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13th Jun 2016

Listen as BBC commentator loses his mind when Wes Hoolahan scored

"Hooollllaaahaaannnn"

Robert Redmond

Jonathan Pearce is a man prone to excitable commentary.

Exhibit A:

But even by the standards of the bombastic BBC commentator, this was something else.

Pearce was as excited as every man, woman and child in Ireland when Wes Hoolahan opened the scoring against Sweden in Paris – if not more so.

Seamus Coleman cut the ball back across the penalty area, finding Hoolahan unmarked, who smashed it home before running off like Marco Tardelli circa 1982.

Pearce’s excitable style of commentary is an acquired taste, but it fitted this moment perfectly.

The Spanish language commentary wasn’t bad either.