Jimmy Magees commentary

Jimmy is a legend. Glad he's still commentating. Loved him on Know Your Sport too. The Memory Man!

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Originally Posted by geysir

Owls, what were the the reasons (out of his control) that prevented David from carrying on? Was it the crash?
The F1 reject web page doesn´t say except that after a successful season he all but retired and turned his attention to other matters.

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In F1? His team, Shadow, went bankrupt and he didn't get offered another drive. Instead he got offered a drive for Mazda sportscars and drove in the Le Mans 24 hours race winning his class. After some years of that, age eventually caught up. He now commentates on F1 for Setanta and has a column during the season in the Sunday Indo.

Going back to commentators, my favourite (might have said this already) was Phillip Green.

Phil Greene :)
Ronnie to Johnny, passes over to Frank, Frank moves like lightening along the wing, leaves the full back for dead, crosses the ball, headed out - not cleared - Mick Leech hits it on the volley, we scored.

OF is a keen cricket fan.

I thought Owlsfan was a Rovers fan which could partly explain why he has a soft spot for Phil Greene.

Brush Shiels was on RTE a few years ago and he sang a famous well known Kris Kristofferson song except he altered the title to '' Me And Jimmy Magee'' :D