He lets other teammates score. However, Keys believes the whole episode was a set-up and that himself or Gray have never been caught making such comments on-air. Absolutely. And Andy had to explain to her, It was absolutely nothing to do with you. Game-changing news in the Fifa corruption war, as Qatar unveils its Lord Haw-Haw. She is routinely recognised as the very best of the assistant referees in the elite Select Group 1. But, with Arsenal struggling at the wrong end of the Premier League table, Keys used his extensive managerial experience to offer Arteta some advice on player management. "He (Guardiola) could go and watch Roy Hodgson work, or bring Sam Allardyce in on a temporary basis. Theyre four games into the season. They had accumulated so much credit and fame and power that they looked untouchable at the pinnacle of British sports broadcasting. Richard Keys thinks Manchester United are effectively playing with ten men when they include Wout Weghorst in the team. Francis was waiting for Keys when he got there. Hancock spotted wearing Toon shirt hed promised to auction off for NHS during EFL Cup final, Watfords Ken Sema praised for his bravery after doing post-match interview while struggling with stammer, Douglas Ross responds after huge banner is unveiled during a Scottish Cup match he was refereeing, You dont get to say this: FIFA slammed over support for high-profile gay footballer, Arsenal squad depth image gets fans looking forward to new season, Elevenses: Fear and Loathing in the New Conservatives. Im hearing that the 49ers wanted him in last summer along with a wish list of players hed worked with before the likes of Minamino and Brenden Aaronson, Keys explained on his blog. Laura Woods has slated Richard Keys after he called out Arsenal fans for "over-celebrating" their 2-1 win over newly-promoted side Fulham yesterday. Keys and Gray had been there for 20 years but they still glowed with the fame of the job. He only really got involved in the sport after the birth of his son. Keys couches his response to the Sunday Timess allegations of widespread chicanery in the 2022 World Cup bid process as his caving into an irresistible clamour for him to break hissilence and having done so, offers an apologists masterclass. She has run the line at the 2017 European Championship, 2018 Champions League final and 2019 World Cup in the womens game, and recently moved into the mens Europa League. If Andy has gone, there is nothing I want to be associated with, no one I want to be working with left if that is the case. So Keys called up Sky Sports and told them that he was quitting. Irritating? Well, actually, you can.. A female assistant referee working in the mens game remains rare, however. 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If we drove similar cars, which we dont, his would have to be quicker than mine and Im sure it would be. And City have improved hugely defensively ever since, and have now kept clean sheets in each of their last four Premier League games. It was a set-up, of course it was, Keys told The Athletic. Sky Sports was not an old organisation it had only been around for 20 years but culturally it was very much a product of the 1990s. Andy wasnt live when he was stood pitchside. Keys still believes that his enemies set out to destroy his and Grays careers. Tuesday's result at the Hawthorns means they remain in 19th position in the table, six points adrift of 17th placed Brighton having played a game more. WebRichard Keys (born 23 April 1957 in Coventry) is an English sports presenter with a career starting in 1976 when he moved initially to London. So if any good came of it, maybe that did., Keys and Gray, who are still working together, bumped into Massey-Ellis at Birmingham Airport recently. Related: Arsenal squad depth image gets fans looking forward to new season, View our Privacy PolicyandTerms & Conditions, TheLondonEconomic.com Open, accessible and accountable news, sport, culture and lifestyle. There was an internal investigation to try to find out where the four clips had come from but it could not track down the responsible party. Richard Keys is still going on about the Arsenal , Nigel de Jong is spot on here pic.twitter.com/Z6VxDW8YWy, Harry Symeou (@HarrySymeou) August 29, 2022. No, Im looking forward to completing the next 1,000 matches. The International Centre for Sports Security is on its journey towards credibility so why not turn to Richard Keys? However, presenter Richard Keys who slammed the players and manager for celebrating their win. Why not? "Youre playing with ten men most weeks if hes in," he vented. United ran out 3-0 winners over Leicester City on Sunday afternoon thanks to a Marcus Rashford brace and Jadon Sancho's second goal in three Premier League games. Johnny Nicholson. Keys has revealed that he has heard Leeds part-owners the 49ers wanted to bring in Marsch last summer, along with two players the American worked with at Red Bull Salzburg in the shape of Takumi Minamino and Brenden Aaronson. With all the time that has passed, has Keys has said he and Gray are now more sensitive and embracing., But people, in every respect, are more careful and more gentle. And they trailed at one time. Quite right. Nobody at Talksport knew on that morning this would be one of the biggest days in the stations history. But above all, it centred on television, the stars in front of the camera, and the type of behaviour and language broadcasters and viewers expected of them. If this goes wrong theyre sunk and that 2024 buyout takes on a very different look.. And why is this irritating man allowed to spend 90 minutes outside of his technical area? As funny as this was, you can imagine Keys reacting to the news with a nauseating amount of self-satisfaction. Richard Keysand Andy Gray are now living in Qatar and working for beIN SPORTS. pic.twitter.com/yvs2i7egrj, I see @richardajkeys is still banging on about Arsenal over celebrating. So Francis and Jeremy Darroch, the CEO of Sky, had a decision to make. Keys, speaking to The Athletic from Qatar, says he had been repeatedly told by Sky Sports to apologise for his comments. Also, you should have seen Alan Shearer when we went to Germany and won 5-1. the cultural change of which Keys and Gray fell foul. James May wrote that Hammond "knows even less about football than I do, which must make his the least encyclopedic knowledge of the game ever recorded". pic.twitter.com/FI2SvkcXTZ, Just re-watched it and Richard Keys does indeed refer to Bernd Leno as Jay Leno. First Gary Neville and then Jamie Carragher have retired from playing to step into its studio, bringing the insights from their recent playing careers onto the screen. When we started out, we felt we had to do something slightly different, and those jackets certainly were. , Richard Keys (@richardajkeys) January 22, 2023, READ MORE: Seven Arsenal players Piers Morgan has ripped into & how they bit back. He said that he and Gray bumped into Massey recently and that they all laughed over the incident.. This was not allowed either. Er no, and that includes George Best hes never let us down. And everybodys forgotten!. Richard Keys said he has found Qataris 'a delight to do business with'. His anti #Arsenal agenda is sensational. All rights reserved. But they made capital out of it., He claims that there was a campaign orchestrated against him and his on-screen partner. Why not Leeds? After Paul the Octopus coiled off this mortal shuffle a few months after the 2010 World Cup, a Chinese film director called Jiang Xiao addressed local conspiracy theories with a film called Who Killed Paul the Octopus?, and declared herself 60-70% convinced that Paul had died before the World Cup final, and the Germans have been covering up his death and fooling us [with a body double] for a long time. Four years ago, Massey-Ellis was awarded the MBE for her groundbreaking work in football. What has happened to the once-great British Airways? You know, 2-0 to Arsenal, you know, that. That anger that I carry in my back pocket, I will never, ever put away.. Keys would practically produce the whole thing himself. Steady, its Fulham, Keys said to Gray, during beIN SPORTS post-match coverage of Arsenals 2-1 victory. I cant hide the fact I find him extremely irritating, waving his arms around like a windmill for 90 minutes, as if anybody can hear him. Somebodys fucked up big., Massey doing her job at Molineux that day in January 2011 (Photo: John Powell/Liverpool FC via Getty Images). A third clip emerged, this time posted to YouTube, of Gray making inappropriate comments to Sky Sports colleague Charlotte Jackson in December 2010. Expect a dossier, complete with diagrams and screenshots, on the FAs desk by the end of today. Keys did call her to apologise, Massey told the Times in 2017. Talk to anyone who worked there at the time, back in the cramped, old, low-rise Sky Sports building at Grant Way, the corporations base on west Londons industrial fringe. What could Keys possibly find irritating about a rich, talented, respected andconventionally handsome man like Arteta? WebRichard Keys (born 23 April 1957) is an English sports presenter, with a career starting in 1976 when he moved initially to London. Most people watching Aaron Ramsdale getting kicked by a Tottenham fan at the end of Januarys derby blamed the latter for the regrettable incident. It is the same logic as Keys insisting that his record was clean because he was never sexist on-air. Female linesman. The beIN SPORTS presenter suggested that Allardyce may be able to offer assistance in helping Manchester City with their defensive issues. Keys, speaking to The Athletic from Qatar, says he had been repeatedly told by Sky Sports to apologise for his comments. Every other coach has to stay in his area but not Arteta it seems. Monday Night Football, the show relaunched as a new platform for Keys and Gray just before they left, has become the networks flagship programme, setting standards for insight and analysis. @richardajkeys suggests the manager they should have signed! But by this point, the story had its own momentum, and the tapes kept coming. It was my workplace. Even for him, this has to be a new low, which says a lot given what he did to his family. That week, Francis would continually make the seven-minute walk across the campus, through the car park, from the Sky Sports building to Sky HQ, to meet with Darroch. There is said to be a consciousness about what constitutes appropriate behaviour and language that was missing in the past. Its only just recovering now. Chelsea, though he's worn a Donny hat before on the show, the India special I think when they're camping out. All of this landed on the desk of Francis, the young new managing director of Sky Sports. It showed Keys again using sexist language about a woman, this time in conversation with Jamie Redknapp, from a studio at a live game at Stamford Bridge. Gabriel Magalhaes went from zero to hero as he atoned for gifting Fulham the lead by scoring the winning goal and extending Arsenals perfect start to the Premier League season. He has not been back since. Read more, Editorial enquiries, please contact: [emailprotected], Commercial enquiries, please contact: [emailprotected]. They have won a London derby. And Ancelotti did leave Everton up sh*t creek without a paddle when he left for Spain last summer. Yes, this prick does, and yes, he always did. By doing it out of the blue in the January, halfway through the season, it was naturally hurting the quality of its coverage. Web Richard Keys (@richardajkeys) November 21, 2016. Sky had to work hard to find replacements: David Jones hosted instead, with Jamie Redknapp and Eidur Gudjohnsen providing punditry. Ive turned that to my advantage now so, if there are a few of us going to play golf, Ill play with him because when hes on your side, everything will go your way. We do not charge or put articles behind a paywall. While Gray was sacked after a separate leak showed the pundit making sexist comments about official Sian Massey-Ellis. The Netherlands international has recently dropped into a midfield role to allow Rashford to strut his stuff further up the pitch. On Soccer AM, the flagship Saturday morning show, Kelly Cates hosts Premier League football. Can you name Arsenals XI from Arsene Wengers last match as boss. Leeds have conceded 60 goals in just 26 Premier League games so far this season and will be looking for Marsch to tighten them up at the back quickly. 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For the next instalment of 90s Heroes check out the Bet Bright football blog this week. But Keys couldnt believe that the fans, players and manager were enjoying a win, making it four out of four. Does he has special dispensation? Last week, when she ruled a full-speed Timo Werner just offside in the Leicester vs Chelsea game and was vindicated by the technology, she was widely praised for getting such a difficult call correct.