Giles: Sky duo were already on way out

REPUBLIC of Ireland legend John Giles believes Sky Sports were looking to replace Andy Gray and Richard Keys before the sexism row that erupted last week and says comments made about assistant referee Sian Massey were simply an excuse for the broadcaster.

“My take is that Sky wanted to get rid of him (Gray),” Giles said. “After all, it was from inside the leak came. Afterwards, to compound matters, they leaked more stuff that Gray had said and even went back to last year and stuff he had said before Christmas to the female presenter Charlotte Jackson. If what he did or said back then was so unacceptable, why did they not fire him there and then?”

Giles insists Gray and Keys were “foolish” to make the comments they did about Massey before the clash of Liverpool and Wolves had even kicked off last weekend.