Martin Tyler, the world’s number one soccer commentator, celebrated 40 years of soccer commentating today after calling the Southampton-Chelsea game. Forty years ago, he commentated his first match featuring Southampton against Sheffield Wednesday.

In the interview with Sky Sports (see below), Tyler walks down memory lane and shares his insight into how things have changed from 1974 to 2014.

Always humble and an English gentlemen, the interview offers more insight into what makes Tyler the indisputable best soccer commentator on the planet.

Could we see Martin Tyler commentating the 2018 World Cup for FOX Sports? Stranger things have happened!

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