clubs Southampton and Brighton and Hove Albion. In September 1976 he also presented World of Sport, covering for regular presenter Dickie Davies who was on holiday on the 18 September edition, which led to Gordon Burns covering the presenter and commentator roles on both Kick Off and The Kick Off Match. Subsequently, he commentated on golf for Channel 4. He rejoined the BBC in the mid-1980s, working as a reporter and commentator for Football Focus and Match of the Day. He also covered other sports such as rowing, including commentating on some of the Steve Redgrave/Matthew Pinsent Olympic successes, and covering the Oxford and Cambridge Boat Race in the early 1990s, succeeding Harry Carpenter but soon replaced by Barry Davies. While at the BBC, he presented episodes of a BBC2 documentary series Football Fussball Voetbal, a history of European football leading up to Euro 96. He appeared in the Jimmy McGovern television docu-drama Hillsborough (1996), about the football tragedy, having been a BBC television reporter at the stadium while the disaster unfolded seven years earlier. In 1987, he was the first to voice the long-running Trans World Sport. Well into the 2000s Sinstadt continued to report from football grounds for BBC Sport's Final Score programme, broadcast on Saturday afternoons on BBC One and the BBC's interactive digital service. On 22 January 2011 he voiced a short obituary for former Bolton Wanderers and England forward Nat Lofthouse at the end of the BBC's Football Focus programme, and on 16 March 2013 he did the same following the death of his former BBC colleague Tony Gubba. Writing As of 2014, Sinstadt wrote a weekly column for The Sentinel newspaper in Staffordshire, reflecting on football and other sports. An author of three published novels in the 1960s, he remained an avid reader and posted book reviews on the Goodreads website, and as a Vine Voice on the Amazon website under the name of GS-trentham. Personal life Sinstadt lived in Stoke-on-Trent and remained actively involved in football, as a Staffordshire member of the FA Council and as vice-chairman of the North Staffordshire Youth League. He died on 10 November 2021, at the age of 91. References External links 1930 births 2021 deaths People from Folkestone English association football commentators English sports broadcasters English sportswriters English television presenters The Times people People educated at The Harvey Grammar School