[Other Sport] Best 'jobs' within Sport

Prince Monolulu

Everything in Moderation

Oct 2, 2013

10,201

The Race Hill

• Jul 16, 2015

• #1

The best two as I see it are Cricket Commentator.....worldwide travel, talk for 15 minutes then drink expensive red wine or alternatively tennis Guru....pump fists and grimace Cermmmm Orrrrn between points.

I'm in.

 

TSB

Captain Hindsight

Jul 7, 2003

17,666

Lansdowne Place, Hove

• Jul 16, 2015

• #2

This chap has it made.

 

atfc village

Well-known member

Mar 28, 2013

5,018

Lower Bourne .Farnham

• Jul 16, 2015

• #3

Friend of mine was a Producer on Talksport Breakfast show for a few years.Lots of Trips to major and not so major sporting events thrown in ,money wasn't the best though.

 

Boroseagull

Well-known member

Aug 23, 2003

2,060

Alhaurin de la Torre

• Jul 16, 2015

• #4

Being on the elite panel of ICC umpires would do me.

 

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Mellor 3 Ward 4

Well-known member

Jul 27, 2004

9,801

saaf of the water

• Jul 16, 2015

• #5

Boroseagull said:

Being on the elite panel of ICC umpires would do me.

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Sounds good to me.

The Caribbean, Sri Lanka, Australia, South Africa, UAE. All when the weather is at it's best.

Oh and Bangladesh and Pakistan (maybe!)

 

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knocky1

Well-known member

Jan 20, 2010

12,968

• Jul 16, 2015

• #6

The Crystal Palace coach driver's was effective or was it Charlie's?

 

Albion_Dave

Well-known member

Jul 4, 2011

2,108

Eastbourne

• Jul 16, 2015

• #7

Being a Fifa delegate has its perks

 

Stat Brother

Well-known member

NSC Patron

Jul 11, 2003

73,710

West west west Sussex

• Jul 16, 2015

• #8

There is nothing in cycling I'd recommend, beyond riding the bike.
Everything else seems like seriously hard work.

 

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Mellor 3 Ward 4

Well-known member

Jul 27, 2004

9,801

saaf of the water

• Jul 16, 2015

• #9

Stat Brother said:

There is nothing in cycling I'd recommend, beyond riding the bike.
Everything else seems like seriously hard work.

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Drug tester?

Actually that must be pretty hard work, constantly busy.

 

Stat Brother

Well-known member

NSC Patron

Jul 11, 2003

73,710

West west west Sussex

• Jul 16, 2015

• #10

Mellor 3 Ward 4 said:

Drug tester?

Actually that must be pretty hard work, constantly busy.

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Yeah I'd much rather be a tester in football, tennis, swimming, running etc.

 

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knocky1

Well-known member

Jan 20, 2010

12,968

• Jul 16, 2015

• #11

Sex tester women's Beach Volleyball? Tough luck if you get a failure.

 

We're the Stripes

Well-known member

Jul 31, 2005

3,591

BN2

• Jul 16, 2015

• #12

Don't know if anyone heard this week's Football Weekly release; Barry Glendenning interviewing Matt le Tissier. He makes the Soccer Saturday gig out to be the best job going. And to be fair I could think of worse things than being paid a lot of money to sit about watching football with a load of mates, occasionally mispronouncing a few players' names whilst Jeff Stelling does all the hard work holding the show together.

 

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Gwylan

Well-known member

Jul 5, 2003

31,339

Uffern

• Jul 16, 2015

• #13

I was offered a job at The Cricketer (having done an internship there). I turned it down as the pay was lousy but I thought what an ideal job it would be ... until I met a cricket reporter for one of the nationals who was moaning like hell about his forthcoming tour.

He said that when he started. he was a massive cricket fan and thought he'd had his ideal job but after a decade of it, he was beginning to hate cricket. Made me think I had a lucky escape

 

bn1&bn3 Albion

Well-known member

Jan 15, 2011

5,625

Portslade

• Jul 16, 2015

• #14

Football scout.. Travel around Europe, possibly the world watching football.. Could think of worse jobs.

 

Dorset Seagull

Once Dolphin, Now Seagull

Feb 21, 2009

4,428

Shaftesbury Dorset ( Hovis hill to you )

• Jul 16, 2015

• #15

bn1&bn3 Albion said:

Football scout.. Travel around Europe, possibly the world watching football.. Could think of worse jobs.

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You obviously haven't read "The Nowhere Men". And on that subject there are some cracking yarns in it from Barry Lloyd not least of which involved advice he gave to Russell Slade about Liam Dickinson. Nearly wet myself over that one

 

bn1&bn3 Albion

Well-known member

Jan 15, 2011

5,625

Portslade

• Jul 16, 2015

• #16

Dorset Seagull said:

You obviously haven't read "The Nowhere Men". And on that subject there are some cracking yarns in it from Barry Lloyd not least of which involved advice he gave to Russell Slade about Liam Dickinson. Nearly wet myself over that one

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No I haven't, presume it shows the less glamorous side to it then?

 

Bakero

Languidly clinical

Oct 9, 2010

13,786

Almería

• Jul 16, 2015

• #17

knocky1 said:

Sex tester women's Beach Volleyball? Tough luck if you get a failure.

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I clicked on this thread to see how long it would take for someone to mention beach volleyball.

 

Not Andy Naylor

Well-known member

Dec 12, 2007

8,798

Seven Dials

• Jul 16, 2015

• #18

We're the Stripes said:

Don't know if anyone heard this week's Football Weekly release; Barry Glendenning interviewing Matt le Tissier. He makes the Soccer Saturday gig out to be the best job going. And to be fair I could think of worse things than being paid a lot of money to sit about watching football with a load of mates, occasionally mispronouncing a few players' names whilst Jeff Stelling does all the hard work holding the show together.

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I did a feature on Soccer Saturday once, just after Jeff Stelling's book came out (somewhere behind the Times paywall, I'm afraid). The day involved turning up when Le Tiss and the rest did and basically laughing myself stupid for about five hours. It's even funnier during the commercial breaks when the drinks and eats come round. Once Merson assumed he had time to polish off a tuna ciabatta because nothing was happening in his game so the cameras wouldn't be on him then someone scored out of the blue from 35 yards and he had to spit half-eaten sandwich all over the desk so that he could speak when Stelling came to him. Phil Thompson (I think it was) nearly pissed himself.

But Jeff Stelling is an absolute pro. An awful lot of hard work goes into making it look so effortless.

 

Dorset Seagull

Once Dolphin, Now Seagull

Feb 21, 2009

4,428

Shaftesbury Dorset ( Hovis hill to you )

• Jul 16, 2015

• #19

bn1&bn3 Albion said:

No I haven't, presume it shows the less glamorous side to it then?

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Well worth a read but in a nutshell , long hours , very very late nights , crappy buffets and pay not much better than expenses only. Obviously at the highest levels I suspect things are a little rosier.

 

Normal Rob

Well-known member

Jul 8, 2003

5,659

Somerset

• Jul 16, 2015

• #20

A neighbour of my father in law, and now a friend of mine, was chief sports editor for the Press Association (who write reports and then sell them to the press around the globe) He was paid to attend every major sporting event, from the rugby world cup in 2003, to Ashes 2005, to boxing world title events etc, for many years. This is his book...http://www.amazon.co.uk/Living-Deadlifne-Off-Beat-Observations-Adventures/dp/1909626465