Sky Sports Two waiting in wings

Marina Hyde fears Richard Keys and Andy Gray have launched a stealth campaign to get their faces back on television screens.

I suppose there are more excruciating ways to try and get yourself back on the telly. Take Alan Partridge in a Castrol GTX jacket, attending the funeral of BBC commissioning editor Tony Hayers and attempting to extricate himself from a conversation with the widow to network with Hayers’ successor.

But even so, I find myself shuddering with the suspicion the Sky Sports Two have, in the past week or so, launched a stealth campaign to get their faces back on Britain’s screens.