Ray Stubbs
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Ray Stubbs (born Wallasey, Merseyside, 1956) is a broadcaster and former footballer. He currently works for BBC Sport presenting Grandstand on BBC One and Final Score as well as the coverage of snooker and darts. Occasionally he presents Match of the Day, standing in for Gary Lineker. He also occasionally presents 6-0-6 on Five Live. He presented Football Focus from 1999-2004. He was initially a professional footballer, leaving Calday Grange Grammar School [1] to join Tranmere Rovers where he played 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.
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.
Later that year, Ray began working as a reporter on Grandstand, Match of the Day and Sportsnight.[2]
He reported from the Irish camp during the 1994 World Cup in America, and was the BBC's reporter-in-residence in the England camp during Euro 96 and the 1998 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. Recently he helped present Match of the Day as part of the BBC's World Cup 2006 coverage.
During the broadcast of the Great North Run on BBC1 on 1st October 2006 Ray mentioned he was going to be celebrating his 50th birthday in the next week meaning he was born in 1956.
