WARRINGTON Wolves may not have appeared in a major final for several years but one Warringtonian has been making his voice heard at all of rugby league's main events this year.
Rugby league fans will probably not know Pete Nuttall by name but anyone who attended Great Britain's test series with New Zealand, the Grand Final or the first Challenge Cup Final at the new Wembley Stadium will certainly have heard of him.
Nuttall, who hails from Padgate, is the RFL's matchday announcer - a dream job for a man who grew up as a Warrington Wolves fan at Padgate CE Primary School and was also the matchday announcer at Wilderspool in 2001 before a change of management at the club.
"I was just doing it as a hobby and I've managed to turn it into a career now," said the 35-year-old, who has his own matchday production company and also works for Leeds Rhinos and rugby union side, Wasps.
"It's great fun and I can't believe I get paid for watching rugby. As a Warrington boy from Padgate CE to now be doing this, it's unbelievable.
"I found myself in the middle of Old Trafford at the Grand Final with 60,000 people stood around me, reading out the teamsheets and halfway through that I was thinking, How on Earth did it come to be me being stood in the middle of Old Trafford in front of 60 or 70,000 people and everyone cheering when you say the person's name?'"
