Alan Green
Alan Green
Alan Greenhas been a BBC Radio sports commentator since 1981, mainly on football but also on golf, rowing and the Olympic Games...
ProfessionSportscaster
Date of Birth25 June 1952
church consider
We consider them a sponsoring church if they're doing that.
thinking views church
I think what we're really bad at doing is recognising that it is possible to have lost of different views within the church.
emotion spirituality language
Spirituality is a natural part of ourselves, as natural as emotions, but we've got all the language wrong and made this divide between secularism and spirituality, whereas instead it's about being human.
thinking people church
I'd signed up not just for Christianity but the established Church of England. That has a particular history and I think we rather lost it in the 19th Century, we became so much part of empire and colonialism, the language of the Church Of England still reflects that Victorian time. As the 20th Century developed, not surprisingly people left the church and I can see the church's role in losing people.
beautiful song book
The [book of the bible] Song Of Songs is an amazing erotic love poem that the church has tried very hard not to notice. It is really beautiful, and musical in its poetry.
hymns raises-questions church
I grew up in the church, with traditional hymns, but at the same time I was beginning to listen to pop music, the mid-60s, The Beatles, which had just as much influence on me as those hymns did. Then the hippy stuff like Pink Floyd started to raise questions about how I lived my life and the world in which I lived.
teenager fall listening
As a teenager I was very clear that I wasn't in the church just to toe the line, but I saw there was a capacity within Christianity and the bible not to fall into line but to question the status quo, that's what kept me in the church. I was listening to the sort of music that did that questioning.
thinking expectations people
That level of expectation that I'm going to be conservative is really disappointing, but it is how many people think about clergy and the church
government giving enemy
In the time of Mrs Thatcher the church, to give it its due, spoke out and was an enemy of the Conservative government.
football blow watches
Phil Dowd checks his whistle and blows his watch.
opportunity giving people
I want to be able to open up the really good treasures of the Church and Christianity to people, and that's not going to be achieved by shouting at them to convert or they'll go to hell. It's about giving them an opportunity to reimagine Christianity.
games goal able
You don't score 64 goals in 86 games at the highest level without being able to score goals.