{"id":420029,"date":"2023-02-23T04:59:41","date_gmt":"2023-02-23T09:59:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/ca\/?post_type=news&#038;p=420029"},"modified":"2023-02-23T04:59:41","modified_gmt":"2023-02-23T09:59:41","slug":"legendary-commentator-john-motson-dies-aged-77","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/legendary-commentator-john-motson-dies-aged-77\/","title":{"rendered":"Legendary commentator John Motson dies aged 77"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"qa-introduction gel-pica-bold\" role=\"introduction\" data-reactid=\".192uwnvml46.0.0.0.1.$paragraph-1\"><span data-reactid=\".192uwnvml46.0.0.0.1.$paragraph-1.0\">Legendary commentator John Motson &#8220;Motty&#8221; has died aged 77, the BBC announced on Thursday.<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">A true legend.<\/p>\n<p>Rest in peace, John. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/A5zgBn8A6R\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/A5zgBn8A6R<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; BBC Sport (@BBCSport) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BBCSport\/status\/1628693914579349505?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">February 23, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p role=\"introduction\" data-reactid=\".192uwnvml46.0.0.0.1.$paragraph-1\">Motson, who had an illustrious 50-year career, covered 10 World Cups, 10 European Championships and 29 FA Cup finals for BBC Sport before retiring in 2018.<\/p>\n<div data-reactid=\".192uwnvml46.0.0.0.1.$paragraph-2\">\n<div class=\"\" data-reactid=\".192uwnvml46.0.0.0.1.$paragraph-2.1\">\n<div id=\"bbccom_mpu_1_2_3\" class=\"bbccom_slot bbccom_standard_slot mpu_first_slot\" aria-hidden=\"true\" data-reactid=\".192uwnvml46.0.0.0.1.$paragraph-2.1.$body-0\">\n<div class=\"bbccom_advert\" data-reactid=\".192uwnvml46.0.0.0.1.$paragraph-2.1.$body-0.0\">He had worked on Match of the Day since 1971 and commentated on almost 2,500 televised games.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"\" data-reactid=\".192uwnvml46.0.0.0.1.$paragraph-4\"><span data-reactid=\".192uwnvml46.0.0.0.1.$paragraph-4.0\">In 2001, he became an OBE for services to sports broadcasting.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Legendary commentator John Motson &#8220;Motty&#8221; has died aged 77, the BBC announced on Thursday. A true legend. Rest in peace, John. pic.twitter.com\/A5zgBn8A6R &mdash; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4224,"featured_media":420167,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[],"news_category":[136],"gn_keywords":[],"acf":{"announce":"He covered 10 World Cups, 10 European Championships and 29 FA Cup finals for BBC Sport","video":[]},"rank_math_focus_keyword":"","rank_math_description":"","rank_math_title":"","rank_math_robots":"","rank_math_canonical_url":"","rank_math_facebook_title":"","rank_math_facebook_description":"","rank_math_facebook_image":"","rank_math_twitter_title":"","rank_math_twitter_description":"","rank_math_twitter_image":"","rank_math_snippet_shortcode":"","rank_math_primary_category":"","rankmath_seo":{"focus_keyword":"","description":"","title":"","canonical_url":"","robots":"","facebook":{"title":"","description":"","image":""},"twitter":{"title":"","description":"","image":""}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/420029"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4224"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=420029"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/420029\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/420167"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=420029"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=420029"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=420029"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=420029"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}