Alan Parry (born 1948 in Garston, Liverpool)[1] is an English sports commentator, concentrating on football and athletics.
After the death of Maurice Edelston he started working alongside Peter Jones covering the FA Cup Final in 1976.
From 1981 he largely relinquished his radio football commentary to commentate for Match of the Day on BBC television and in 1982 was a member of the BBC Television commentary team for the World Cup in Spain his most famous commentaries was the shock 2-1 win by Algeria over the 1980 European Champions West Germany and West Germany's controversial 1-0 win over Austria in fact he did all 3 of West Germany's 1st round group games for the BBC ironically the ITV commentator was Hugh Johns who was at that time ITV's chief Football commentator in the Midlands a role that Alan Parry would later take for Central Sports Special and The Central Match and also he was a member of the BBC's Euro 1984 commentary team alongside John Motson.
[1] As well as covering national football and athletics, Parry was also heavily involved on a regional level, being Central's lead commentator for a number of years.
In more recent times, Parry has been one of Sky's 'Big Five' commentators – including Martin Tyler, Ian Darke, Bill Leslie.
However, during this period he continued to regularly commentate on Liverpool matches on the TWI International feed for overseas Premiership viewers.