You're On Sky Sports
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You're On Sky Sports is a topical football phone-in discussion television programme on Sky Sports 1
. Originally hosted by Rob Hawthorne
then Rob McCaffrey
and Gary Newbon
, the show is now chaired by Jason Cundy
. There will always be one or two panel members, whether former football professionals or others involved with the game in some form. Regulars include Steve Claridge
, Kenny Sansom
, Peter Beagrie
, Tony Gale
and Warren Barton
. The program usually aired at 10pm either the night of a UEFA Champions League
match or a Premier League match that is aired on Sky Sports
.
As from the start of the 2007/2008 season, YOSS is regularly broadcast at 7.30pm on Saturday evenings for 55 minutes, and every Wednesday evening around 10pm for 90 minutes. Cundy hosts proceedings the majority of the time, other presenters are Geoff Shreeves
, Paul Hawksbee
and Chloe Everton.
of The Daily Telegraph
and Shaun Curtis (albeit Chief Football Writer and not Sports Writer) of The Sun
are regulars. Prior to the 2006-07 season, this section was known as "Journo Phono".
Before going to commercial breaks, the show also featured a piece of football trivia, again often relating to statistics or records broken in recent football matches. This mini-segment was once entitled "Stat's The Way the Footy Rumbles," a play on the phrase "that's the way the cookie crumbles", but is now known as "Stat's The Way I Like It".
was famously sacked by Sky Sports in January 2005 after a making a joke about the Asian Tsunami that was judged to be in bad taste, saying: "David Beckham
has turned down a move to Newcastle United
because of trouble with the "Toon Army in Asia"." Marsh apologised on air, but this was not enough to save his job.
Sky Sports
Sky Sports is the brand name for a group of sports-oriented television channels operated by the UK and Ireland's main satellite pay-TV company, British Sky Broadcasting. Sky Sports is the dominant subscription television sports brand in the United Kingdom and Ireland...
. Originally hosted by Rob Hawthorne
Rob Hawthorne
Rob Hawthorne is a football commentator currently working for Sky Sports. He is most notable for his commentating alongside Andy Gray in the 2005 UEFA Champions League Final in Istanbul.He was born in Dudley, Worcestershire now West Midlands...
then Rob McCaffrey
Rob McCaffrey
Robert McCaffrey is a British television presenter. He is most notable for presenting shows such as Goals On Sunday and You're On Sky Sports...
and Gary Newbon
Gary Newbon
Gary Newbon is a television sports presenter and executive.He attended Culford School near Bury St Edmunds and upon leaving school he became a junior reporter in Cambridge and then a freelance Fleet Street journalist reporting on tennis and rugby...
, the show is now chaired by Jason Cundy
Jason Cundy
Jason Cundy is a former English footballer.-Football career:During his career, Cundy played for Chelsea , Tottenham Hotspur , Crystal Palace , Bristol City , Ipswich Town and...
. There will always be one or two panel members, whether former football professionals or others involved with the game in some form. Regulars include Steve Claridge
Steve Claridge
Stephen Edward Claridge is an English football player, pundit and coach. He is currently a pundit for BBC Sport football shows including Football Focus and the The Football League Show, whilst also playing as a striker for semi-professional team Gosport Borough.Claridge's career is known for its...
, Kenny Sansom
Kenny Sansom
Kenneth Graham Sansom is an English former footballer. Until overtaken by Ashley Cole in February 2011, he held the record for the number of caps for an England national football team full back, having appeared 86 times for his country between 1979 and 1988.- Crystal Palace :Sansom started out...
, Peter Beagrie
Peter Beagrie
Peter Sidney Beagrie is a former English footballer who played as a left-winger. He played for ten different clubs at professional level notably Everton, Manchester City, Bradford City and Scunthorpe United...
, Tony Gale
Tony Gale
Anthony Peter "Tony" Gale is an English former footballer who is now a regular pundit on Soccer Saturday...
and Warren Barton
Warren Barton
Warren Dean Barton is a former English football player and a TV Pundit for Fox Soccer Channel.-Club career:...
. The program usually aired at 10pm either the night of a UEFA Champions League
UEFA Champions League
The UEFA Champions League, known simply the Champions League and originally known as the European Champion Clubs' Cup or European Cup, is an annual international club football competition organised by the Union of European Football Associations since 1955 for the top football clubs in Europe. It...
match or a Premier League match that is aired on Sky Sports
Sky Sports
Sky Sports is the brand name for a group of sports-oriented television channels operated by the UK and Ireland's main satellite pay-TV company, British Sky Broadcasting. Sky Sports is the dominant subscription television sports brand in the United Kingdom and Ireland...
.
As from the start of the 2007/2008 season, YOSS is regularly broadcast at 7.30pm on Saturday evenings for 55 minutes, and every Wednesday evening around 10pm for 90 minutes. Cundy hosts proceedings the majority of the time, other presenters are Geoff Shreeves
Geoff Shreeves
Geoff Shreeves is a reporter on Sky Sports. He joined the channel in 1992, the first season of The Premiership.Geoff went to Verulam School in St Albans.He eventually made his reporting debut in 1999 alongside Clare Tomlinson....
, Paul Hawksbee
Paul Hawksbee
Paul Hawksbee presents the Hawksbee and Jacobs show alongside Andy Jacobs on talkSPORT and has also presented You're on Sky Sports on the Sky Sports subscription TV channel....
and Chloe Everton.
Former features
The program previously featured a section entitled "The Press Perspective" where a major national newspaper's head Sports Writer phones in to discuss the football topics of the week. Henry WinterHenry Winter
Henry Winter is an English sports journalist, currently football correspondent of The Daily Telegraph.The younger brother of Muslim scholar and academic Timothy Winter, Henry attended Westminster School and Edinburgh University.After graduation, he spent a year producing a magazine on sport in...
of The Daily Telegraph
The Daily Telegraph
The Daily Telegraph is a daily morning broadsheet newspaper distributed throughout the United Kingdom and internationally. The newspaper was founded by Arthur B...
and Shaun Curtis (albeit Chief Football Writer and not Sports Writer) of The Sun
The Sun (newspaper)
The Sun is a daily national tabloid newspaper published in the United Kingdom and owned by News Corporation. Sister editions are published in Glasgow and Dublin...
are regulars. Prior to the 2006-07 season, this section was known as "Journo Phono".
Before going to commercial breaks, the show also featured a piece of football trivia, again often relating to statistics or records broken in recent football matches. This mini-segment was once entitled "Stat's The Way the Footy Rumbles," a play on the phrase "that's the way the cookie crumbles", but is now known as "Stat's The Way I Like It".
Infamous incidents
Rodney MarshRodney Marsh (footballer)
Rodney William Marsh is an English retired footballer. He was named after HMS Rodney by his father, who served on the battleship. He played for Fulham, Queens Park Rangers, Manchester City, the Tampa Bay Rowdies and the England national team. Lately, he has been a pundit and a commentator on the...
was famously sacked by Sky Sports in January 2005 after a making a joke about the Asian Tsunami that was judged to be in bad taste, saying: "David Beckham
David Beckham
David Robert Joseph Beckham, OBE is an English footballer who plays midfield for Los Angeles Galaxy in Major League Soccer, having previously played for Manchester United, Preston North End, Real Madrid, and A.C...
has turned down a move to Newcastle United
Newcastle United F.C.
Newcastle United Football Club is an English professional association football club based in Newcastle upon Tyne, Tyne and Wear. The club was founded in 1892 by the merger of Newcastle East End and Newcastle West End, and has played at its current home ground, St James' Park, since the merger...
because of trouble with the "Toon Army in Asia"." Marsh apologised on air, but this was not enough to save his job.