How ghosting Jimmy Hill made Martin Tyler the voice heard around the world

Sky’s chief commentator since the Premier League began, Martin Tyler still struggles to compute the breadth of the football boom since those afternoons when he travelled to matches checking roofs for satellite dishes, fretting if this thing would take off, wondering if he made the right call leaving ITV.

This interview was first published in 2016

Martin Tyler has just abandoned the policy of what seems like a lifetime. He’s done a dummy run of the catchphrase starved Premier League addicts hanker for.