Gerald McNee is a Scottish football journalist, who made his name in the Scottish football press with the Scottish Daily Express and Daily Star in the 1970s.
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From 1990-1998 McNee was the regular commentator on STV's Scotsport. Infamously during a game between Celtic and Rangers in 1995 at Ibrox, shown live to millions throughout Scotland he continued to commentate that the score was 1-1 for almost 6 minutes before realising that the Rangers goal had been chopped off for offside. This led many Scottish football supporters to give McNee the tongue in cheek moniker 'The Voice of Football.'
McNee also appeared as a pundit on Scotsport and on Setanta Sports' Press Box.
Alongside commentating he was also a frequent panelist on Radio Clyde's football phone-in Super Scoreboard.
McNee has also written several books including a biography of the Celtic footballer and manager of the club Jimmy McGrory as well as an appraisal of the John Wayne movie The Quiet Man.
He also wrote a weekly newspaper column in the Scottish edition of the News of the World.
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| Preceded by Jock Brown |
Regular football commentator of Scotsport 1990–1998 |
Succeeded by Archie MacPherson |