Roderick Forsyth is a Scottish football journalist, commentator, author and broadcaster. He has written extensively on Scottish football since the 1980s. Forsyth is also a former presenter of ''

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'', BBC Scotland's flagship TV football highlights programme. He was formerly football correspondent for BBC Scotland and is currently correspondent for the Telegraph group. Born in Glasgow, Forsyth has been one of the most familiar faces and voices on TV and radio for almost 40 years. He has authored books on Scotland's two most successful clubs,

Celtic F.C. The Celtic Football Club, commonly known as Celtic (), is a professional Association football, football club in Glasgow, Scotland. The team competes in the Scottish Premiership, the top division of Scottish football league system, Scottish ...

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, as well as ''The Only Game: Scots and World Football'' (1990).'The Only Game' (Mainstream, 1990)
Google Books, undated, accessed 10 January 2023 In June 2023, Forsyth, who has Parkinson's disease, announced that he was retiring after 40 years work for BBC Sport.'Roddy Forsyth: BBC broadcaster retires after 40 years'
BBC Sport, 20 June 2023, retrieved 21 June 2023

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