![]() ![]() And to go from that to suddenly becoming the story and to have the camera lenses trained on me instead of on the pitch was something I found really difficult to deal with and something I wasn’t really ready for and something I didn’t enjoy for a second.” That’s what I wanted to do, and that’s what I worked hard at. All my focus through my training of being a journalist, through the match reports, through the commentaries, had always been on telling a story to the audience. “Unfortunately it became a bit of a news story because there was one difference between the others and me,” she recalled. On April 21, 2007, she became the first woman to broadcast BBC One television’s “Match of the Day,” between Fulham and Blackburn. She started freelancing, giving match reports on non-league matches and in 2003 broadcast her first game for BBC Radio Leeds, between Wakefield & Emley and Worksop Town in the seventh tier Northern Premier League.Ĭharles Runcie hired her for BBC Radio 5 Live, first for women’s matches and then the 2005 Women’s European Championship. “I’m a mature student in a hurry,” she told him. Oatley wrote to local BBC radio stations and when visiting Leeds made contact with the radio sports editor, Derm Tanner She gave up her day job and her apartment and stayed with friends while learning her new trade and in September 2002 enrolled in a postgraduate journalism program at Sheffield Hallam University. She searched the Internet for how to get into broadcasting, took a one night-a-week job doing sports report for hospital radio and enrolled in evening courses in radio production and print journalism. She was on crutches for 10 months.Īround Christmas in 2001, she decided her job as an accounts manager for an intellectual property company was unfulfilling. She attended the University of Leeds and was a midfielder for Chiswick’s women’s team when she dislocated her left knee and ruptured ligaments when trying to keep a ball in play. Oatley grew up in Wolverhampton listening to Barry Davies, Brian Moore and John Motson. Some play-by-play people are so good and so focused on the technical aspect of what they’re calling that they don’t pay enough attention to what’s going on in the building.” You don’t have to convince anybody of her qualifications,” said David Neal, executive producer of Fox’s World Cup coverage. Jackie has operated the highest level in the Premier League in England. “We want the best person available regardless of their gender, regardless of their nationality. This time, three of five are British, with Rae joined by Oatley and Ian Darke. The most important thing is how good they are.”įive of ESPN’s six play-by-play announcers in 2014 were British but Fox used just one among six in 2018, Derek Rae. It’s very important to have the connection with the audience, and they bring their own connection. “They only get the work because they’re very good. “They bring knowledge and expertise,” said 77-year-old Martin Tyler, about to broadcast his 12th World Cup. She and Meulensteen have become regulars on the Premier League’s world feed, heard in the U.S. Oatley, 47, worked the 2018 World Cup for Britain’s ITV as a studio presenter and sideline reporter. ![]() It won’t be seen as like, ‘oh, wow, there’s a woman that’s doing commentary.’ This should be a normal thing to have females talking about football, just as much as men.” “And I’m hoping in time, as well, that we’ll just be accepted. My two brothers play football, and we all talk about the same thing, so why not have a female talking about it?” Pien Meulensteen said. I grew up in a footballing house, My dad works in football. They’re not open to hearing anything different,” said Meulensteen, the 25-year-old daughter of former Fulham manager and current Australia assistant coach René Meulensteen. “Loads of people will have negative comments about women and women commentators and that’s because that’s just the way that they think. Pien Meulensteen, Vicki Sparks and Robyn Cowen are among the broadcasters for matches on BBC in Britain. World Cup telecasts, heading one of Fox’s five broadcast teams for the tournament in Qatar that opens Sunday. Jacqui Oatley will become the first woman play-by-play commentator for U.S. ![]()
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