Robert Colston (27 June 1928 – 24 March 2013) was a broadcaster who was famous in the

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as the voice of the football results on ITV's various Saturday afternoon football results programmes for 27 years between 1972 and 1999. Colston joined '' World of Sport'' in 1972 and read out the football results until the programme was cancelled in 1985. He continued to read the results as ITV broadcast the football scores in a stand-alone programme called ''Results Service'' which ran until 1992. The results were then featured during the Saturday teatime

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bulletin which Colston did until 1999. He made brief appearances on

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reading out the football results on ''

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'' during the 2000–01 season. Whilst reading the results, Colston inflected his voice to imply the result of a match simply through his sonorous intonation of the home team's score. Unlike Len Martin, who surpassed his

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on the BBC's rival programme ''

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'' from its inception in 1958 until his death in 1995, Colston would use abbreviations for some teams such as " Spurs" which would allow him to read the results more quickly than Martin.

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1928 births 2013 deaths British sports broadcasters {{UK-tv-bio-stub