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Nick Metcalfe
@Nick_Metcalfe
Journalist and broadcaster. Lover of radio, trains, singing and snooker. Member of Travelers' Century Club. open.spotify.com/show/59AWrIPMH…
Shoreditch, England
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Joined March 2010
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    Nick Metcalfe
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    Aug 10, 2024
    Beautiful to be at the Olympic Stadium in Paris. Forty years on from watching the Los Angeles Games at home in childlike wonder. Twenty years on from being in Athens to watch Kelly Holmes in that golden summer. I’m now much older, only a bit wiser and still besotted with sport.
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    Nick Metcalfe
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    Jul 4, 2018
    All this Gareth Southgate love - well deserved for a great bloke - only says to me how much we’re crying out for basic decency in our leading public figures. We’re tired of braggarts and buffoons and Gareth is helping to fill the void.
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    Nick Metcalfe
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    Jul 5, 2024
    Wow, here’s Neil Kinnock on George Galloway after hearing Galloway lost his Rochdale seat to Labour. #GeneralElection2024
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    Nick Metcalfe
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    Sep 28, 2022
    Good heavens above, what a shot from Mark Allen. #snooker
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    Nick Metcalfe
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    Jun 16, 2024
    Ludicrous scenes. Bryson DeChambeau is running at a hundred miles an hour around Pinehurst, giving every fan present a chance to touch the US Open trophy. This is why major championship golf is one of the few things I love as much now as when I was a boy. Pure folklore.
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    Nick Metcalfe
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    May 17, 2024
    ‘I bet you went mad tonight.’ ‘Nah, I was pretty low key really. One more big game to play. It’s important not to peak too early.’
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    Nick Metcalfe
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    Aug 14, 2020
    If you consider the high stakes, the context, the pressure, this must be one of the greatest shots in the history of snooker from Ronnie O’Sullivan. The groan of appreciation from Stephen Hendry accompanies it perfectly. #snooker #bbcsnooker
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    Nick Metcalfe
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    Nov 26, 2022
    Probably my favourite piece of World Cup punditry so far. #FIFAWorldCup
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    Nick Metcalfe
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    Dec 29, 2023
    Prime Minister Rishi Sunak was at Southampton this evening to see his team beat Plymouth 2-1. Southampton manager Russell Martin was asked if the PM had come to the dressing room to see the team: 'He might have come down, but I have absolutely no interest in saying hello.'
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    Nick Metcalfe
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    Apr 17, 2023
    What an extraordinary picture this is from Getty Images, one of the most dramatic to ever emerge from the World Championship at the Crucible. #Snooker
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    Nick Metcalfe
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    Jun 22, 2025
    Understated goodbye from one of the great broadcasters. Some emotion too from Steve Rider at the end, and well there might be. Half a century on the screen, guiding the nation through so many sporting moments that we’ll never forget. Pictures from ITV
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    Nick Metcalfe
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    Apr 25, 2022
    John Higgins the victor but what a beautiful way to bow out of the arena from Noppon Saengkham. #snooker
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    Nick Metcalfe
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    Nov 9, 2025
    Put it this way, there’s quite a marked difference between the first four and the second four. Although it could be argued that the fourth of eight was responsible for the most damaging moment in UK politics for generations.
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    Nick Metcalfe
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    Nov 9, 2025
    Jeez, the row of recent Prime Ministers at the Cenotaph doesn't half bring home what a shambles UK politics has been in the last 10-15 years. Major, Blair and Brown look like political titans compared to some of the characters who have occupied the highest office since.
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    Nick Metcalfe
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    May 3, 2022
    Judd Trump conducted himself impeccably last night. He spoke brilliantly on TV, engaged with everyone including many fans well into the early hours and was overall just pure decency despite having lost a world final. A credit to the sport. #snooker