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 Final Score as well as the coverage of snooker and darts. He occasionally presents Match of the Day, Match of the Day 2 and 6-0-6 on Five Live.
Ray also presented Football Focus between from 1999 until 2004 as well as other BBC sports programmes such as Grandstand and Sportsnight.
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 FIFA World Cup in America, and was the BBC's reporter-in-residence in the England camp during Euro 96 and the 1998 FIFA 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 BBC One on October 1 2006, Ray mentioned he would be celebrating his 50th birthday the following week. Ray also is the voice over for the Everton Season Review DVDs and Videos that are released at the end of each season.
Ray has been a big supporter of Sport Relief and has become the project's action hero. In 2002 he was dropped 100 feet into a pile of boxes, in 2004 he was suspended from a crane and swung into a giant ball of dung and in 2006 was tied to a post and bombarded by 15,000 bouncy balls. In 2007 he took part in Comic Relief does Fame Academy and made it to the last five before being struck down by an upper respiratory tract infection. Despite his illness, he still performed twice on the night before being voted out by three of his fellow students so he could go home and recover.