I think ol' Rodge is still alive...just looked him up and he has done Commentary/Narration for Newcastle DVDs, I found one earlier, The complete History of NUFC and Rodge is on there doing the voiceover, but that was back in 2003 when that came out...
Wondet what happened to the BBC guy Steve Sutton, I think it was
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