Sky Sports’ Soccer Saturday stalwart Jeff Stelling sarcastically savages BT Sport over their rival show, on live television


SKY SPORTS’ Soccer Saturday stalwart Jeff Stelling has savaged BT Sport over their rival show, on live TV.

The football-mad presenter, 61, took a pop at the broadcasters over their new TV show… Which failed to launch on the opening weekend of the Football League season.

Jeff Stelling laid into rivals BT Sport for not launching a show on Saturday
Jeff Stelling laid into rivals BT Sport for not launching a show on Saturday

BT will instead be kicking off their season’s coverage – given the horrendous task of attempting to match Sky’s Saturday coverage – next week, for the start of the Premier League campaign.

On live TV, Stelling tore into his rivals, saying: “I want to say welcome to our new rivals on the other channel.

“Nothing like a good bit of healthy competition and they’re on the air at 2.30pm…

Sky Sports man Jeff Stelling criticised BT for not putting on show for the opening weekend of the Football League season
Sky Sports man Jeff Stelling criticised BT for not putting on show for the opening weekend of the Football League season

“Oh, sorry. I’ve just heard that even though it’s the start of the football season today, they’re not bothering until next week when the Premier League starts.

“Well, in your own time boys…”

Unbelievable, Jeff…

Anyway, the sarcastic jibe lit a fire under the belly of Twitter, who were typically enthused by the war of words.

Here are some of the many, many responses…

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