Richard Keys

This nation is going to dance all night.

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Question one, listeners.

Which game is Richard Keys very passionately previewing here?

There are many different ways of playing this wonderful game of ours.

... which marked, which marked the 10-year anniversary of their departures.

It was January 2011 that, uh, Richard Keys was forced to resign following the Sian Massey row.

So 2011 is, I guess, that kind of, that, that hinge point, right? Like, 20- 2011 is the end of one era of Sky Sports and the start of another era.

Like, it's the end of Keys and Gray and it's the start of Neville, and obviously with Neville then came Carragher, and that's the, that is probably the dominant story of Sky Sports in the 21st century, right? Is the transition between, between those two different, those two different phases.

... they're, they were the faces of the Premier League, weren't they, for on TV?

Yeah, I mean, I think they probably had to leave the stage to create the space for the Neville and Carragher era.

Uh, I think I'm right in s- I think I'm right in saying that Richard Keys has claimed to me that he was responsible for the idea of getting Neville on, onto Sky in the first instance.

So I don't think, I, I don't really think of the, I don't really think of, like, Neville in the in- first instance as being kind of in opposition to Keys.

While Mikelarteta got booked for leaving his technical area.

Somewhere Richard Keys is watching on, furiously masturbating.

Number three, Raya hard saves a soft pen.

Soft penalty to Sunderland.

Yes, it makes common sense.

But on the other side of it, what's frustrated me, uh, Andy and Richard, is that they were fined 10 million and 70, 10.75 million.

Sorry, no.

They, they should've been fined 500 million.

... then I think that would have a much harder effect on the, on the club, um, going forward.

I think it would make it, uh, less likely that they're gonna be doing these sort of things.

But when everything comes out, Andy, you know full well, and Richard-

Mm-hmm

Okay.

Uh, Richard Keys off Sky Sports-

Ooh, he's-

... apparently has a massive head, and he's very hairy.

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And you've got the Richard Keys head next door, so you could put that on maybe.

Uh, yeah, I guess so.

Do-

We can talk about that.

[laughs]

Do the Richard Keys head.

Oh, we could do the Richard Keys head.

... lovely city.

Do you think I've upset the Lyon fans enough?

I think they were previously quite big fry, weren't they? They won the league like eight years in a row.

Eight years a- in a row eight years ago, my friend.

... apart from Kaya-

[laughs]

... who loves all, all past Arsenal fans, came back out of nowhere, a bit of a quiet, uh, Everton signing, all of a sudden scored a, a lovely, terrific goal to level it up in 96 minutes, and that was of course on his Everton debut.

It was a goal that made everyone who was here in the office go, "Ooh."

but they get, you do get the lost-

You know when you lost your Richard Keys head on the train?

Yeah.

Did you think about, "Hmm, it might be in Istanbul"?

Yeah.

Yeah, uh, uh, excuse me, but I don't wanna go all Richard Keys, "There was a top flight before the PL."

Yeah, here we go.

Yeah.