Sky Sack - Le Tiss, Champagne Charlie and Thompson

I NOTICED that after sky spoiled my fav show sunday supp ,by ladies taking over ,theyve scrapped it , girl power for you

shame they won't get rid of jeff stelling

Times are tough .....

Former footballers have been axed ahead of the new Premier League season as part of widespread cost-cutting measures across the broadcaster

Matt Le Tissier has been axed by Sky Sports ahead of the 2020/21 season as part of cost-cutting measures across the broadcaster.

The former Southampton striker will no longer work on Sky’s coverage of the Premier League, which begins this weekend in the form of the Community Shield between Liverpool and Arsenal, after a decision was taken on Tuesday to end his contract.

Fellow ‘Soccer Saturday’ presenters Charlie Nicholas and Phil Thompson are understood to be other high-profile casualties, with Sky forced to slash its staff numbers due to the financial crisis brought on by the coronavirus pandemic.

Confirming his departure on Wednesday, Le Tissier wrote on Twitter: “Enjoyed my time at Sky Sports, time to look forward to life’s next challenge, thank you for the support down the years and special thanks to the backroom team which include @CazzaEccles @CarlyBassett @tvrevstats amongst many others, good luck all have a lovely day.”

The trio have been a part of the popular ‘Soccer Saturday’ goals programme throughout their time with Sky, and also appear regularly on Sky Sports News to give their reactions to breaking stories throughout the day.

Fronted by presenter Jeff Stelling, ‘Soccer Saturday’ saw Le Tissier, Nicholas and Thompson join others including Paul Merson and Phil McNulty to provide live updates across the Premier League and English Football League every weekend, but financial restraints have forced Sky into a reshuffle that will see them absent from the new Premier League campaign, which gets underway on 12 September - despite having nearly 50 years of broadcasting experience between them.

But Le Tissier saw his future with Sky come under scrutiny recently following his decision to wear a Black Lives Matter badge despite expressing his own views on social media that he did not entirely agree with the gesture, while he also urged his followers to “look beyond the headlines and government propaganda” in a critical post about Boris Johnson’s government’s handling of the coronavirus pandemic.

The comments triggered a number of complaints online to Sky Sports calling for his head, though the broadcaster is understood to have made this decision to release him from his contract without taking those complaints into consideration.

Stelling has agreed to take on tea making and cleaning duties in addition to a 90% salary cut in order to keep his position ....

another once unmissable show that is now unwatchable

yes but as posted they did the same with sunday supp and it was axed 3 months later,i for one wont be watching that sue smith etc screaming out of the screen on a saturday afternoon

Just googled and Sunday Supp has indeed been scrapped.  I've been watching this since the Jimmy Hill days.  I will miss it.  Maybe Neil Ashton knew this was coming?

so you think i sit there and say i no i,ll make something up and post that sunday supp has been axed,

without them do you think we,d have ever heard of
beans on toast
desmond [ 2v 2 ]
,
no we have scott telling souness about a low block

Sky's cull of  white, male, over 50's continues as Le Tissier, Nicholas and Thompson needlessly join Gower and Botham on the scrapheap as Sky's Virtue Signalling campaign gathers pace. Talent and popularity no longer count for anything.

What would Alf Garnett think

Seems their recent betting adverts starring these
3 stars and labelled
TOOLS
struck home

They have been very well paid for a job any of would do for a fraction ,so I have little sympathy as they will not be going to be poor house.

However this insane 1984 utopia we are living in where 3 white guys of an age who most people would agree do their job well in an entertaining way and nothins is said.
Compare if one female or BAME presenter was sacked in this manner  .

Perhaps when their PC version has viewing figures going through the hole and advertisers walks they might wake up to reality.

No surprise here surely...The NWO and their insidious campaign of cultural marxism over the last few decades is so ingrained into the public pysche that no one really bats an eye lid anymore.

Ironically as far as I can see, certainly online, the main groups of people prepared to question this narrative at the moment are women & the black community.

Hardly surprising when white males have been conditioned into self censorship, even self hatred for so long.

And before some smart @rse says it's only a few has beens being put out to pasture... Maybe you're right in this particular instance and an extended stay in a reeducation camp will set me straight in the not to distant future.

I think Corona Virus is probably an excuse, last couple of years they've had more females on, Alex Scott maybe will become a regular, Clinton Morrison has been on a fair few times.

I suppose it is a diversity issue, 5 white middle aged men on a prime time show doesn't reflect modern society, though really as a pundit on prime time you should be someone who's words carry some weight, an ex player who was a top player or won a lot of trophies so people can buy into your opinion more, that was the case with all 4 of them, if you're going to have a women and a black pundit all well and good, but make sure it's quality over a box ticking ticking exercise, Clinton Morrison was an average forward who is not the best speaker, Ian Wright would be great, won trophies, top draw striker and full of personality.

"full of personality" isn't something looked for in MSM television though, you're literally going to end up with generic, little personality, full of cliques individuals like this https://youtu.be/qAZ9ENh9LjE

This stuntpegg who has her own channel has already been on radio shows a lot and she knows very little about the game but has come straight out of drama school and talks well enough. If this is the future of football punditry I'm sorry you can keep the game. Its gone the same way comedy has gone in regards to MSM, no risks taken, and its not like these people are scared of offending people because they can't offend people, they are incapable of it because they are programmed drones with the milk still wet on their faces. To offend someone you need personality and some proper life experience, this lot don't have either.

We're at the point where rating football kits and stadiums every other week constitutes having vast knowledge about the game. These who do these pointless videos have 250k subs and 100k views per video. The game is soulless, full of soulless individuals, catered for them because they don't want people who know the game and who will not take much BS and actually speak their minds

SOCCER SATURDAY, sun supp worked because of the chemistry between  presenter and guests, when you introduce females the off the cuff .dressing room type banter goes and the shows become staccato ,the flow goes the men been careful ,over thinking what they say, imo
it would be like removing one of the lose women ,replacing her with a man and expecting the show to be the same, [ not that ive ever watched a nano second of lose women

got to be gutted for the blokes remaining instead of been passed a choco,jelly bean,crisp.nut along the line,they,ll be getting a stick of celery,piece of carrot,homous dip ,cottage cheese etc,

MSM shows are totally unwatchable and I refuse to believe they are getting 5m viewers as they claim as well