Bring Me the Sports Jacket of Arthur Montford: An Adventure Through Scottish Football

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Smith, Mark (4 December 2014). "Stramash at legendary commentator's funeral". The Herald. Glasgow . Retrieved 5 January 2021.

The word legend is massively overused but Arthur Montford genuinely was. A lovely man & a massive part of my generation's youth. Despite being committed to Scotsport, Montford continued to continuity announce with STV by covering irregular shifts as a relief continuity announcer (often out-of-vision, sometimes in-vision) on occasions of holidays, illness or other staff absences - where he would often read the lunchtime and evening Scottish news bulletins, announce the daytime and evening programmes as billed and close the station at around midnight with, of course, the friendly and reassuring closedown sequence when “we hoped you enjoyed our programmes today and you will join us again in the morning at 9.30am”, His easy confidence made him one of the station's most popular personalities. [7] [8]In May 2010, Montford received the SPFA Special Merit award for his services to football broadcasting and journalism alongside fellow broadcaster Archie Macpherson. [13] Other positions [ edit ] https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=9&v=OyQUI79WSW4&feature=emb_title%7Cquote= ...and that's disaster, absolute disaster for Scotland! Hannan, Martin (28 November 2014). "Obituary: Arthur Montford, broadcaster and journalist". The Scotsman . Retrieved 28 November 2014.

AN STV spokeswoman, said: “Arthur Montford made an immense contribution to sporting life in Scotland and was an STV legend hosting over 2000 episodes of Scotsport over three decades.With the Scotland games and a few bigger games, then I think he really showed that he was a real Scotland supporter. He was very diplomatic when it came to club football. Montford's daughter Vivian and grandchildren Julie and Craig then recalled their own memories of the broadcaster, who also worked in print and radio journalism. Arthur Montford (25 May 1929 – 26 November 2014) [1] was a Scottish Television sports journalist, best known for his 32-year tenure as the presenter of Scottish Television's Scotsport. Although he was most associated with football, he covered a number of other sports for ITV, notably golf. [2] Early life [ edit ]