Career
He also presents one of British Broadcasting Corporation One′s regional Late Kick Office programmes and co-presents British Broadcasting Corporation Radio 5 Live"s Football League discussion programme. Since the start of the 2013-2014 season he has presented live Conference Premier coverage on British Telecom Sport and the Football League"s "Football League Radio" programme. Clemmit has described his broadcasting career as a happy accident.
A chance comment on the way home from a football match, led to his idea for a radio fanzine programme, dedicated to his local team – Middlesbrough.
Producing and recording a pilot, Red Balls On Fire was first broadcast in 1998. The programme was initially given a five-week run on British Broadcasting Corporation Radio Cleveland.
(The station later rebranded itself as British Broadcasting Corporation Tees) Within nine months and on a small weekly budget, Red Balls On Fire was nominated for a Sony Radio Award, repeating the feat a year later. Clemmit came to the notice of British Broadcasting Corporation Radio 5 Live and he began to do interviews and match reports for them.
He has become a familiar voice on British Broadcasting Corporation Radio 5 Live, specialising in football below the Premier League.
He has presented the station"s flagship 5 Live Sport and their coverage of the Great North Run. He is also an occasional host of British Broadcasting Corporation Radio 5 Live Sports Extra"s coverage of the Football League. He has been a regular contributor to British Broadcasting Corporation Breakfast, the British Broadcasting Corporation News Channel and on Simon Mayo"s Sports Panel.
Clemmit"s television reporting credits include: Final Score, Football Focus, Match of the Day & Match of the Day 2.
He has also reported on major international football tournaments for the British Broadcasting Corporation. In 2009, Clemmit became the features reporter on British Broadcasting Corporation One′s The Football League Show. In an interview in 2009, Clemmit said: "I love the game at the lower levels.
There"s more access, more closeness to it, you don"t have to go through 100 other people before you can speak to the person you want. You can go to a lower league ground, knock on the manager"s door and if he"s not busy he"ll see you.
You see all the Premiership players arriving in what are virtual stagecoaches, dripping in diamonds, trailing their escorts.
There"s an aloofness about the game at that level that I"m not really comfortable with.".