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Ray has enjoyed a varied career. He was
initially a professional footballer, leaving school to join Tranmere Rovers FC,
where he played for five years.
After ending his playing career, he
stayed with the club in an administrative capacity and then spent three years
with BBC Radio Merseyside as a reporter and presenter.
In 1986, Ray moved to BBC Manchester as
an assistant producer, working on the coverage of sports including snooker,
darts and bowls, and on A Question Of Sport.
He also worked as a producer, reporter
and presenter on BBC Two's investigative sports series On The Line, which took
him to Italy in 1990 to report on England football fans at the World Cup.
Later that year, Ray began working as a
reporter on Grandstand, Match Of The Day and Sportsnight. He reported from the
Irish camp during the 1994 World Cup in America, and was the BBC's
reporter-in-residence in the England camp during Euro 96 and the 1998 World Cup
in France.
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