Anthony Hudson

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Anthony Hudson (born 10 April 1971), is an Australian rules football commentator on both television and radio.

[edit] Early career

In 1991, he began his career with 3AW as a news journalist, and eventually progressed his way up to calling an AFL Grand Final in 1996. He began his television career in Perth, as a news boy, and eventually made his way to Melbourne, where he was soon a Football Commentator when Network Ten won the AFL rights in 2002. He has since become a popular idnetity there, and was host of football comedy series After The Game, which later became Before The Game, from 2002-2005, when he decided to leave the show to stop himself from overloading his workload, and allowing him to call Saturday Night Football. He was replaced by Andrew Maher. Hudson missed out on calling the Grand Final in 2006, despite calling it every other year that Ten had the rights for AFL. And he is a weeny man!

[edit] Famous... well, perhaps not, but here are some things he has said

"All aboard the Davey train," - Hudson often used this in Melbourne Football player Aaron Davey's first senior season in reference to goals scored by Davey using his pace and/or from acute angles. This quote was also repeated in a television commercial by Hudson for an AFL trading card game (AFL Teamcoach).

"I see it, but I don't believe it!" - most famously attributed to the semi-final between Geelong and Sydney in the 2005 AFL Finals Series, where Nick Davis scored the winning goal with 3 seconds remaining after Davis scored all four goals in the final term. Ironically, this performance by Davis was against Hudson's team (Geelong).