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Richard Keys is a vacuous huckster who used to appear on Sky Sports alongside a garrulous ex-pro named Andy Gray. They left, abruptly, in January 2011, when some leaked video clips revealed them to be a pair of misogynistic bullies. Their departure was not widely mourned. Recently, they took their dubious double act to Al Jazeera television in Qatar, a place where such foibles are more benevolently regarded. And that might have been that, until last week, when Keys gave an interview to the Independent newspaper. It was a riveting study in rampant self-delusion. Within days, people were reciting whole chunks of his ramblings. The names of Alan Partridge and David Brent were regularly invoked, and with good reason. Keys’s trumpeting of a comically underwhelming guest list — ‘We’ve had Peter Reid. We’ve had David Platt. Peter Schmeichel is coming. Terry Venables is coming’ — became an instant classic which sat snugly alongside: ‘I’m Alan Partridge. Join me tonight when my guests will be, I don’t know, Chris Rea.’ While his bizarre buttering-up of Gray as ‘The best, the Daddy of them all, the guy who invented it’, faithfully echoes the gushing banality of Brent’s: ‘If you were to ask me to name three geniuses, I probably wouldn’t say Einstein, Newton … I’d go Milligan, Cleese, Everett. Sessions.’ For, in the world of Richard Keys, self-awareness never raises its voice and bitterness is nakedly paraded. Thus he babbles his resentment of Sky’s Monday Night Football, with its new and infinitely more interesting presenters Gary Neville and Jamie Carragher: ‘I just don’t know if that formula works the way they want it to now. We used to bring guests in occasionally when Andy and I were doing it. It never worked.’ Strangely, he does not draw the obvious conclusion. So, is he Brent or is he Partridge? Well, we learn that he watches that haven of #@&%!ed adolescents called Top Gear and thinks it ‘sensational’. And he insists, with paranoid certainty, that ‘dark forces’ prised him out of Sky. Finally, he tells us that the medieval emirate of Qatar is just the sort of place where he feels at home. If Partridge should ever require a holiday relief, then our Richard is ready and waiting. Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/foo...#ixzz2feVfb3CT Follow us: @MailOnline on Twitter | DailyMail on Facebook |
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