Robert Primrose Wilson OBE (born 30 October 1941) is a former Scotland international football goalkeeper and later broadcaster / anchorman.

[3][4] Their Ashgate Road house was named "Threepwood" after the Galston, East Ayrshire farm where William Wilson was born.

[7] Wilson started late as a professional player, as his father would not let him sign papers with Manchester United as he thought it was not a reasonable job whilst he was a youth.

Despite sustaining a broken arm the following season, 1969–70, Wilson recovered and won his first trophy with Arsenal, the 1969–70 Inter-Cities Fairs Cup.

Understudy Geoff Barnett took his place, but Wilson regained the number one shirt once fully recovered, and was Arsenal's first-choice goalkeeper up until his surprisingly early retirement from playing in May 1974, at the age of 32.

As a student and teacher of goalkeeping, Wilson has identified his own signature technique as diving at his opponents' feet to save goals.

During the 1980s, he co-presented Match of the Day alongside Jimmy Hill, and also worked extensively on the BBC's World Cup coverage into the 1990s.

Wilson also read the sports bulletins on Breakfast News during the late 1980s and early-mid 1990s, and was one of the hosts of the BBC Olympics coverage from Seoul in 1988.

He also fronted ITV's coverage of Euro 96 and the 1998 World Cup, including England's loss to Argentina on penalties in the last 16 stage, which was watched by more than 23 million viewers.

The quartet helped lead Rovers to League Cup glory and a record-breaking successive number of clean sheets – a somewhat unrealistic achievement considering Wilson's age and the fact he had not played for more than 10 years.

[15] Wilson's great niece is Gina Coladangelo, a British businesswoman and lobbyist who made headlines in 2021 after exposure of her extramarital affair with Health Secretary Matt Hancock.

The organisation was established in Anna's memory and now helps some of the estimated 12,500 people in the UK, aged 16–40, who are diagnosed every year with the illness.