Andy Gray backed up his fellow pundit’s point, as he feels that Arteta never really fancied giving Ozil a chance from the moment he walked in. He presented Sky Sports coverage[4] of Premier League football since the league's inception in 1992. [3] While working at TV-am he also commentated on football matches for ITV and cycling for Channel 4, including two Tours de France. PART 2 – Football Manager 2020 Experiment, /static/uploads/2020/10/a44e2ea8ac2999f556cafd25b57abd12.png. Further clips were leaked showing co-presenter Andy Gray and Keys behaving in a sexist manner. Andy Gray Laughing At Women's Football with Richard Keys. 'Please come back': Some fans are trying to get Arsenal player to leave North London, Sky pundit claims Lampard player is proof that Arteta's missed a trick with Arsenal ace, {{#media.media_details}} [citation needed], From the age of four, Richard Keys had a passion for football, ever since his father took him to watch Coventry City play Swansea Town in the old Third Division.

[5], Keys apologised for the "prehistoric banter" and said: "Such comments were made off-air to work colleagues, and were, of course, never intended to be broadcast." Richard Keys has told BeIN Sports that he is ‘upset’ with Mikel Arteta’s decision to drop Mesut Ozil from Arsenal’s squad completely. “I don’t think you need to get to this stage,” he said. In 1982, he moved to Manchester to work at Piccadilly Radio as sports editor and football commentator. Richard Keys (born 23 April 1957) is an English sports presenter who has worked for BBC, ITV, Channel 4, Sky, Talksport, Al Jazeera, Fox Sports, ESPN Star Sports , BeIN Sports; and has presented many top-level football matches.[1]. 'Absolute class': Reported £43m Liverpool target would be another Edwards masterstroke, Report: £40m Liverpool target available for just £18m; Reds also want his teammate, Report: Tottenham now interested in signing £35m star, after director says he could be sold, {{#media.media_details}} His off-air comments about Massey and the fitness of women to officiate at football matches were recorded and leaked. In other news, 'Please come back': Some fans are trying to get Arsenal player to leave North London, What If The ‘Big 6’ Left The Premier League? This is absolutely disastrous news for Liverpool, if – and it’s a big IF – it’s true.

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[13], In 2002, Keys and Gray raised £64,000 for charity in the ITV show Who Wants to be a Millionaire. [11][12], In addition Keys and his ex-wife Julia Keys are patrons for the Willow Foundation, a charity for people with special needs, founded by the former Arsenal goalkeeper Bob Wilson in memory of his late daughter. But Keys has not been impressed by how the Arsenal boss has handled the situation. Ozil seemingly has absolutely no future at the Emirates Stadium while Arteta is in charge. Keys was one of the presenters for the Sports Channel on British Satellite Broadcasting (BSB) in spring 1990. That is not to defend what happened."[5]. Later in 2011, Keys returned to television broadcasting launching the boxing channel Boxnation[7] with boxing promoter Frank Warren. [citation needed], "Andy Gray and Richard Keys Added to Fox Soccer Channel World Cup Coverage | World Soccer Talk", "Richard Keys resigns from Sky Sports after sexism storm", "Richard Keys- Profile Page - Coventry University", "Andy Gray and Richard Keys win Sony Radio Academy Award for best sports programme - Mirror Online", "FE Dinner 2012 Premier League at 20 - Images | John Marshall (JM Enternational)", https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Richard_Keys&oldid=983173644, English association football commentators, Articles with unsourced statements from April 2020, Wikipedia articles in need of updating from April 2020, All Wikipedia articles in need of updating, Articles with unsourced statements from January 2014, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License, This page was last edited on 12 October 2020, at 17:52. Richard Keys has told BeIN Sports that he is ‘upset’ with Mikel Arteta’s decision to drop Mesut Ozil from Arsenal’s squad completely. In June 2013, Al Jazeera agreed a contract with Keys and Andy Gray. Being on the television presenting football may not leave Keys much time to relax in front of the box – but when he does, he makes sure it is in front of a state of the art screen. Richard Keys has revealed live on BeIN Sport that Liverpool could be without Virgil van Dijk for up to eight months. {{#media.focal_point}}. His job is to sit around watching football, he's got the hairiest hands in television and he plays air guitar.

His career started in London in 1976 when he began working for the Fleet Street Sports Agency Hayter's[2] until 1978, when he moved to Liverpool and worked at Radio City as a football commentator.

RICHARD Keys could be jailed for 15 years or even beaten with a LASH if he is proved to have had an affair with his daughter’s friend.

The shamed football pundit’s wife Julia has blaste… Later he fronted all of Sky Sports' Champions League coverage. “The thing that upsets me is that Arteta, particularly, there is better ways to deal with it than that.”. The Gunners could not break down a stubborn Leicester defence, as they fell to a 1-0 defeat, and there is an argument to suggest that having a player with Ozil’s creative talents available would have been useful last night. Richard Keys has revealed live on BeIN Sport that Liverpool could be without Virgil van Dijk for up to eight months. When BSB merged with Sky in 1991, the channel was renamed Sky Sports. He was educated at the now-defunct Whitley Abbey Comprehensive School, where he was head boy. In other news, Report: Tottenham now interested in signing £35m star, after director says he could be sold, Everton vs Liverpool: How Jurgen Klopp's men can silence noisy neighbours, /static/uploads/2020/10/660163_t_1602684058.jpg. He was the presenter of the flagship Super Sunday and also presented Sky's Monday Night Football, which coincided with Sky gaining rights for the UEFA Champions League. {{#media.focal_point}}, {{#media.media_details}} [8], In 2003, Keys has received an Honorary title from Coventry University (Honorary Doctor of Letters) for outstanding services to sports broadcasting.

In 1984 Keys moved back to London, where he joined the ITV network as one of the main anchors of breakfast show TV-am.

Ozil has regularly live-tweeted during Arsenal’s latest games, but they arguably missed him on the field yesterday. [citation needed], Keys and Geoff Shreeves have helped to raise money for Nordoff-Robbins (A musical charity for Children with Autism). He presented TV-am for the last time on 28 December 1990 before leaving for Sky Sports. And that gamble will have backfired in a huge way if it does transpire that they’ll be without best defender – who placed second in the Ballon d’Or stakes last year – for most of the season. Ozil has seemingly responded to the latest set-back by showing his support by the side on social media. [10], He has also received a variety of best sports presenter awards from different publications. Ozil will not feature for Arsenal until January at the very earliest, with the German’s time at the club surely coming to an end now. Coverage started for the 2013-14 season while they continued to present their TalkSport show from Qatar. It’s been a lukewarm defence of their title so far, with Klopp’s side dropping four points already, but things could get much worse without Van Dijk back there until next year. You could argue that Jurgen Klopp already needed another centre-back after Dejan Lovren left during the summer, but none was signed. “I get the feeling that the bridges are burnt between Arteta and Ozil, and they were burnt a long time ago – as soon as he got there,” Gray added. The powerful Reds centre-back lasted only 11 minutes of this afternoon’s 2-2 draw away to Everton. Have something to tell us about this article? He said, midway through Arsenal’s clash at Manchester City: “The information we are receiving is that he’s done his anterior cruciate ligament and if that is the case – well I say he’s done, with the incident with Jordan Pickford – and he will miss seven to eight months if that is the case.”. His career started in London in 1976 when he began working for the Fleet Street Sports Agency Hayter's until 1978, when he moved to Liverpool and worked at Radio City as a football commentator. Keys and Gray are now[needs update] the face of the BeIN Sports channels, which broadcast all 380 Premier League games per season, mainly on their flagship "Super Saturday" programme. — Richard Keys (@richardajkeys) August 29, 2018 Lessons in morality from Richard Keys — imagine it. Keys, 62, split from his wife of 34 years back in 2016 after allegedly having an affair with the then-28-year-old lawyer Lucie Rose, a friend of his daughter Jemma. They present English and European football coverage from Doha, Qatar, including the Premier League, UEFA Champions League, and FA Cup. {{#media.focal_point}}, {{#media.media_details}} JULIA KEYS devoted 36 years to her husband, TV sport host Richard – but then he had an affair with their daughter Jemma’s best friend Lucie Rose, and her … [9], In 2012, Keys and Andy Gray received the best sports programme prize for their talkSPORT show at the Sony Radio Academy Awards. [citation needed], In January 2011, Keys left Sky Sports after making derogatory comments about female assistant referee Sian Massey. Keys later joined talkSPORT radio,[6] where he presented on Saturday evenings. He added that "If off-air conversations of television and radio presenters were recorded, there would be no one left working. Toffees goalkeeper Jordan Pickford raced off his line and lunged into the Liverpool defender – who had one foot planted on the ground – and the broadcaster claims that BeIN Sport has been told that Van Dijk has suffered anterior cruciate ligament damage.