Gerald Morris Sinstadt (19 February 1930 – 10 November 2021) was an English sports commentator, broadcaster and newspaper columnist.
Whilst at BFBS he met a young 2nd Lieutenant doing his national service by the name of Barry Davies who was keen to try his hand at sports broadcasting.
From 1969 to 1981, he was the main football commentator/presenter for Granada Television in North West England, replacing Barry Davies who had moved to the BBC.
[7] During his ITV years he commentated on other sports, including all ball games at the 1972 Munich Olympics, snooker, golf and cricket.
As well as producing opera programmes,[8] from the beginning of 1982 until the end of the 1982–83 season Sinstadt commentated for TVS.
As of 2014, Sinstadt wrote a weekly column for The Sentinel newspaper in Staffordshire, reflecting on football and other sports.