Career
Known for his loud, exuberant commentaries, he has worked for both Radio Five Live and Match of the Day, as well as participating in other lower-profile sports programmes and Robot Wars. Pearce wanted to become a football player, but his career was ended after he broke his leg in 1974. He started his career in broadcasting at British Broadcasting Corporation Radio Bristol, and his first match commentary was Bristol Rovers against Exeter City in the League Cup.
He became a Sports Editor at the age of 23.
In 1987 he moved to London and Capital Radio where he launched Capital Gold Sport a year later. Pearce also commentated on a handful of minor Premier League games for Sky Sports in the 1992-1993 season, before his Radio 5 Live and Match Of The Day career.
Between 1998 and 2004, Pearce commentated on the Robot Wars television series, on British Broadcasting Corporation Two. Pearce will return for the rebooted series in 2016.
When Channel 5 (known as Five for some time) was launched in 1997, Pearce was signed as their lead football commentator.
His excitable style of commentary received criticism from some quarters. He joined British Broadcasting Corporation Radio Five Live in 2002 and was part of their 2002 Fédération internationale de football association World Cup commentary team He went on to present the station"s midweek sports programme Sport on Five from 2003 until 2005 and became a commentator for British Broadcasting Corporation television on Match of the Day in 2004.
He also lent his voice to Sensible Soccer, Ubisoft football game Action Soccer and Union of European Football Associations Striker.
Away from football, he was also the commentator on the programmes Robot Wars and Hole in the Wall. In 2005, he guest-starred in the Doctor Who audio drama The Game, in which he played a sports commentator named Garny Diblick.
Pearce joined the British Broadcasting Corporation"s Match of the Day team in 2004. He is one of the British Broadcasting Corporation"s front-line commentators alongside number one commentator Guy Mowbray, Steve Wilson and Simon Brotherton.
Pearce is a long-time Bristol City fan.
He lives in Hassocks, West Sussex, where he is chair of the junior section of Hassocks F.C.
