:54.the Coleman studio, you got the impression he was probably
:24:55. > :24:59.producing, commentating, producing, doing everything from that seat.
:25:00. > :25:05.Tells you something about what the BBC recognised. They recognised that
:25:06. > :25:13.putting his name in title, millions of viewers would recognise that that
:25:14. > :25:19.programme was fronted by one of the world's best sports broadcasters,
:25:20. > :25:23.David Coleman. He was a hard man to avoid but the vast growing sporting
:25:24. > :25:27.audience seemed perfectly happy. He seemed to have his finger on the
:25:28. > :25:35.pulse of the sporting nation. There you are, a wonderful present for
:25:36. > :25:40.you. Two ?4 stand tickets. Thank you. Enjoy the match. No doubt about
:25:41. > :25:45.Leicester City winning? No. It wasn't just his voice, it was
:25:46. > :25:50.everything, Sportsnight with Coleman. It made it real to have
:25:51. > :25:53.him. I'm getting a tired about hearing about the magic of the
:25:54. > :25:56.Brazilians. Do you think we have taken anything out of the World Cup?
:25:57. > :26:02.Have you learned anything from the World Cup? He would pin people. The
:26:03. > :26:06.days of the soft soap of an interview which actually we have
:26:07. > :26:11.almost got back into was something he changed. He changed the rules. If
:26:12. > :26:16.you went on that show and you were the international President of a
:26:17. > :26:20.sports federation, you either were very naive or stupid to go on there
:26:21. > :26:24.unbriefed. I've seen him absolutely take people apart and he took
:26:25. > :26:29.pleasure in it. Do you regard yourself as being tough? No, I
:26:30. > :26:33.don't. This is just about the most
:26:34. > :26:37.representative and complete array of sportsmen ever assembled in the
:26:38. > :26:44.country. Top of the table, last year's winner, David Broom. The most
:26:45. > :26:48.eagerly awaited programme was Sports Review of this year and this is
:26:49. > :26:52.where his confrontational style met his match. Since you have been so
:26:53. > :26:57.successful, you find it so relaxing? Not really, no. Competitions aren't
:26:58. > :26:59.at all relaxing, no. Which section of the three-day event do you enjoy
:27:00. > :27:10.best? The end. How much time have you got for
:27:11. > :27:14.training and what do you do? Normally speaking, I rely on the
:27:15. > :27:18.amount of riding I manage to do to keep me fit, but on that particular
:27:19. > :27:22.occasion, I didn't summon up enough energy to do some extra.
:27:23. > :27:26.Spend our life asking people questions, we do it all the time.
:27:27. > :27:29.It's being on the end of other people's questions, you slightly
:27:30. > :27:35.feel for them. On the other hand, that's their business, you know,
:27:36. > :27:39.supply the answers to the questions. I think he probably subsequently may
:27:40. > :27:44.have thought he was foolish to ask me what fitness work I did when I
:27:45. > :27:50.did my exercises and I said I did them at night and stopped. He looked
:27:51. > :27:55.at me and the people round about me starting to titter and that was the
:27:56. > :28:00.end of the interview. Early morning training? Actually, it was late at
:28:01. > :28:12.night. Oh!
:28:13. > :28:16.LAUGHTER. His relationship with famous limp
:28:17. > :28:19.Cumbrians and the games themselves would eventually come to define his
:28:20. > :28:25.later years in broadcasting -- Olympians.
:28:26. > :28:32.Now we only have a few moments to wait before the climax of the events
:28:33. > :28:36.in Tokyo. As we wait for what has been described as the best Olympic
:28:37. > :28:42.athletics ever, meet the girl who ran the race of her life yesterday.
:28:43. > :28:48.Ann packer had six demanding days, before the record-breaking 800
:28:49. > :28:52.metres and she spoke with David Coleman just after. The French girl
:28:53. > :28:56.was well clear. Did you think you were going to catch her? I think at
:28:57. > :29:02.that moment I did because I had no pain... David always had a very
:29:03. > :29:07.personal approach to people that he was going to be talking about and I
:29:08. > :29:12.think really that's why he was able to communicate so well to the public
:29:13. > :29:17.the sort of thoughts and feelings and ups and downs of a sportsman's
:29:18. > :29:21.career. Packer on the outside. Got to do a
:29:22. > :29:26.lot of running to get there. And she's doing it. He was a very good
:29:27. > :29:30.athlete himself and every other athlete that worked with him will
:29:31. > :29:34.feel that the commentary he did for them was the special one. And it was
:29:35. > :29:38.special buzzth because he delivered a lot of special ones. I thought
:29:39. > :29:44.after I finished I'd give anything to hear your voice getting excited.
:29:45. > :29:49.We are about to send the sound commentary up to London. Can we pick
:29:50. > :29:52.up the last part of it. Here she goes on the outside. A tremendous
:29:53. > :29:57.run! She's going to do it. Ann Packer is going to take the gold!
:29:58. > :30:01.His voice was breaking and people remember his commentary more than my
:30:02. > :30:08.race I think. What a consolation. Ann Packer wins.
:30:09. > :30:17.Fantastic run! Fantastic indeed, I must say. I've
:30:18. > :30:21.worked on athletics and they say every time they look back at their
:30:22. > :30:25.greatest, favourite moment, it's the words of David Coleman that bring
:30:26. > :30:32.them to tears. They say it would. The same if it wasn't with David
:30:33. > :30:35.Coleman. He was a bit of a mentor really. We were able to talk to him
:30:36. > :30:38.about what we were doing in training and he was always interested and
:30:39. > :30:42.because of his knowledge, he was able to appreciate how things were
:30:43. > :30:52.going for us. You are on the kerb and you seem to be blocked. I
:30:53. > :30:57.interrupted him one day and he said, I'm just going up the hill. His
:30:58. > :31:04.focus was unbelievable. He was still running in his 70s.
:31:05. > :31:07.Thank you very much for coming out and breaking training. Thank you
:31:08. > :31:14.very much. It's a great pleasure to be with you again. He presented no
:31:15. > :31:24.fewer than 11 Olympic Games, from Rome in 19609 to Sydney in 2000.
:31:25. > :31:29.-- 1960. They've been all over the place in this race. Undoubtedly, his
:31:30. > :31:35.most challenging broadcast was Munich in 1972.
:31:36. > :31:40.There's now a total security clampdown on the Olympic village.
:31:41. > :31:43.He was on air for several hours live and unscripted during one of the
:31:44. > :31:49.most harrowing episodes in sporting history.
:31:50. > :31:54.I don't think there's any question that what was such a tragedy was
:31:55. > :32:00.certainly David's finest hour as a broadcaster because he had nothing
:32:01. > :32:08.to talk about for the better part of a day. Yet he made it all work. I
:32:09. > :32:12.remember very, very clearly sitting there marvelling because I did
:32:13. > :32:17.think, in that situation, what do you do now. I thought, he didn't
:32:18. > :32:20.have any help, but he was there as a sole eyewitness of that
:32:21. > :32:23.extraordinary event and he was brilliant. The general opinion
:32:24. > :32:28.seemed to be that things would start happening tonight. And the general
:32:29. > :32:34.impression has been too that the Germans were extremely anxious to
:32:35. > :32:38.settle. I was in Munich with him when that was happening, doing
:32:39. > :32:43.another sport and the way he calmly came into the studio and grasped the
:32:44. > :32:46.significance of that event was quite an education. He ehe sat there for
:32:47. > :32:51.hours commentating on the developing scene as to what was going to happen
:32:52. > :32:55.to the hostages. We'll have to let you know later on during the
:32:56. > :33:00.programme exactly what's happened. It was the rest day on track and
:33:01. > :33:05.field and I'd gone to bed at five in the morning looking forward to a day
:33:06. > :33:09.off. There was a sudden pounding on the door. I looked at the watch, it
:33:10. > :33:14.was nine o'clock in the morning and the door was shaking. I sensed
:33:15. > :33:19.something very viewed -- I said something very rude and it's my day
:33:20. > :33:24.off and it was the late Ron Pickering shouting "David you've got
:33:25. > :33:28.to wake up, they need you, some Israelis have been killed, we think
:33:29. > :33:32.Arabs are responsible, they are holding Israelis hostage and
:33:33. > :33:37.threatening to murder somebody every one or two hours".
:33:38. > :33:46.I remember looking at the clock with a minute to go and everything was so
:33:47. > :33:56.still in the studio. We started a countdown from a minute. I kept my
:33:57. > :34:02.eye on the big clock and Paul Fox came through to me on the head phone
:34:03. > :34:05.and said, David, you may well be taken off the air, the security
:34:06. > :34:10.people have been on, we understand the terrorists are listening to you
:34:11. > :34:15.in the Israeli block". Pf These are live pictures of the
:34:16. > :34:19.Israeli block. It's now 20 seconds before 12
:34:20. > :34:23.o'clock. I couldn't do anything about it. If
:34:24. > :34:26.we were taken off the air by the security people I couldn't do
:34:27. > :34:29.anything about it. We never established whether they knew what
:34:30. > :34:34.was going on, the terrorists. I remember, you know, as studio clocks
:34:35. > :34:42.do, the finger shivering second by second as it ticked round.
:34:43. > :34:47.It seemed almost, you know, in tune with the moment.
:34:48. > :34:56.As we waited for the attack. It didn't happen.
:34:57. > :34:59.I hear that at this moment, the helicopters are lifting off the
:35:00. > :35:04.special pad in the Olympic village where they've been standing since
:35:05. > :35:11.this afternoon. That is the helicopter.
:35:12. > :35:20.It appeared that an exchange was in progress. Except that we heard some
:35:21. > :35:25.shots had been fired. In the end, it turned out that there were 11
:35:26. > :35:33.members of whom the two had been killed and nine left. There was a
:35:34. > :35:45.policeman and five terrorists. It was a very, very un uncertain and
:35:46. > :35:49.unreal occasion. If The Olympic Games stands still.
:35:50. > :35:55.The flags in the stadium at half-mast. The citizens of Munich,
:35:56. > :36:01.the thousands of competitors and officials bewildered and appalled.
:36:02. > :36:05.He got so much credit for how he dealt with that situation, being
:36:06. > :36:10.just a sports journalth journalist to a lot of people. -- sports
:36:11. > :36:17.journalist. It was his training and instinct and the fact that he's so
:36:18. > :36:25.well read that he has the voice to deliver emotion that made what he
:36:26. > :36:31.did quite special. This hastily conceived memorial
:36:32. > :36:38.ceremony, conceived yesterday for the two dead Israelis, but now
:36:39. > :36:43.embracing the men who died last night in the bloody chaos at the
:36:44. > :36:47.airport. Let's be clear, what happened back in 1972 at those
:36:48. > :36:51.Olympic Games in Munich was one of the biggest atrocities we have ever
:36:52. > :36:58.seen at a big international sporting event. Maybe we need to think about
:36:59. > :37:03.recent atrocities that we have known that have made a huge impact on our
:37:04. > :37:06.consciousness. Just imagine an Olympic Games overshadowed by that
:37:07. > :37:11.kind of attack. It really was absolutely shocking and no-one had
:37:12. > :37:14.seen anything like it before. It wasn't very easy going on with
:37:15. > :37:27.it. I asked to be excused from some of the events the next day. I had to
:37:28. > :37:36.go on commentating but I never did feel in tune with the Games. The
:37:37. > :37:43.closing was especially difficult. Above the stadium, shining very
:37:44. > :37:49.brightly in in darkness, a gigantic man-made rainbow. This replacing the
:37:50. > :37:57.traditional fireworks that normally signal the end of the Olympic Games.
:37:58. > :38:03.Munich was really the first time that I really watched an Olympic
:38:04. > :38:11.Games because this was the sport I was involved in. Again, it was
:38:12. > :38:16.sadly, I have to say, a sublime piece of observation, not a
:38:17. > :38:21.commentary, it was an observation. Today, people might say, why would
:38:22. > :38:25.you have a sports commentator commentating on this kind of
:38:26. > :38:30.terrorist atrocity, you might not expect that. What they don't realise
:38:31. > :38:44.is that David, with his journalistic background, was ideally equipped.
:38:45. > :39:34.David's role and enthusiasm could border on hysteria at times. You
:39:35. > :39:41.could see the concentration in his eyes. Steve Ovett in fourth place.
:39:42. > :39:46.Those blue eyes like chips of ice. He was the commentator picking out
:39:47. > :39:51.and encapsulating it with just one of the great lines and we knew what
:39:52. > :39:55.he meant, his eyes like chips of ice. Coe has a lot to do. He's
:39:56. > :40:02.coming from a long way back. They have been all over the place. Coe
:40:03. > :40:07.leaves in disappointment as his great rival, Steve Ovett celebrates.
:40:08. > :40:11.He was never short of giving you advice. I remember returning from
:40:12. > :40:14.the 1994 I think they were, the Commonwealth Games in Victoria in
:40:15. > :40:18.Canada, sitting next to him on the flight and half way through the
:40:19. > :40:25.flight, actually taking me to task for the way I ran the 800 metres,
:40:26. > :40:34.you know. 14 years earlier. Ovett's first defeat.
:40:35. > :40:39.What a comeback for Coe. Hardly anyone would tip him for this race
:40:40. > :40:46.but use don't become a bad athlete in a week. He was never short on
:40:47. > :40:53.advice. In fairness, he was usually accurate too. North-east not going
:40:54. > :40:57.to be caught. -- he's not going to be caught. He's got a lot of sport
:40:58. > :41:02.and of all things British and he always wanted us to do really well
:41:03. > :41:06.and it came across. It wasn't so much that he was being biassed
:41:07. > :41:12.towards us, I think he wanted us to do really well at whatever level we
:41:13. > :41:19.were at. Sebastien Co E-bacc at his best, is the Olympic champion again
:41:20. > :41:22.In the moments of broadcasting, sitting if in a hotel lobby or
:41:23. > :41:27.restaurant, that's where his love of it came out, he should have done
:41:28. > :41:30.this and that and he's not coached properly and why didn't he do that,
:41:31. > :41:35.you know and you would think about him and listen to him and think, he
:41:36. > :41:40.knows what he's talking about. He was excited. I remember it like it
:41:41. > :41:46.was yesterday. It's Lynford Christie! His voice and the tone
:41:47. > :41:51.asth and everything else. He is the Olympic champion! The greatest prize
:41:52. > :41:55.in sport. He was generally excited and happy
:41:56. > :42:03.and pleased that I won. The faster man in the world. Sally Gunnell. One
:42:04. > :42:07.to go. He goes for it and gets it rights. Pf
:42:08. > :42:13.Mike Johnson, one of the greatest Olympic athletes in history.
:42:14. > :42:19.Holmes has been caught by the break. At his last Olympic Games, he found
:42:20. > :42:27.himself commentating alongside some of the athletes he helped bring to
:42:28. > :42:32.prominence. When I first sat down next to David
:42:33. > :42:36.in the commentary box, there is nobody bigger, there hasn't been
:42:37. > :42:42.anybody bigger in terms of sports broadcasting, so to say I felt
:42:43. > :42:46.inferior would be an understatement. Around the national winners
:42:47. > :42:50.enclosure, a great deal of excitement about the Liverpool and
:42:51. > :42:57.Manchester United match. The latest score was 1-1. Here now, reporting
:42:58. > :43:01.from Manchester, is Barry Davies. BBC Sport was nothing as tolerant
:43:02. > :43:05.with each other as they are now. It was quite the reverse. What do you
:43:06. > :43:11.want to do now? Say clearly what you want to do now. To say it was
:43:12. > :43:16.hostile, people might cringe at that word, but it was in many ways and
:43:17. > :43:20.words were exchanged and people call each other names that now they would
:43:21. > :43:24.have the recipient running to the human resources department in five
:43:25. > :43:30.seconds. Ready to turn over. Dayed individual. No score. He accepted
:43:31. > :43:34.the fact that it was the programme and made it clear his Ed torial
:43:35. > :43:38.views should be taken into account. That's putting it politely. He was
:43:39. > :43:43.very demanding of editors and producers and, if the cameras wasn't
:43:44. > :43:46.in the right place or the sound wasn't right, they would know about
:43:47. > :43:50.it, they would get the sharp end of his tongue. Keep your camera still
:43:51. > :43:55.now, bloody chattering all the way through it, get your bloody finger
:43:56. > :43:56.out and leave your cameras in the same position, you've got one bloody
:43:57. > :44:12.zoom over there, you can cover it. David in the commentary box was the
:44:13. > :44:16.boss and it was like when you played with him in the commentary box, you
:44:17. > :44:20.were playing for best team. Firstly, I joined the BBC to commentate and I
:44:21. > :44:27.was really nervous, indoor meeting at Birmingham and I went to turn up
:44:28. > :44:35.there and I knew how the reputation he had for being precious in the box
:44:36. > :44:40.and I was edging my way and he went "Crammy, sit next to me, you are
:44:41. > :44:47.next to me, bum" and he looked after me and made sure nobody would get to
:44:48. > :44:52.me and he looked after me. If anybody from the outside criticised
:44:53. > :44:56.his team, he'd defend you to the hilt. At the same time within that
:44:57. > :45:03.team, if you did anything wrong, you would be the first to know about it.
:45:04. > :45:07.The relationships were important then. There were people who hadn't
:45:08. > :45:12.been there so long and I realised certain parts of the production
:45:13. > :45:19.staff were fearful of him, really fearful, about upsetting him. .
:45:20. > :45:25.Rather terrified of him because obviously he was a very exacting
:45:26. > :45:30.person in what he wanted and he wasn't somebody that suffers fools
:45:31. > :45:35.gladly. I was sat down at the 1991 World
:45:36. > :45:41.Championships in Tokyo and David leaned over and pulled me head phone
:45:42. > :45:46.just from the side of my ear and whispered "Bob's record that's stood
:45:47. > :45:50.for so long is now Consigned to the history books". That's pretty much
:45:51. > :45:58.what I said and David just smiled, you know, he was very giving. If you
:45:59. > :46:06.got it wrong, woe betide, you got a tongue lashing from Mr David
:46:07. > :46:10.Coleman. Don't forget... Did I forget
:46:11. > :46:15.anything. The week before a recording, the researchers would
:46:16. > :46:19.come up with questions for the show and he'd ring up the research and
:46:20. > :46:24.say "I've been thinking, about that question for Lynford Christie"...
:46:25. > :46:30.The Americans broke the world record. If there was anything going
:46:31. > :46:36.wrong, production-wise, he could give out a volley. I'm going to put
:46:37. > :46:44.a little bit of that on your nose. Is that nonallergic? Yes. Are you
:46:45. > :46:49.sure? Yes. I am sure. The rants were for a reason. He wanted to it be
:46:50. > :46:55.correct and if it wasn't, it wouldn't do.
:46:56. > :47:00.Question of sport was conceived as a regional show for Manchester in
:47:01. > :47:07.1968. It just might work, they thought, and how it was a huge hit.
:47:08. > :47:15.BBC One grabbed it and they have never let it go and the Coleman
:47:16. > :47:21.career took another trajectory. Welcome to' question of sport with
:47:22. > :47:25.Ally McCoist and John Parrott. We used to look forward to Dave
:47:26. > :47:29.presenting it. He had a lot of jokes.
:47:30. > :47:35.CHEERING AND APPLAUSE None of the team Captains always
:47:36. > :47:40.used to go for away because David would absolutely rip you apart if
:47:41. > :47:45.you didn't get your rugby question right. Pick a number and recognise
:47:46. > :47:51.the person. Number six, please, David. What he'd do is, he'd say
:47:52. > :47:55.it's that Irish jockey and David would be going, I'm sure it is,
:47:56. > :48:07.egging him on a bit. Heired go "I know who that is, it's Jim Reed, the
:48:08. > :48:17.jockey". ". Who is it? Princess Anne. It's not is it? I said, I'll
:48:18. > :48:22.get beheaded for this. I thought, it looks a bit like Princess Anne.
:48:23. > :48:27.David was nodding his head. We didn't know she was coming on the
:48:28. > :48:32.following week. I ran in a race at Cheltenham. If you went all the way
:48:33. > :48:37.around, it was filthy and if I hadn't recognised the colours, I
:48:38. > :48:40.wouldn't have recognised myself so I wouldn't have blamed anybody else
:48:41. > :48:45.for not recognising me. Tough ability to get everybody just to
:48:46. > :48:50.enjoy it, he did. I think his touch beforehand in terms of geftzing
:48:51. > :48:54.people to relax and feel they were very much part of the team and it
:48:55. > :48:58.was very much just a game, you know, was essential, to be honest --
:48:59. > :49:03.getting people to relax. With Captains like that, he could have
:49:04. > :49:08.got overwhelmed I think. Who became America's first world individual
:49:09. > :49:13.three day event champion? Bruce Davidson. Good stuff. One of the
:49:14. > :49:18.things that helped us gel together is the fact we both had this love of
:49:19. > :49:24.sport and used to watch it even when not working, so yes, we had a fair
:49:25. > :49:28.bit in common. The sports personalities they had on had to
:49:29. > :49:31.have won something and be at a certain standard and I think my
:49:32. > :49:35.father was quite keen on that. It was great fun, quite a family
:49:36. > :49:41.orientated show that we used to go to when filming in London with our
:49:42. > :49:45.own families. We used to have Sunday lunch first with all the crew and
:49:46. > :49:49.the different guests because they brought their families along. It was
:49:50. > :50:01.a nice time, a time for my children actually to enjoy his broadcasting.
:50:02. > :50:05.Question of sport was the programme that my grandad did. I got thrown
:50:06. > :50:12.off the set once. I must have been 18 months, two years old and every
:50:13. > :50:17.time they went "take one", it was like "grandad, I'm here" and it was
:50:18. > :50:22.like "shush, stop it" and sure enough "get the child off the set,
:50:23. > :50:26.please! ". You know you've hit the big time
:50:27. > :50:30.when your show becomes the object of popular satire.
:50:31. > :50:41.Starting backwards. Quite extraordinary. Do you think that's
:50:42. > :50:47.what happened? Yes. Is that what happened next? Do you think that's
:50:48. > :50:52.what happened next? Yes, yes. When the action stops that,'s what
:50:53. > :50:54.happens next. Good evening. Tonight we combine the first day of
:50:55. > :51:01.competition at the Moscow Olympic Games with the highlights of... Yes
:51:02. > :51:05.of sport was an is the icon Is showpiece for sport and was much
:51:06. > :51:15.paradied for David's capacity for his on-air gaffes. That's where we
:51:16. > :51:25.start and Harry sets the scene. He was often the butt of comedians,
:51:26. > :51:28.always affection. Yes, that's Piers Morgan telling me not to forget to
:51:29. > :51:32.ask someone behind me about his shirt. I'll tell you about that in a
:51:33. > :51:38.moment or so. It's all going on here. Why did you come from behind
:51:39. > :51:44.my back. All the best things at television you can't see. . His
:51:45. > :51:54.professionalism won him the respect of his peers. I've got relatives in
:51:55. > :52:04.there. This first London Marathon is surely already the most remarkable
:52:05. > :52:11.success even before it's started. Pf He was as good in snied as he was at
:52:12. > :52:16.the first Olympic Games in Rome in 1960. Can the New Zealander do it?
:52:17. > :52:22.Yes, it's a medal for New Zealand. 40 years of the Olympic Games, some
:52:23. > :52:26.record to be proud of. Whether it's 40 years of Olympic broadcasting, 40
:52:27. > :52:34.kilometres in a marathon or 40 seconds at the microphone, knowing
:52:35. > :52:40.when to wind up is a tough decision. Winding it up then and for a moment
:52:41. > :52:45.it looked as though she might break, but no. We all knew David was going
:52:46. > :52:49.to leave the BBC and we wanted to give him the most glorious send-off
:52:50. > :52:55.because he'd touched all of our lives in one way or another. He
:52:56. > :53:00.didn't want that. But I guess that is the man he is. He didn't want a
:53:01. > :53:04.big send-off, he didn't want to be patted on the back and be sent on
:53:05. > :53:09.his way. When you've loved something so much, to give it away is the
:53:10. > :53:13.hardest decision of all. Don't run, David. As much as he loved his job,
:53:14. > :53:18.there was something that meant even more to David. His wife, their
:53:19. > :53:21.family of six and grandchildren were a source of pride deeper than any
:53:22. > :53:31.award or recognition. May 69 that was. I think he was
:53:32. > :53:35.proud of so many things he's done. Being presented with his OBE, it's
:53:36. > :53:40.not something he mentioned a lot, but I'm sure that was a proud
:53:41. > :53:45.moment. Sam, my younger sister and me were
:53:46. > :53:49.the two of the six that that were picked out the cast of thousands to
:53:50. > :53:53.go and watch him get the award from the Queen. It was a fantastic day,
:53:54. > :53:57.he was very, very proud and when we all got together for lunch
:53:58. > :54:02.afterwards, it was a fantastic time and I think it was something which
:54:03. > :54:04.quietly he was just really very pleased to receive. But didn't brag
:54:05. > :54:13.about it. The lifestyle we had, as children,
:54:14. > :54:19.we were so lucky because we were constantly as a big family going out
:54:20. > :54:24.for lunches, going round to nanny's for a barbecue, honestly we weren't
:54:25. > :54:27.allowed to miss those vents, you had to have an extremely good reason
:54:28. > :54:34.because grandad would be straight on the phone to you "where are you? ".
:54:35. > :54:39.". I used to play football. I would stand with my headmaster and I went
:54:40. > :54:43."that's my grandad, that's David Coleman" so I knew it got a
:54:44. > :54:47.reaction, it made the older generation stop. Next thing I know,
:54:48. > :54:52.there's prose there to see grandad giving all the awards to each team
:54:53. > :54:58.and he said "hello darling" and gave it to me. That's always going to be
:54:59. > :55:05.a memory for me, always. He likes to sit in his chair a lot
:55:06. > :55:10.drinking his red wine. As much as grandad was the Head of The family,
:55:11. > :55:14.nan ran the family. She's probably the only person that could tell
:55:15. > :55:22.grandad what to do because, as we all know, he was rather stubborn.
:55:23. > :55:27.Our dad has these football songs and on one of the songs it has "what a
:55:28. > :55:33.save" and we couldn't believe it was him at first, then we heard it and
:55:34. > :55:38.we were look, "oh my God, that's actually grandad".
:55:39. > :55:42.I cried every time he left home, I have to be honest. I can remember
:55:43. > :55:47.crying most times when he was going to go away. But I knew he had to go
:55:48. > :55:48.and once he'd gone it was fine and obviously we were able to watch him
:55:49. > :55:59.on the TV. David died just before Christmas. A
:56:00. > :56:04.time to bring families and many friends together.
:56:05. > :56:08.I was with him when he passed and we'd all spoken about, this is what
:56:09. > :56:14.is going to happen, you know, but the shock of, you know, the volume
:56:15. > :56:16.of people, speaking about grandad, people I didn't know knew him. It
:56:17. > :56:29.was shocking. It was incredible. I was actually in
:56:30. > :56:38.New Zealand when dad passed and so with the media and, you know,
:56:39. > :56:43.computers and whatever... When I look on my Twitter account and see
:56:44. > :56:48.my grandad's trail on Iain Duncan Smith e Twitter, a concept he never
:56:49. > :57:02.would have understood, that's when I realised, maybe he was famous. -- --
:57:03. > :57:08.trail on Twitter. He influenced people in the coming generations, of
:57:09. > :57:13.which I count myself to be one. He created a ridiculous buzz. When you
:57:14. > :57:19.consider what he's done, why wouldn't he?
:57:20. > :57:25.For me, the sport has been enhanced by having David Coleman as his
:57:26. > :57:31.commentator. Overwhelming. And a shock to me and
:57:32. > :57:38.very emotional to see how much he was respected and loved.
:57:39. > :57:44.He gave me a lot of help on-screen but probably great advice he gave me
:57:45. > :57:49.offscreen as well. I don't think if I'd gone to any agent, they wouldn't
:57:50. > :57:54.have had the inside knowledge that he did. So yes, I have a lot to
:57:55. > :57:57.thank him for. His Ed torial instincts and the way he changed
:57:58. > :58:01.sports presentation for me are the things that I will remember him for.
:58:02. > :58:06.There'll not be another David Coleman.
:58:07. > :58:11.He just set such a high bar. There were so many great commentators in
:58:12. > :58:18.that Rae and I think they had to raise the bar because David was so
:58:19. > :58:23.good. It was his journalistic background and training that made
:58:24. > :58:29.him so valuable to us and the BBC and to the audience at home because
:58:30. > :58:35.they understood that here was a top professional at work, not just a
:58:36. > :58:40.pretty face. Pf I think to have lived such a crazy
:58:41. > :58:47.and manic life and then in your final hours to just be so peaceful,
:58:48. > :58:53.he couldn't have wished for more. It's a strange world in which we
:58:54. > :58:59.live. Totally strange. From one moment from the bigs... How he kept
:59:00. > :59:07.that back, only Gordon Banks will know. The next moment, you are in
:59:08. > :59:11.despair... And the news from Munich is there's now a total security
:59:12. > :59:17.clampdown on the Olympic village. I've got some very, very happy
:59:18. > :59:24.memories. On the outside, a tremendous run. Is she going to do
:59:25. > :59:29.it? Ann Packer is going to take it. Sebastien Co E-bacc at his best. A
:59:30. > :59:34.remarkable sight. Certainly one of the most remarkable sights in
:59:35. > :59:44.Britain today. I say to all of you, thank you very much indeed.