Ray Stubbs
| Personal information | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Full name | Raymond J Stubbs | ||
| Date of birth | 1956 (age 60–61) | ||
| Place of birth | Wallasey, Cheshire, England | ||
| Senior career* | |||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
| 1973–1978 | Tranmere Rovers | 0 | (0) |
| 1978–1980 | Bangor City | ? | (?) |
| * Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only. |
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Raymond J. "Ray" Stubbs (born Wallasey, Wirral, 1956) is a broadcaster and former footballer. He is chief football reporter for BT Sport having previously worked for the BBC and ESPN. He also presents BT Sport's coverage of BDO darts.
He was initially a professional footballer, leaving Calday Grange Grammar School to join Tranmere Rovers for five years. He also played for Bangor City between 1978 and 1980. After ending his playing career with Tranmere, he stayed with the club in an administrative capacity.
As Commercial Director of the club, he agreed a deal with club's first ever shirt sponsor; Storeton Motor Company. The deal was announced in October 1979. Two years he agreed a new shirt sponsorship with Cathedral Tours – a Liverpool-based excursion company.
He later spent three years with BBC Radio Merseyside as a reporter and presenter.
In 1986, Stubbs moved to BBC Manchester as an assistant producer, working on sports including snooker, darts and bowls, and on the quiz show A Question of Sport. He also worked as a producer, reporter and presenter on BBC Two's investigative sports series On The Line, which took him to Italy in 1990 to report on England football fans at the World Cup.
Later that year, Stubbs began working as a reporter on Grandstand, Match of the Day and Sportsnight. He reported from the Irish camp during the 1994 FIFA World Cup in America, and was the BBC's reporter-in-residence in the England camp during Euro 96 and the 1998 FIFA World Cup in France. Stubbs was a co-presenter at all the subsequent major international tournaments between 2000 and 2008 as well as the 1998 Winter Olympics and the 1998 Commonwealth Games.
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