Williams subsequently worked for the Daily Mail as a sub-editor having been recommended by his friend, the boxing commentator Harry Carpenter.
Williams was appointed by the Daily Mail as its Manchester football correspondent after his predecessor, Eric Thompson, was killed in the Munich air disaster in 1958.
[2] In a 2011 interview, Williams said: "It was a strange feeling for a young man from London to be sitting in the press box at Old Trafford with the new Busby Babes.
Jim White later wrote in a 2016 tribute article for the Daily Telegraph that "Williams's ability to trust the audience to appreciate what was going on was one of his abiding strengths.
Alongside Lynam's smooth, telegenic ease, Williams, with his unfashionable haircut and huge glasses, looked like a chemistry teacher who had taken a wrong turn on his way to the school lab.
"[2] Williams was also admonished by McEnroe himself, who told the umpire at the 1978 Davis Cup Final between the USA and Great Britain to "tell that Brit commentator to keep his voice down.