There was much praise in today's newspapers for Charlotte Green after her debut as the voice of the BBC's classified football results.
The Observer's Niall McVeigh thought her performance "flawless" and that she had proved "a fitting new voice" after the 40-year stint by her predecessor, James Alexander Gordon.
She did the job "brilliantly", wrote Jim White in the Sunday Telegraph, who also considered her delivery "flawless". He waxed poetic about "her crystal enunciation, her perfect phrasing, her absolute command of her material."
"She sounded as though she'd been doing it for years," noted Boris Starling, in the Mail on Sunday. She was "word perfect".
Also on MailOnline, Mark Webster wrote of Green's "assured debut" and predicted that she "is clearly going to be the steadiest of hands on the tiller."
And Roland White, in the Sunday Times, likened Green's voice to "a lady vicar unexpectedly asking if you'd care to slip into something more comfortable."
In his article, headlined "Her silky syllables hit the back of the net", he reminded us of a gaffe from Green's Radio 4 news-reading past.
She evidently once spoke of a "cross-flannel cherry" going aground in the English Channel in high winds. It is easily done.
During my short spell as a news-reader in 1974, at the now-defunct BBC Radio Brighton, I read an item about the sinking of a German cargo ship. I recall bursting into uncontrollable laughter after saying: "The Hedwig Lunstedt, which stank off Sussex yesterday..."
