Born and bred in Aston, Tom has been the voice of football in Birmingham for a generation, joining BRMB over twenty years ago it?s hard to imagine that Tom started off in life as an electrician.
After joining BRMB in '81, Tom achieved his dream to be Head of Birmingham Sport in 1994 and has since won numerous awards and been a finalist in the Sony Radio Awards and New York Radio Awards, winning bronze in the former in 1999 for Sports Broadcaster of the Year.
A big Birmingham City fan, Tom?s career highlight so far has to be when he became the first ever radio presenter to broadcast from the bench at Wembley, during the Leyland Daf Cup Final in 1992. Lou Macari smuggled him in as a physio in a tracksuit, with his headphones in a bucket!
Sport dominates Tom's life outside of work. He is player/manager of the Blues All Stars, a team of ex-Birmingham City players who play at charity football matches. They have raised in excess of £100,000 pounds for local charitable causes. When he?s not playing football, Tom likes to indulge in some of his favourite music. He is a big fan of Bruce Springsteen and also likes soul, Motown, reggae and just about any type of music, apart from punk and jazz.
When Robbie Williams went missing from Take That the world's media were searching for him. Tom found him watching Birmingham and got the exclusive interview that within hours was all over the world! As a result, Tom was the centre-spread in the teen mag Smash Hits – the oldest person ever to appear in the mag! Tom?s then 10 year old daughter was very impressed!
Source : http://www.brmb.co.uk/article.asp?id=8768
I think Tom Ross should recieve a star for his outstanding commentary and his brilliant radio show.
I totally agree, Tom definately deserves a star!
A Birmingham legend!