Old Belle Vue Tannoy Announcer

[Branton Rover]

Does anybody remember the name of the bloke who used to read the teams out before Ken Avis?

He obviously read the teams out 1-11 & it always amused my dad and I when he used to say "Rovers No 7 is Pugg (Daral Pugh). Dad and I always thought this was hilarious & whenever we'd refer to Daral Pugh we'd call him Pugg out of amusement of what we heard when I was a kid

[donnyallday]

A memory i have is when he shouted hand ball over the P.A during a game.

Another time was when we beat Hull  1 nil, just as the Hull fans were leaving the ground up pipes the P.A.   And todays late result Doncaster Rovers 1 Hull City 0.

The jeers coming from the Rosso End was funny to say the least.

[idler]

I wonder if it was J. Morris.?

[DRNaith]

My funny memories were of the various comedy pronunciations of Pierre Van Hooijdonk

[Sars]

Haha. I remember Ken half prenouncing his name "Pierre Van..."sigh" 

[Drover]

Remember the car reg announcements,"owner of car reg #######,can you move your car your blocking ######",But a couple of times it was  "owner of car reg #######,you've left your engine running!"

[Mike_F]

One of my favourite Ken Avis moments was when he had just made an announcement over the tannoy about foul and abusive language not being tolerated but left the mic on and although he was probably sitting in front of the PA box a couple of minutes later could quite clearly be heard saying something along the lines of "Oh come on, that's f**king offside, linesman".

[not on facebook]

Seem to recall the odd ' will bill smith please go to the hospital as your wife has gone into labour'

' car owner of blue rover 2000 reg number dn4 32rl plaese go back to your car because you have left your lights on

can bill smith please report to club office it's a emergency

Makes me wonder if bill smith ever saw the full 90mins of a game

[idler]

I remember in the 60s announcing that someone's wife had gone into labour and could they go home.
Twenty minutes or so later it was repeated. We were laughing and wondering if it was such a good game or was the game an alibi for the pub or another woman.

[RobTheRover]

Ken Avis, eh.  Legend

And I still have no idea what a "sterile area" is where people always left their cars.