Obituary: ‘Vic Wakeling unlocked the office doors in the morning and turned off the lights at night’

Former Sky Sports managing director, Vic Wakeling, television broadcasting and football pioneer.

Grey-haired, softly spoken and slightly-built, Vic Wakeling gave no indication, when you first met him, that here was the man who played a bigger part than any other individual in the past quarter of a century in transforming not one but two industries.

Vic, who passed away last week at the age of 73, was a modest Geordie with a passion for sport and television journalism, and combined the two to spectacular effect as the driving force behind Sky Sports, from its launch in the early 1990s.