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Roger Elton Welsby (born 28 May 1951, St Helens, Lancashire) is an English television sports presenter. ==The ITV years== Welsby began his broadcasting career on Liverpool radio station ''Radio City'' as a sports reporter and commentator.〔Barham, Kathy (2006) ''194 Radio City - The Heart of Liverpool'', Lulu.com, ISBN 978-1-4116-8814-8, p. 99〕 In January 1978 he joined Granada Television, working on its football programme ''The Kick Off Match'' and presented its 1980s successor ''Match Night'' until its demise in 1983. When Granada revived ''Kick Off'' in 1989, Welsby returned as presenter. He was one of the anchors of the 1988 Seoul Olympics, the last Olympic Games to be covered by the network, and also presented the Saturday afternoon ''Results Service'' from the late 1980s onwards. At the start of the 1988-89 season, ITV began broadcasting exclusive live coverage of the Football League. It was the task of future BBC Director-General Greg Dyke to oversee the coverage and he entrusted Welsby as presenter of ''The Match'', anchoring numerous dramatic matches over the next four years-most notably Arsenal's 2-0 win against Liverpool in the last game of the season which saw the Gunners snatch a last minute winner at Anfield. The loss of top flight football to Sky Sports in 1992 hit ITV Sport hard, and Welsby's final work as ITV's lead Football presenter was at the 1992 European Championships. He was absent from the network's coverage of the 1994 FIFA World Cup, which saw newcomer Matthew Lorenzo do much of the presenting, and the imminent arrival of Bob Wilson pushed Welsby further down the football presenting pecking order on ITV. Despite these apparent setbacks, Welsby managed to consistently out perform fellow anchor Jim Rosenthal in 'best of' polls conducted in the Manchester area. Welsby continued to present regional sports programming for Granada Television until May 2000 when the station decided not to renew his contract. No explanation was given for the decision. Welsby has occasionally returned as a guest on the ''Granada Soccer Night'' programme, and in 2001 he returned to radio to present ''Elton Welsby's Soccer Saturday'' for North-West regional station Century FM - a role he held for three years. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Elton Welsby」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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