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About Ian Darke
Ian Darke (born 1950) is a British sports commentator for televised football matches on ESPN. He was formerly a boxing commentator for Sky. Darke was previously one of Sky's "Big Four" football commentators alongside Martin Tyler, Alan Parry and Rob Hawthorne. He was also the main commentator for Sky's big boxing fights and along with Jim Watt, covered some of the biggest fights involving British boxers.
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“But they can't be.”
“Payback, for the USA!”
“As quiet as a library.”
“I think he's saying there should be more than a minute.”
“I'm just kind of glad people seem to like the way I do it.”
“It is over! The USA have made it, in a Hollywood-style finish!”
“But you have concerns about that back line, don't you, Taylor?”
“I don't know what everybody back home is like watching this, but I'm very tense. I'll tell you that.”
“It just takes one moment to make the difference here for the USA of staying in this competition or leaving it.”
“Now don't ask me why I said that; it just came out. Somewhere in the recesses of my mind; quite beyond logic. But, there it is.”
“USA valiant effort, but no hard luck story. Better team won. Last 16 is about as good as U.S. are, but well respected team now.”
“If that was Tim Howard's last World Cup game, what a way to go out! He was phenomenal. Most saves by a W.C. keeper in 50 years.”
“I've been lucky since I've had this job, getting two amazingly dramatic moments like that. You sort of had a license to go to nine or ten on the Richter scale.”
“I think in all the bedlam, it got forgotten. We were on the move all the time traveling around South Africa. People were saying, 'Your call of that goal has created quite a stir in America.' Yeah?”
“It's a crushing right hand and that must finish it! It must finish it! Tyson cannot get up from that, surely. He will be counted out. Lennox Lewis seals his place in history forever and closes the book on Mike Tyson!”
“Here's Sanneh. The Americans, here. What a start for them, and this is number three! Brian McBride!”
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Ian Darke on 2014 FIFA World Cup 29 quotes
“Payback, for the USA!”
Ian Darke on Brazil v Germany (2014 FIFA World Cup) 11 quotes
“As quiet as a library.”
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Ian Darke on 2010 FIFA World Cup 11 quotes
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“An utter humiliation for Brazil, just got worse! ... A devastated Brazil; a devastated nation.”
Ian Darke on 2002 FIFA World Cup
“The experienced Stewart with the corner here for the United States. Here's Brian McBride, it's not away on O'Brien! Gives the United States the lead inside four minutes... Portugal all the over the place here, and they've made another mistake. Here's Donovan, with a cross. Deflected, and in! Two, nil! Can you believe this? Landon Donovan's cross, deflected off Costa. Two, nothing... Here's Sanneh. The Americans, here. What a start for them, and this is number three! Brian McBride!”
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Ian Darke on 2011 FIFA Women's World Cup 7 quotes
“I think one word we can agree Bob is, uh? Epic, classic. Thriller, block-buster. I think all the clichés were made real. I mean? You woke up this morning, saying you felt nervous about this game. Now, I know why.”
Ian Darke on Hope Solo 3 quotes
“Daiane, whose own goal started all the talking points today after seventy-four seconds. Seems a long, long time ago now. It was into this goal, now Brazil need her to put one in legitimately for them. Yes! Brilliant save from Solo, brilliant save! And that one is legal, and now that means, that if the United States put in the last two penalties, they will go into the semi-finals. That is a moment of magic from Hope Solo!”
Ian Darke on Jürgen Klinsmann
“I think he's saying there should be more than a minute.”
Ian Darke on Ray Charles
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Roger Bennett on Ian Darke
“It is with great pleasure, and I know I say that every week and don't mean it. But, this week I really, really, really mean it. It is with great pleasure, that we welcome back to the pod, the man who many of us know as the voice of football, I think of as. If a soccer ball could actually talk? It would sound just like this man. Welcome back to Men in Blazers, Sir Ian Darke.”
About Ian Darke
Ian Darke (born 1950) is a British sports commentator for televised football matches on ESPN. He was formerly a boxing commentator for Sky. Darke was previously one of Sky's "Big Four" football commentators alongside Martin Tyler, Alan Parry and Rob Hawthorne. He was also the main commentator for Sky's big boxing fights and along with Jim Watt, covered some of the biggest fights involving British boxers.