Peter Drury

Peter Drury (born December 1967) is a football commentator, formerly with ITV Sport as their number two football commentator, a role he had held from 1998 to 2013. Currently, Drury works for Premier League Productions, as well as for CBS Sports (USA) on its Champions League and Europa League coverage.

Peter Drury
BornDecember 1967 (age 53)
NationalityBritish
OccupationSports commentator

Early life

Drury was born in 1967 in Britain. He went to St John's School, Leatherhead in Surrey.[1] While growing up, Peter had a role model whom he regards to as his favourite commentator, his name was Peter Jones who worked for BBC Radio, he describes him as having a beautiful, authoritative and poetic voice.[2] Previously, he has worked as an accountant for a period of one month after graduating from university.

Commentary career

At the start of the 1990s, Peter got a job with BBC Radio Leeds at a time when Leeds were champions of the Football League First Division in the 1991–92 season. He later moved on to Broadcasting House in London at the start of 1997–98 season where he got an opportunity to cover matches of the day including the third match which was Everton vs Sheffield Wednesday on Saturday 4 October 1997 at Hillsborough Stadium.[3] Peter commentated on the 2014 FIFA World Cup final match between Germany and Argentina on 13 June 2014 at the Maracanã Stadium. In 2013, he joined BT Sport for their coverage of the Premier League, FA Cup, UEFA Champions League and UEFA Europa League..In 2015, Drury replaced Jon Champion as the primary commentator in the Pro Evolution Soccer video game series, starting with Pro Evolution Soccer 2016,[4] having also narrated Sony's This Is Football series earlier.[5] During the 2014 FIFA World Cup and the 2018 FIFA World Cup, he commentated on matches for FIFA's international feed and its YouTube channel,[6] including the final between France against Croatia..[7] Drury has covered most of the premier league matches alongside co-commentator Jim Beglin, whom he has worked with since 1995 including his early work with 5 live. Drury insists that viewers normally tune in to watch the match and not because of both of them.[2] In the 2018–19 champions league, he commentated on the second leg match of the knockout stages between Real Madrid and Ajax in the Bernabéu.[8]

He signed with SuperSport in 2019.[9]

Drury joined CBS Sports (USA) for its UEFA Champions League and UEFA Europa League coverage in August 2020, as the #2 play-by-play commentator behind Clive Tyldesley.

He is known for his poetic style of commentary, often using phrases such as "in a trice" instead of common language.[10]

Drury has been famed for his expressive and extremely literate style of commentary.

References
  1. https://playerswiki.com/peter-drury
  2. "Peter Drury Football Commentator". Tifo football. 21 March 2019.
  3. "Sheffield Wed vs Everton 1997/98". Premier league. 4 October 1997.
  4. "JimBeglinOffcial". twitter. 19 June 2018.
  5. Sam Drury (17 September 2012). "EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW: Peter Drury Talks Commentary". Liverpool Word. Archived from the original on 1 November 2014. Retrieved 14 January 2013.
  6. "Official FIFATV Youtube Channel". 6 September 2006.
  7. "France vs Croatia FifaTv". FIFATV. 15 July 2018.
  8. "Real madrid vs ajax". uefachampions league. 5 March 2019.
  9. "Peter Drury is the face of SuperSport's new football season". SUPERSPORT. 10 July 2019.
  10. "10 things you should know about poetic World Cup commentator Peter Drury". Nairobi News. 2 July 2018.
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