Popular volunteer to mark 50 years of rugby commentating

Popular volunteer to mark 50 years of rugby commentating

A DEDICATED volunteer is celebrating 50 years of rugby commentating.

Mike Cooper - 50 years of rugby commentary

Radio General’s Mike Cooper is celebrating 50 years of rugby commentary this month. It was early September 1975 when a young and nervous Mike Cooper climbed into a little window above the Wilderspool Stadium scoreboard to take his position to commentate on Warrington’s home game against Keighley, which they won 18 points to 16. On Saturday September 6, and now not so young, he will have completed 50 years of continuous service to patients with h…