You're On Sky Sports

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, the show is now chaired by Gary Newbon. There will always be one or two panel members, whether former football professionals or others involved with the game in some form. Regulars often 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 an F.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. Gary Newbon hosts proceedings the majority of the time, other presenters are Geoff Shreeves, Paul Hawksbee and Chloe Everton.

Rodney Marsh was famously sacked in January 2005 after a making a joke about the Asian Tsunami that was judged to be in bad taste.

The program features 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 Winter of The Daily Telegraph and Shaun Custis (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 features 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".

The programme is currently hosted by a mixture of Jeff Shreeves, Gary Newbon and Chloe Everton

Infamous Incidents

One of the more infamous incidents to take place on "You're On Sky Sports", was when a caller called in and claimed "All Celtic players suck dick.Another moment was where a caller insulted Paul Merson for not praising Manchester Citys style of football, by calling him a degenerate crackhead.

Both times, Gary Newbon immediatally apologised for the insults.

External Links

* [http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=I3kRM7zCNOk Celtic players insulted by Irish caller]
* [http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=dr7NpDiKyS4 Paul Merson gets named a degenerate crackhead]