Patrick Murphy is a celebrated BBC journalist and the longest-serving regular contributor to Sports Report. He started in November, 1981, specialising in cricket and football, and is famed for his many jousts with difficult members of the football industry. Murphy has been involved in 44 sports books, including acclaimed biographies of Ian Botham and Brian Clough while co-writing books with, among others, Bob Willis, Graham Gooch, Viv Richards, Wasim Akram, Alan Donald, Imran Khan, Alec Stewart, Andrew Flintoff and Jack Russell. He has a 37k followers on Twitter.
The living history of a huge part of all our lives - and there's no one in the world better to tell it than Pat Murphy * Lee Child, bestselling Jack Reacher author and Aston Villa fan * Opens the doors to one of the great radio institutions and makes you realise how much effort and love goes into making it so special * Dan Walker * That opening tune always quickens the pulse. Out of the Blue, into the drama of the sporting day. Insight, interviews, inspirational * Henry Winter * It was the opening theme tune that sucked you in - it's synonymous with British sport and a staple diet of listening and watching sport on a Saturday afternoon. * Joe Root, England Cricketer and Sheffield United fan *