Alan Parry, Self: The Big Match. As well as his core commitment of 1 live match from every weekend of the Premier League, (plus several live matches for overseas viewers for TWI), Parry covered several live matches from the UEFA Champions League, the Football League Championship and the League Cup. In the 2002–03 season he presented Saturday afternoon football coverage on Capital Gold. Alan has 1 job listed on their profile. View Alan Parry’s profile on LinkedIn, the world's largest professional community. When not working for Sky Sports, Parry has been heard commentating Premier League matches for Premier League Productions, a venture of IMG Sports Media who produce, package and broadcast the live production of games for the Premier League for its international broadcast partners. Biography. See the complete profile on LinkedIn and discover Alan’s connections and … In 1985, he left the BBC to join ITV, initially as an athletics commentator after the commercial channel won the rights to cover British athletics. Alan has 4 jobs listed on their profile. Between 1992 and 1996, the ITV regions held the rights to live coverage of the Football League, and Parry commentated on a live match almost every Sunday for the Central region. For five years he was the Monday Night Football commentator, before working on the pay-per-view games on PremPlus for four years. Parry then became commentator of the revived Gladiators on Sky One replacing John Sachs.[2]. However, during this period he continued to regularly commentate on Liverpool matches on the TWI International feed for overseas Premiership viewers. His season's highlights were the League Cup Final which he commentated on for the seventh time and the two-legged Champions League semi-final between Manchester United and AC Milan. During the summer he commentated on the Copa América for Sky, including the final. Parry has also covered athletics for Sky, but his main role has been as a football commentator. The same productions are also shown domestically for highlights packages on Sky Sports' "Football First" programme. He has commentated for all four main broadcasters of football in the UK – the BBC, BT Sport, ITV and Sky TV, as well as for both BBC and commercial radio. The star of NBC's "Council of Dads" makes some unexpected picks for her own "Council of Moms," pulled from her favorite TV shows.Watch the video The 2006–07 season was another busy one for Parry. From 1981 he largely relinquished his radio football commentary to commentate for Match of the Day on BBC television. Parry is also the commentator for Wales' live international matches on Sky. By the mid-1970s he was also BBC radio's athletics commentator, covering the 1976, 1980 and 1984 Summer Olympics. Learn how and when to remove this template message, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Alan_Parry&oldid=978606652, English association football commentators, Short description is different from Wikidata, BLP articles lacking sources from February 2014, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License, This page was last edited on 15 September 2020, at 22:27.