Larry Ryan: Is it the last bantz for Sky Soccer Saturday?

On Wednesday, Jeff Stelling lamented 'one of my saddest days ever at Sky Sports with the departure of three of my best mates'.

Jeff Stelling and the panel during a Gillette Soccer Saturday Live Show in 2012. Word is Jeff is disillusioned with the show. Picture: Bryn Lennon/Getty

As Charlie Nicholas once put it, 'you’d need Medusa to predict that'.

But it has come to pass — Charlie, Matt Le Tissier, and Phil Thompson have been turned to stone, or at least axed from Sky Soccer Saturday.