Happy retirement to Ian Robertson, last of the BBC’s cherished sporting voices

Corporation’s rugby correspondent will call it a day at the end of the 2018 autumn internationals and after 46 years on the firmIt is not easy putting words to televised sporting pictures, let alone painting the whole verbal picture for radio listeners. The temptation is to gabble on, desperately fill the silence and, if all else fails, state the bleeding obvious. To make the whole thing resemble a cosy, fireside chat with close mates is a great deal harder than it seems.Rugby has been especially lucky with many of its pre-eminent ‘voices.’ For years the late Bill McLaren imbued the sport with…