The Sports Commentators

About

The soundtrack to your sporting lives: original commentary notes from the great voices of sport

The father of one of our founders is the long-standing BBC rugby commentator, Nigel Starmer-Smith, who became the inspiration for the business. Sadly, Nigel now suffers with dementia and it was when his son, Charlie, was going through his memorabilia that he re-discovered his commentary notes to four decades of rugby matches, and hit upon the idea of creating framed commentary notes for sports fans.

Based in Oxfordshire, we have painstakingly sourced the original commentary notes to the great games ever played and we work directly with

around 100 leading commentators. Our in-house designers to turn them truly unique, premium memorabilia for sports fans without ever changing the original notes. Crossings-out, errors, rain spatter, coffee stains are all part of the story for these are the actual, original notes prepared and used by leading broadcasters live on air complete with stats, storylines, player insights and talking points from the occasion itself.

We our proud of the feedback we get as customers repeatedly tell us these sheet are so much more emotive than usual memorabilia and represent a slice of sporting history. Each item is designed, printed and packed and shipped in-house with loving care.

We are also proud that we support a range of charities close to our hearts and those of our commentators. These include The Alzheimer's Society and The Grand Prix Trust.

For rugby fans, the collection includes the legendary British Lions tours of 1974, 1997 and 2017, the Welsh wizards of the 70s, the Will Carling Grand Slam-winning England teams of the 90s, Jonny Wilkinson’ last gasp glory in the 2003 World Cup, the Red Roses World Cup win in 2014 and 2025 and all recent Six Nations supremacy – plus the best of the Premiership, domestic and European Cups.

For football supporters, there’s the 1996 World Cup Final of course; Italia ‘90 with Gazza, Schillachi, Miller and Matthaus and Southgate’s England sides that came so near in 2020 and 2024 – plus, of course, the key Premier League, FA Cup, Champions League matches and more.

And it doesn’t stop there. For cricket fans the platform includes the amazing scorecards compiled by Test Match Special’s statistician, Andy Zaltzman, of the 2019 Cricket World Cup Final when England won in that nerve-shredding “Super Over” against New Zealand, as well as well as Alison Mitchell's intricate notes to Ben Stokes' miraculous innings at Headingly in the 2019 Ashes.

For Formula One followers there are David Croft’s detailed notes on all the high octane thrills including the epic title decider between Hamilton and Verstappen in Abu Dhabi in 2021 and Lando Norris's 2025 title.

For golf fans there are Rory McIlroy's back-to-back Masters with the notes by Ewan Murray and Iain Carter as well as some of the best Ryder Cup clashes.

For boxing fans there Ian Darke's detailed notes to some of the greatest fights of all time from Hagler versus Hearns to Tyson against Holyfield, while for cycling fans there are Carlton Kirby’s hand-written charts including when British riders remarkably won all three Grand Tours in 2018. And SO much more.

Every week the platform adds the latest matches and, for those seeking an extra special gift, there is also a range of limited edition prints signed by players, commentators and coaches.