Ray Stubbs

Ray has carved a successful career in sports broadcasting after playing professional football with Tranmere Rovers FC. He now works for ESPN presenting Premier League and Scottish Premier League matches. Ray is an entertaining and highly amusing after dinner speaker recounting his tales from the sporting world. Ray is a great fit for most events not just sporting dinners.

In the beginning

Ray joined Tranmere from school and was on the club’s books for five years before switching to an administrative role with the club. He 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 a number of sports including snooker, darts and bowls, as well as A Question of Sport. He also worked as a Producer, reporter and presenter on BBC Two’s investigative series On the Line, a series which saw him go to Italy in 1990 to report on England football fans at the World Cup Finals.

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 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. He also co-hosted coverage of the 1998 Winter Olympics and co- presented coverage of the 1998 Commonwealth Games.