Richard Keys and Andy Gray talk about the launch of the Premier League and Sky Sports, The Qatar World Cup and the moment Andy Gray become the game's most expensive player.
Introduction:
On this week’s Old Spice Boys podcast, we’re speaking to a football pairing almost as famous as we are. As BBC documentary series 'Fever Pitch' this month features the birth of the Premier League, we’re delighted to have as our guests the two men who steered us through those formative years and are still at the heart of the sport, Richard Keys and Andy Gray.
Richard the anchor and Andy the analyst were at the heart of Sky Sports innovative, game-changing coverage of live football in the UK 30 years ago. Today, based in Doha, they present for Bein sports with the same, evocative blend of comment and news.
We welcome Richard and Andy to the podcast as the Premier League starts to take initial shape, the Champions League bubbles into action and new managers, like those at two of Andy’s former clubs, Everton and Wolves begin to bed in.
Show Notes:
- The advent of Sky Sports drove one leading manager to refuse to let his players speak to the company for the first year of its existence. Who was it?
- Why the Qatar World Cup should deliver a permanent winter break in English football
- Which current Premier League boss should not have to put up with his job any longer?
- The moment Andy Gray, who had just become the game's most expensive player when he joined Wolves from Aston Villa in 1979, walked barefoot across a Birmingham street.
- Rafa Benitez and why Everton shouldn't have appointed him,