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Jacqui Oatley (born
1975 in
Codsall,
South Staffordshire near
Wolverhampton) is an
English football
commentator, notable for being the first female football commentator on the
BBC One programme
Match of the Day.
After wanting to play football professionally, Oatley graduated with a degree in
German from the
University of Leeds in
1996. After spending a year travelling the world, she moved to
London to work in
intellectual property as a Sales and Marketing Manager at Netsearchers International Ltd. While playing amateur football, Oatley sustained a dislocated
knee cap and ruptured
ligaments, which resulted in a reconstruction operation and ten months recovering on crutches.
Oatley decided to retrain as a journalist, studying print journalism at evening classes while broadcasting on
hospital radio. She then gave up her job and flat, and undertook a post graduate course in journalism at
Sheffield University. While studying she joined
BBC Radio Leeds as a sports reporter, and after graduation joined them full time, making her first commentary on a match between
Wakefield & Emley versus
Worksop Town in the
Unibond League.
Oatley returned to the
West Midlands to report and commentate for
BBC WM, and then transferred to
BBC London 94.9. She joined
BBC Radio Five Live in
2003, and made her debut as a commentator and the first woman to commentate on a football match on
British network radio in
2005 covering the England women’s internationals at the
2005 UEFA Women's Championship. Her subsequent interview with
UEFA President Lennart Johansson became an international news story due to his controversial comments on women’s football.
Oatley became the first female football commentator in the history of
BBC football programme
Match of the Day, Her performance on the programme was criticised by viewers, several of which wrote letters to the BBC requesting her dismissal. Some rival commentators have complained that Oatley had "leapfrogged" them because the BBC wanted a female commentator for "novelty value."
A lifelong
Wolverhampton Wanderers supporter, Oatley lives in
West London.
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