Andy Townsend

Andy Townsend strikes me as the kind of dependable midfielder every team quietly needs. A Maidstone lad who carved out a Premier League career with Chelsea, Aston Villa and Middlesbrough, he later reinvented himself as a sharp co-commentator for Premier League Productions and CBS Sports. Not every great player can articulate the game once they retire, but Townsend reads matches with a real insider's eye. At 180 centimetres anchoring the middle of the park, he was never flashy, but his value was obvious. I admire people who win twice over, first on the pitch and then in the booth, and his love of football clearly endures.

Name (English)

Andy Townsend

Name (Japanese)

アンディ・タウンゼント

Reading

あんでぃ・たうんぜんと

Born

July 23, 1963 (age 63)

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Leo / Rabbit

Origin

Maidstone, United Kingdom

Height

180 cm

Occupation

association football player / television presenter / sports commentator

• Wikipedia (English)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andy%20Townsend
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q527899

Tags

• association football player
• television presenter
• sports commentator

Last updated

2026-06-21

Facts are limited to publicly available information up to 2024; non-public or unconfirmed items are omitted. English text is machine-assisted (facts translated by Sonnet, "My Take" written by Opus 4.8). The Japanese page is the source of record.