Ever fancied being a commentator for an England football game?  Do you have the wit, voice and knowledge to be a Martin Tyler or John Motson….or are you more of a David Pleat or Trevor Francis? I hope for your sake its the former!

Well last night The Football Association launched their latest Facebook competition app called “Be The Commentator“!

This is the latest in the recent range of competitions that has included ‘Facebook Row’ as the FA push more and more into the digital space.  The winner of the competition wins 5 tickets to the England v Sweden match on Tuesday 15th November at Wembley plus a signed England shirt.

The competition is an interesting take on generating User Generated Content (UGC) using social media.  This time it is not pictures and video but audio content.  The idea is to place yourself in the commentators seat and give it your best go at providing the voice for a nation to a 30 second clip of England v Portugal which finishes with Alan Shearer smashing one in.

When on the tab you can listen to the original commentary and it is even kind enough to flag up who is on the ball when they receive it.  The list includes Adams, Batty, Scholes and Shearer (it is quite an old clip!).

Are you going to put your vocal skills to the test?  It’s another interesting competition from the digital guys at The FA.  Be interesting to see how many people enter over the next couple of weeks.