Fancy yourself as the next Clive Tyldesley, Martin Tyler or John Motson? Weill listen up... The England Football Team facebook page is giving you the opportunity to prove it via a new and unique competition. Fans are invited to put their own commentary to Alan Shearer's goal against Portugal at Wembley from 1998 with the [.

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- Two Year Flashback: The Mirror remembers the QPR Programme of the late 1960s
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We're kicking off another new series on Twohundredpercent this evening, on the subject of the commentators that have brought the game to life. This evening, as an opener, here's a look at a many that celebrates the fortieth anniversary of his television debut this weekend, and a man who went on to become a voice of football in a way that perhaps no-one else in Britain did: John Motson.

By Alan Duffy

The ultimate football anorak (or sheepskin coat), iconic commentator John Motson has now been with the Beeb for 40 years, quite an achievement.

In a world before Sky Sports, self-important celebrity pundits, the overuse of ironic puns and Clive Tyldesley, Motson was football television's Mr Big, the A-list commentator who shared football's iconic moments with the nation.

Celebrating 40 years of John Motson: Top 10 Motty moments video special

John Motson is celebrating 40 years at the BBC. The veteran broadcaster has been the voice of all the big football moments since he shot to fame in the early 1970s thanks to Ronnie Radford's winner for Hereford against Newcastle.

EXCLUSIVE John Motson interview: Four decades, 1700 matches... and countless sheepskin coats!

Dear old Motty's notes went flying, a table on the gantry overturned and microphone leads were ripped from their sockets. Somehow, amid the bedlam, John Motson managed to convey the drama of David Beckham's ­stoppage-time free kick against Greece, which sent England to the 2002 World Cup finals, into the nation's living rooms.

The next in our "Those We Have Lost" series is a little different to the rest. Wimbledon supporter Tom Lines missed the club's days at Plough Lane, but by the time that he was old enough he was venturing across south London to see his team play at Selhurst Park. If you would like to contribute to this series which will be collected together as a page on the site for posterity please drop us a line using the contact page in the links at the top.

Earlier this week we looked back to the memorable 1994/5 season and the game that defined Rocket Ronny Rosenthal's career. Going back a little further, 1977/78 saw Tottenham down to the old second division, but for those who were lucky enough to witness the games, it was a memorable campaign.

It often seems as if football commentators are more divisive that than they perhaps they should be. We, as supporters, allow our hackles to rise whenever they open their mouths, yet what they do is extraordinarily difficult. Perhaps the point is that they make it look easy, leading us to believe that it is easy.

Juliet Jacques writes a blog for the Guardian, was the driving force behind In Bed With Maradona's appeal for a punditry revolution and can be followed on Twitter @JulietJacques ... This is Juliet's favourite goal:

I should open by saying that, as a Norwich fan, this is shamefully obvious, but my favourite goal remains Jeremy Goss's volley that put City 1-0 up at Bayern Munich's Olympiastadion on 20 October 1993.

There are times when it dawns on you just how dirt cheap the BBC licence is. It dawned on me most recently when I tried to calculate how much of a refund I would be due for 26 minutes, the length of the Radio 5 Live ‘Monday Night Club' debate on Uefa's ‘Financial Fair Play' (FFP) regulations. To be fair to the BBC, any proper debate on Uefa's complex but largely common sense regulations would need a full hour at least.

Seen this elsewhere today?

Referees. Eh? Who'd be one? Not me anyway. I watch football, play football, love football but would never want to put myself in the position that thousands of well wishing men & women do. They are vital to the function of the sport and a good referee can make a game better.