Tyldesley

Joyce Tyldesley, in her new book, Myths and Legends of Ancient Egypt, provides as panoramic a survey as one could hope to read – and yet the gods themselves, despite all her best efforts, remain frustratingly opaque.

The Rise and Fall of Ancient Egypt by Toby Wilkinson; Myths and Legends of Ancient Egypt by Joyce Tyldesley; and Egyptian Dawn by Robert Temple Tom Holland 2010

"Glad I wasn't commentating when Drogba copped a nasty one," tweeted Tyldesley.

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It was, I am afraid, something of a cliche-ridden week for Tyldesley, who on Wednesday, gawd help us, had Spurs "earning the right to dine at the top table of European football".

Feeling the tug and pull of nonstop talk | Martin Kelner 2011

The Egyptians, as Tyldesley points out, did not like "to commit anything bad to writing, lest that bad thing should bring its own bad luck".

The Rise and Fall of Ancient Egypt by Toby Wilkinson; Myths and Legends of Ancient Egypt by Joyce Tyldesley; and Egyptian Dawn by Robert Temple Tom Holland 2010

We all have our own betes noires, mine being Clive Tyldesley, who is a fine commentator in many ways, meticulously prepared, rarely faltering in player identification, spotting player movements and so on, but spoils it with his compulsion to fill every available second with the voice of Clive Tyldesley.

Feeling the tug and pull of nonstop talk | Martin Kelner 2011

In the Spurs-City match, for instance, Moore missed a scuffle in back play that any of the new guys would have picked up on, and if you gave me a choice between Wolstenholme and Tyldesley I should go for Clive every time.

Feeling the tug and pull of nonstop talk | Martin Kelner 2011

And it was, understandably, an uneven production, coddled in Sky Sports-style doom-laden graphics, given weight by the restrained but nicely persistent questioning of Gabriel Clarke in the stadium, and siphoned rather jarringly through the expert but gurglingly partisan commentary of Clive Tyldesley "Ji-sung Park SWEEPS in the equaliser!"

Adrian Chiles's chumminess strikes right tone as ITV treads carefully | Barney Ronay 2012

Yet when the dust settled after what I never expect to hear Clive Tyldesley call "that wonderful night in suburban north London" the dressingroomistas were in full retreat.

Dressingroomistas v Structuralists: football's perennial problem 2011

That's the last time I roll my eyes at Tyldesley, Drury, Beglin et al. mnLet us all in the UK be thankful for what we have.

Barcelona v Real Madrid – as it happened | Rob Bagchi 2012

In sport, David Pleat recorded a first-class, "When you've got a mountain to climb you may as well throw everything into the kitchen sink straight away" and Clive Tyldesley gave us "Gilberto Silva: does exactly what it says on the tin."

Live television is 'a high-wire act with no safety net' 2011