![]() “Just because you’re commentating doesn’t mean you can’t absolutely enjoy the game and everything that goes with it. “It’s something I get great pleasure from,” he says, over the course of a long conversation in a north Co Dublin hotel. He will be in the commentary box at the Aviva Stadium for Ireland’s sell-out World Cup qualifier against Portugal on Thursday and seems as giddily excited about the prospect as he was when he first broadcast from the ground - then simply Lansdowne Road - 48 years ago. Yet, at 71, he says he never takes his good fortune for granted. He reckons he has covered thousands of games and has long lost count of the number of stadiums where he has worked. ![]() George Hamilton has been commentating at matches for the best part of half a century.
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