Liverpool hero Mark Lawrenson has slammed the BBC for axing the classified results service.

The traditional reading of the top flight, football league and Scottish results on BBC Radio goes back decades.

Fans returning to their cars or heading home on the train from matches have been able to listen to the results service on the radio since the 1950s.

But stunned supporters in the UK and around the world were surprised to find no reading of the results on the 5 Live Sports Report programme, the world's longest-running sports radio show.

Lawrenson, the former Football Focus pundit, made his feelings clear.

He tweeted: "Can't believe the BBC have dropped the Reading of the Classified results on Sports Report…..Talk about an OG..!! WTF…."

The classified results were first read out by John Webster as early as the 1950s.

He then passed the baton onto James Alexander Gordon in 1974, with his voice become one of the most recognisable in British broadcasting.

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