Mark Charles Adam Pougatch (born 27 January 1968) is an English radio and television broadcaster, journalist, and author who is currently a sideline reporter for

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's European football and the Chief Sports Presenter for

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, fronting their major football and rugby coverage. Pougatch was the presenter of '' BT Sport Score''.

Early life

Born in

Paddington Paddington is an area in the City of Westminster, in central London, England. A medieval parish then a metropolitan borough of the County of London, it was integrated with Westminster and Greater London in 1965. Paddington station, designed b ...

, west London, Pougatch attended

Malvern College Malvern College is a Private schools in the United Kingdom, fee-charging coeducational boarding school, boarding and day school in Malvern, Worcestershire, Malvern, Worcestershire, England. It is a public school (United Kingdom), public school ...

, where he was captain of the First XI cricket team and graduated with a degree in politics at the

University of Durham Durham University (legally the University of Durham) is a collegiate public research university in Durham, England, founded by an Act of Parliament in 1832 and incorporated by royal charter in 1837. It was the first recognised university to ...

where he was a member of

Hatfield College Hatfield College is one of the constituent colleges of Durham University in England. It occupies a city centre site above the River Wear on the World Heritage Site peninsula, lying adjacent to North Bailey and only a short distance from Durha ...

. He then undertook a postgraduate diploma in Broadcast Journalism at the

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Broadcasting career

Pougatch initially worked for six months at the former BBC radio station for London,

BBC GLR BBC Radio London is the BBC Local Radio, BBC's local radio station serving Greater London. It broadcasts on FM broadcasting, FM, Digital Audio Broadcasting, DAB, digital TV and via BBC Sounds from studios at Broadcasting House in Langham Plac ...

. He then became a regular football reporter in 1992 with

BBC Essex BBC Essex is the BBC's local radio station serving the county of Essex. It broadcasts on FM, DAB, digital TV and via BBC Sounds from studios on New London Road in Chelmsford. According to RAJAR, the station has a weekly audience of 136,000 ...

. In 1994, he joined

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, selected to be the main presenter of '' 5 Live Sport'' on Sundays. In August 2000, he switched to the flagship Saturday edition of the show and continued to present this until August 2016 when he was replaced by Mark Chapman. Pougatch has presented coverage of the IPL cricket and the

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for ITV. In January 2015, Pougatch replaced

Adrian Chiles Adrian Chiles (born 21 March 1967) is a British writer and television and radio presenter. He has co-presented both '' The One Show'' (2007–2010) and '' Daybreak'' (2010–2011) with Christine Lampard. He was also the chief presenter for fo ...

as the main football presenter on ITV, fronting the channel's coverage of the

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, England Internationals and later

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. In February and March 2016, Pougatch co-presented ITV's coverage of the Six Nations Rugby Championship and continued in this role in 2017, 2018 and 2019, subsequently co-hosting ITV's coverage of the

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alongside (amongst others)

Craig Doyle Craig Doyle (born 17 December 1970) is an Irish television and radio presenter. To British viewers he is recognisable as working for the BBC and ITV and more recently TNT Sports; Irish viewers also know him as the host of RTÉ One chat show ...

. In March 2012, he won the

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award for Sports Broadcaster of the Year. He started presenting the Saturday afternoon show '' BT Sport Score'' on

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in 2016 but had left by the start of the 20-21 season. Pougatch is part of

's coverage of

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Champions League,

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, Conference League and

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, reporting live from the stadium.

Other activities

Pougatch joined the team of '' Football Superstars'', a game which was due to be released in 2009 as an innovative

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game integrating gameplay with footballers' lifestyles. He is the author of ''Three Lions Versus the World: England's World Cup Stories from the Men Who Were There''. He is also a speaker, after dinner and at daytime events.

Personal life

Pougatch is married to Lady Victoria Scott, the younger daughter of the 5th

Earl of Eldon Earl of Eldon, in the County Palatine of Durham, is a title in the Peerage of the United Kingdom. It was created in 1821 for the lawyer and politician John Scott, 1st Baron Eldon, Lord Chancellor from 1801 to 1806 and again from 1807 to 1827 ...

. They live in

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with their three children. His grandfather was among the

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who escaped

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amid the violence that followed the first Russian Revolution."BBC Radio 5 Live presenter Mark Pougatch is a sucker for a grumpy TV character and has been known to read Red."
By John Dugdale. ''The Guardian''. 30 November 2009.

References

External links

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The Official Football Superstars Website

Mark Pougatch
on Twitter
''5 Live Sport''
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