Roy Keane “ affected ” by clashes with fans but signs a new Sky sports affair

Roy Keane signed a new agreement to Sky Sports despite his “assigned” by clashes with supporters in matches.

Sky examined the security arrangements for their expertise team after a man was found guilty of Keane head to the Emirates in 2023. The Sky Pundit was also confronted with Ipswich Town last season.

On Tuesday, Sky said that the former Manchester United captain had been affected by abuse and even assault incidents when he worked in matches in recent seasons.

“Roy is a great guy – a brilliant teammate,” said Gary Hughes, director of Sky football. “He has had some incidents in the past two seasons … and that affects him.

“In the end, as far as he is concerned, he wants to be involved in the biggest games. He likes to work with us. He wants to be in Old Trafford for Manchester United against Arsenal. There will be more Roy next season.”

“It is our responsibility to ensure that we do not expose any of our team to this kind of incident,” said Jonathan Licht, CEO of Sky Sports. “There were conversations that we had immediately – I think he was back with us after the weekend. He likes to be one of the big games and we hope it will continue. ”

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Meanwhile, Mark Chapman will do two thirds of BBC Day match The double team also presenting live coverage of the Premier League on Sky Sports.

Like Kelly Cates, Chapman will combine her role as part of the new Day match The team that replaced Gary Lineker with work as one of the main presenters of the Sky for a season during which they will project at least 215 of the 380 Premier League matches. This is compared to 128 in the cycle of previous rights.

Dave Jones will be the other main presenter of the coverage of the Premier League of Sky Sports, while Gabby Logan will also join Cates and Chapman in the show of long highlights of the BBC Saturday evening.

Licht said that the decision to bring Chapman for his extended Premier League coverage was simply rooted in the desire to obtain the best presenters. Chapman has an association of almost 30 years with the BBC, the most important as a presenter of Match of day 2and should now host the first principal Day match Sunday of the post-Gary Lineker era.

From Cates and Chapman, Licht said: “Exceptional presenters – I think it’s better for everyone. We will work with them and work with the BBC. We are optimistic that it will work very well. We get the best presenters and they too. Everything is fine.”

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Hughes added that “we are all adults” by expressing their expectations that the Rotas can be aligned but recognized that it was “a new territory” for the radediffusers.

“Obviously, we have more matches this season, we need more presenters,” he said. “He will work on weekends … and we will work with him and Kelly. We are delighted that Kelly works on Day match. We have control of the calendar in terms of picking matches. We are all adults and we will see how it goes. We can’t wait to have everyone on board. »»

Chapman will also continue to present the cover of the Sky Sports Carabao Cup.

Sky, meanwhile, hope that their disagreement with Nottingham Forest will be resolved and that they will be able to take over a usual coverage after Gary Neville has been banned from the city’s land for the final match last season after his criticism of the owner Evangelos Marinakis.