Gary Taphouse
Gary Taphouse is a football commentator on TV and radio from Bournemouth, England. He mainly works for Sky Sports, BT Sport and Premier League Productions.
He has worked for Sky Sports since 2005 and commentates on English Premier League matches for Sky Sports' Match Choice programme throughout the football season. He has also covered EFL matches, MLS games, League Cup ties, La Liga matches, World Cup qualifiers and Champions League matches for the channel.
Taphouse commentated for talkSPORT radio from 2014-2019. He was part of their commentary team for the FA Cup, the 2014 FIFA World Cup in Brazil, the 2016 UEFA European Championships in France and the 2018 FIFA World Cup in Russia.
He also commentates for PLP, who supply overseas broadcasters with TV coverage of the Premier League. In addition he works for Gravity Media and Pitch International, who supply world feed commentaries on such competitions as the FA Cup, League Cup and UEFA Champions League.
In the past he has worked for the likes of Capital Radio and the GMG Radio group. Before that he had some print and online experience and worked for football analysts Opta.
He is on Twitter and is followed by many budding sports journalists because of the large number of industry-specific vacancies he posts on his timeline.
He has also commentated on FIFA esports tournaments and has hosted numerous football-related charity events.
