After Dinner Sports Speaker

After Dinner Sports Speaker

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tighnamara

Original Poster:

2,186 posts

152 months

Tuesday 9th December 2014
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Organising a Sportsman Dinner and looking for some help on who would be good, a big name sometimes doesn't live up to expectations on the night.
Football oriented for the first speaker, second speaker open to ideas.

Looking at someone who will firstly draw people in and on the night keeps the crowd interested is funny, witty and can tell a good story.


muppetdave

2,118 posts

224 months

Tuesday 9th December 2014
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Martin Chivers? Not seen him speak myself, and not of that era, but met him and know people who've seen him who said he's a good speaker/entertainer.

buckline

377 posts

162 months

Wednesday 10th December 2014
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Gabby Logan - i kid you not. I saw her last night at an industry function. Loads of stories and quite naughty too.

Martin Bayfield - Consistently very funny over the last three years I've seen him. Wade Dooley comes in for a lot of stick.

anonymous-user

53 months

Wednesday 10th December 2014
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A bit random but Matthew Syed, olympic table tennis etc, and author of excellent sports science book "Bounce" is hosting the APM conference next year. Combine his sporting suceess with a good book and some interesting theories on human psychology/management etc and he could be quite a good call.

HD Adam

5,143 posts

183 months

Friday 12th December 2014
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I've seen Gary Lineker speak and he was very good.

Also Frank Dick, excellent speaker.

XJSJohn

15,959 posts

218 months

Friday 12th December 2014
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a mate of mine runs (so he says) one of the bigger agencies for this sort of thing .....

http://www.performingartistes.co.uk/


Kermit power

28,634 posts

212 months

Friday 12th December 2014
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Given that I was expecting to need subtitles, and I have zero interest in football, I was rather surprised at how good Alan Hansen was a few years back.

For the second, is your budget big enough to get Francois Pienaar talking about what winning the RWC meant to him and South Africa in general? That's one of the frankly not very many sports stories I would pay my own money to listen to!

tighnamara

Original Poster:

2,186 posts

152 months

Friday 12th December 2014
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Thanks all.
Will go and take a look of these, budget may be the sticking point.


Chessers

745 posts

211 months

Sunday 14th December 2014
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Will probably sound a bit random, but have heard that Jimmy White is a cracking after dinner speaker with loads of stories.

Edited by Chessers on Sunday 14th December 04:03

Thankyou4calling

10,595 posts

172 months

Wednesday 17th December 2014
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Roger Black was excellent.

tighnamara

Original Poster:

2,186 posts

152 months

Thursday 18th December 2014
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Looking like Ray Parlour and Jeff Winters as speakers.

GPS M-Jet

230 posts

183 months

Thursday 18th December 2014
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I've seen quite a few of these over the years and would have to say Alex Stepney was by far and away the best. Really nice, funny bloke with some amazing stories about George Best etc.