Johnny Nicholson: Richard Keys and Andy Gray - In a galaxy far, far away

It’s 10 years since Richard Keys and Andy Gray were axed by Sky Sports and took off to Qatar. Could the pair ever lead the line of Premier League coverage again? Keys seems under the delusion that the presenter and the pundit is the star. They are not. Football is the star.

Fri, 19 Feb, 2021 - 20:13

Johnny Nicholson

It's the big Merseyside derby this weekend and if it was 2010 it would’ve been brought to us on television by two men who were seemingly unassailable in their dominance of the satellite broadcasting of football, grinning like cats that not only got the cream but the whole dairy industry as well.

But in 2011 that all changed. In January, it was the 10th anniversary of when Richard Keys and Andy Gray were sacked from Sky Sports for...well you know what for. It was “one of the biggest carve ups in TV history” according to Richard, who is presumably keeping a list of carve-ups against which to compare the size of theirs.