What is it really like presenting Match of the Day?
In this episode, Romesh is joined by sports broadcaster Kelly Cates to talk about her remarkable career in football journalism, from becoming one of the original faces of Sky Sports News to stepping into the Match of the Day studio.
Kelly opens up about growing up surrounded by football, how sports broadcasting has changed over the last three decades and why she deliberately avoids reading comments (good and bad) about her work.
They discuss the modern pressures that face footballers today and what it's really like presenting one of the UK's most iconic sports programmes. Plus, there's a maths geek-out, a question from Shanthi, Misquoted and even a message from Jamie Redknapp.
A Ranga Bee Production in partnership with Platform Media.
Chapters
00:00 Intro
01:31 A gift for Kelly
02:57 On Ready Steady Cook
05:35 Growing up in football
09:24 A question from Shanthi
10:25 Sport injuries
12:05 On Jamie Redknapp
14:08 A question from Jamie
16:00 Maths geek out
19:30 Sky Sports News
22:22 Broadcast journalism
26:50 Expectations of footballers
27:40 Media & journalism changing
31:13 “Unicorn” footballers
32:43 Match of the Day
37:57 Career progression
41:04 A sidenote on trains
41:48 The World Cup
45:22 Misquoted
55:53 An exclusive
56:18 Outro
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