We Welcome Your Teams - A Podcast About Stadium Announcers Rich Hurst

Our guest this episode is the announcer at a club that recently secured their status in League Two for another season, after a nailbiting final day that saw rivals Sutton drop out of the football league. - Colchester United's Peter Sleigh

He's been in the job since the late 90's and has worked at both Layer Road and The Colchester United Community Stadium as the announcer.

Rich Hurst of West Brom and Dom Walker of Burnley are your hosts this week and they'll be finding out amongst other things - how a baby monitor should be in every stadium announcer's kit list!

There are two more tunes courtesy of the team @shootmusic to get your ears round too!

Gareth Hillier has been announcer at Newport County FC for just 6 months but he's already achieved national fame for the sponsor of added time at Rodney Parade.

Hosts Rich Hurst (West Brom) and Alan Keegan (Man Utd) talk to Gareth about how he's finding having the big job of stadium announcer plus share some of the wisdom they've picked up in their combined 34 years on the mic.

Gareth is full of enthusiasm and loves his job and there are some great observations about doing the job we all love.

There's also music from ShootMusic who send stadium DJ's around the world new releases for inclusion on their matchday playlists!

In this episode Rich Hurst of West Brom is joined by guest co-host Rich Reynolds from Brighton to chat with Stevenage FC announcer Jay 'Drackers' Drackford.

Jay has been doing it at the Lamex for 10 years and loves his job. The energy he puts in and the fun he is has is quite envious for announcers a bit further up the pyramid.

As always there's questions about music, guest interviews and having a pop at away fans. Plus a couple of cheeky tunes from the team at ShootMusic.

A very special guest joins us for this episode, voice of the last men's World Cup final in Qatar, Steven Peios.

As FIFA's Matchday Announcer, he's covered all the major tournaments including the World Cups, Asia Cups, Club World Cups and more...and when he's not there, he's at Western Sydney Wanderers.

Hosts Rich Hurst from West Brom and Alan Keegan from Man Utd chat through a whole host of amazing experiences he's had including encounters with the world's biggest names in football.

Plus there's snippets of new songs from Jonny Marr and Fat White Band thanks to the team at Shoot Music.

Happy New Year!

Our first podcast of 2024 sees hosts Rich Hurst of West Brom and Alan Keegan of Manchester United speak to Morecambe announcer of 30 plus years - Mark Swindlehurst.

Mark's announced for them in different leagues, at varying levels of success from inside a little red hut with a cassette player to a slightly more up to date kit at the new Mazuma stadium.

Plus there are new tunes to  get your ears round as delivered by the guys at Shoot Music 

What's it like to be the stadium announcer for Scotland at Hampden Park?

Graeme Easton is the man with the job and he's also recently started doing it for Hearts too!

That meant there was loads for Rich Hurst of West Brom and Alan Keegan of Man Utd to chat to him about around great games he's worked for and great music that's created special atmospheres.

Once again there's new music supplied by the guys at Shoot Music.