Alan Tonge
@alan-tonge
Ex pro footballer Man Utd/ Exeter City. Finished young with injury. PhD. CPsychol. Senior Lecturer. BBC Radio co-comms for ECFC. Man Utd fan. Never give up 🙏 #mentalhealth #autism ‘From Red to Read’ Book link👇
This will be my 9th season covering Exeter City ‘in the North’ for BBC Radio Devon Sport. An absolute joy, honour and privilege to work with the brilliant James Vickery, Jed Penberthy, Ant Wareing and Jim Dale and I can’t wait to get going once again❤️📻🎤 Cmon The Grecians! #ecfc
It’s mental health awareness week. If needed, please speak to someone you trust and don’t suffer in silence. Psychological support is not for the weak; it’s for the strong to become even stronger 🙏 Pls RT
An absolutely brilliant weekend spent with some brilliant people in a brilliant city #ecfc
Me in Exeter 33 years ago and my son Sam now stood in the same spot! Beautiful city ❤️
Found it! Exeters goal at Fulham in a 1-1 draw, last game of the season to help keep us up! I was the number 3 jumping on Stuart Storers back to celebrate with the travelling Grecians! ❤️ Brilliant memory! #ecfc
I hope the first team lads listened to my advice around preparation for an anxiety fuelled, nerve jangling, last game of the season decider! It’s now or never! Cmon The Grecians! #ecfc
If you’re kicking your heels on Saturday 9th May, get yourself down to the park to support the Exeter old boys as they take on Tiverton old boys. 2.30pm kick off. Monies raised go to the Sporting Memories group. Cmon The Grecians 👊👊 #ecfc Pls RT
Another season done for ‘Grecians away in the North’ with BBC Radio Devon Sport. An absolute joy, honour and privilege to work alongside the brilliant James Vickery, Jed Penberthy, Jim Dale, Nathan Albon and my regular partner Ant Wareing. Thanks so much to those who have listened in 🙏 📻 🎤 #ecfc
Off to OT. Man Utd ex players association annual reunion dinner. Guests of honour Bryan Robson and Stevie Bruce. Always nice to see some old faces ❤️🇾🇪
Never forgotten. RIP. 🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹 🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹 🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹 🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹 🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹 🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹 🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹 🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹 🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹 🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹
Please send some Birthday love to my son Sam 🥳 23 years young today! Developing into an absolutely fantastic young man. Very proud ❤️
We were at Port Vale when Exeter last found those elusive 3 pts! Let’s hope we can bring some more luck with us on Sat! 🍀 If you’re not travelling, please join myself and the brill Anthony Wareing for build up/live match commentary at 3pm on BBC Radio Devon Sport 📻 🎤 Cmon The Grecians 👊👊 #ecfc
Abstract accepted for the Chartered Association of Sport and Exercise Sciences (CASES) 2026 conference in June ❤️ #CASES
A day of mixed emotions. Joy of celebrating a birthday and another year wiser but sadness that it would have been my dear twin brother’s birthday too. Sadly lost to sepsis at only 48 💔 ‘There is a light and it never goes out.’ Raise a glass to our kid. Never forgotten 🍻🙏🌹🇾🇪
2/2 Thanks so much to Ceefax for the share and providing a tune of the time too! Amazing! ☺️ Two goals in a week! Absolutely prolific! I peaked and it all went quickly downhill from there ha ha! 😂
1/2 Thanks so much to Ceefax for the share and providing a tune of the time too! Amazing! ☺️ Two goals in a week! Absolutely prolific! I peaked and it all went quickly downhill from there ha ha! 😂
If you’re not travelling up to Mansfield tomorrow, we’d love your company on BBC Radio Devon Sport ❤️ Build up from 2pm with the main man James Vickery, and live match commentary from 3pm with the brill Anthony Wareing and my good self 📻 🎤 Cmon The Grecians! 👊👊 #ecfc
Never forgotten. RIP The Flowers of English Football, RIP The Flowers of Manchester 🙏🇾🇪 🌹 🌹 🌹 🌹 🌹 🌹 🌹 🌹 🌹 🌹 🌹 🌹 🌹 🌹 🌹 🌹 🌹 🌹 🌹 🌹 🌹 🌹 🌹
If you’re not one of the Grecians travelling up to Port Vale, we’d absolutely love your company on BBC Radio Devon Sport to guide you through the action. Please join myself and the brilliant James Vickery/ Anthony Wareing for build up at 2pm and live match commentary from 3pm 📻 🎤 #ecfc
A massive thank you to everyone who supported and donated to the Santa commentary on BBC Radio Devon Sport pre Xmas raising much needed funds for Manchester Mind. Your donations will go towards funding mental health related projects and helping a lot of people 🙏 God bless to you all x
We had to cling to something Paul. It was a tough experience. Never nice getting beaten up! City miles above us levels wise. That said some of the goals we gave away were really poor!
If you’re not one of the the near 8,000 Exeter City fans travelling to Man City we’d absolutely love your company on BBC Radio Devon Sport as we steer you through the build up and match action 📻 🎤 ❤️ Let’s hope for at least one ‘get in you beauty’ 🙏 Cmon The Grecians 👊👊 #ecfc
If you’re not travelling up to Huddersfield on Sunday, we’d love your company on BBC Radio Devon Sport 📻 🎤 The manager said it’s about time we went to a big ground and won! Let’s hope it’s this one 🙏 Please join the brill James Vickery, Ant Wareing and my good self from 2pm with live comms at 3pm
Ho ho ho! Getting ready to set off on my sleigh to The Toughsheet Stadium and deliver some (hopefully) festive cheer 🎅 Cmon The Grecians! #ecfc
If you’d told me as a young Man Utd professional trying to make my way in the game, that I’d be back there over 30 years later with a PhD celebrating students graduating, I think I would’ve had you locked up! It’s mad where life takes you, it really is! The twists and turns eh?