Ray Stubbs

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Ray Stubbs
Full name	Raymond Stubbs
Date of birth	1956
Place of birth	Wallasey, Wirral, England
Club information
Current club	Retired
Senior clubs¹
Years	Club	App (Gls)*
1978-80 1980-85	Bangor City Tranmere Rovers
¹ Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only and correct as of 20:56, 16 April 2008 (UTC). * Appearances (Goals)

Raymond Stubbs (born Wallasey, Wirral, 1956) is a broadcaster and former footballer. He currently works for BBC Sport, presenting Final Score, as well as the coverage of snooker and darts. He occasionally presents Match of the Day, Match of the Day 2, and 6-0-6 on Five Live.

Ray also presented Football Focus from 1999 until 2004 (before being replaced by Manish Bhasin, who is still presenting the programme), as well as other BBC sports programmes, such as Grandstand and Sportsnight.

He was initially a professional footballer, leaving Calday Grange Grammar School to join Bangor City where he played from 1978-80. He then played for Tranmere Rovers for five years. After ending his playing career, he stayed with the club in an administrative capacity and then spent three years with BBC Radio Merseyside as a reporter and presenter. ^[1]

In 1986, Ray moved to BBC Manchester as an assistant producer, working on sports including snooker, darts and bowls, and on the quiz show A Question of Sport. He also worked as a producer, reporter and presenter on BBC Two's investigative sports series On The Line, which took him to Italy in 1990 to report on England football fans at the World Cup. ^[1]

Later that year, Ray began working as a reporter on Grandstand, Match of the Day and Sportsnight. He reported from the Irish camp during the 1994 FIFA World Cup in America, and was the BBC's reporter-in-residence in the England camp during Euro 96 and the 1998 FIFA World Cup in France. Ray co-hosted coverage of the 1998 Winter Olympics, co-presented coverage of the 1998 Commonwealth Games, and has also reported for BBC One's On Side. ^[1] He helped present Match of the Day as part of the BBC's 2006 World Cup coverage.

Ray has been a big supporter of Sport Relief and has become the project's action hero. In 2002, he was dropped 100 feet into a pile of boxes; in 2004, he was suspended from a crane, and swung into a giant ball of dung; and, in 2006, was tied to a post and bombarded by 15,000 bouncy balls.

In 2007, Ray took part in Comic Relief does Fame Academy, and made it to the last five, before being struck down by an upper respiratory tract infection. Despite his illness, he still performed twice on the night, before being voted out by three of his fellow students so he could go home and recover. Ray also takes part in the Great North Run each year for charity, and is an honoury member of Gateshead Harriers.