Richard Keys

Richard Keys
Born	(1957-04-23) 23 April 1957 Coventry, England.
Occupation	Television presenter

Richard Keys born April 23, 1957 in Coventry, England, is a television presenter on the British sports channel Sky Sports. In the mid to late 1980s, he co-presented TV-am, a breakfast show on the ITV network, with Anne Diamond.

He attended Whitley Abbey Comprehensive School in Whitley, Coventry.

Since 1992, he has been presenting Sky Sports' flagship live Premiership football programme on Sunday afternoons, Super Sunday. He previously also presented another live football programme on Sky Sports, Monday Night Football. Ian Payne took over Monday Night Football in 2003, which coincided with Sky gaining live rights for the UEFA Champions League.

On 12 November 2002, Richard was also conferred with an Honorary Degree of Doctor of letters from Coventry University.

Controversy

Richard Keys was involved in controversy while presenting The Faroe Islands against Scotland in a Euro 2008 qualifier on 6 June 2007 on Sky Sports. Shortly before closing the programme when he thought he was off-air he said "Nay promos, can't be arsed, that’s it, see ya. Come on. Yeah see ya. Daft little ground, silly game, fuck off." The feed was accidentally broadcast live on the Sky High Definition channel. Sky later apologized, noting that Keys was at the end of a six hour shift and was directing his comments towards the Faroe Islands' "quirky" stadium in Toftir rather than Scottish football. Richard Keys retained his position at Sky Sports.

References

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Some Richard Keys facts -

- He has interviewed everyone from Kylie Minogue to Kevin Keegan - He has presented coverage of every major final in Scotland and England - He has appeared on every terresterial television channel bar one - He is motivated by his love for Sports and journalism - He spent his early years as a disk jockey -He has 6 toes -He has also covered the Open, ryder cup, tennis and the benson and hedges masters, boxing in las vegas and tour de france - He won 64000 on WWTBAM with Andy Gray - He has more hair on arms than anyone in the whole World. - He has presented more live television than anyone in the whole World - He attended Whitley Abbey Comprehensive in Coventry - He has made love to over five thousand women in various exotic locations - His cheesy grin has made the cover of over 200 fashion magazines - In 2002 Richard was conferred with an Honourary Degree from Coventry University - In the 1980s he co-presented TV-am, a breakfast show, with Anne Diamond - Richard left a lucrative contract with ITV to become the face of Immac in 1995 - He is undecided as on what to ask for for Christmas - Richard Keys is infact an escaped gorilla called 'Wildfire' - He holds the world record for most fleas housed by a human being - He gave Lorrain Kelly gonorrhea - He once, after having the door held open for him by someone whilst walking into a building never said "thanks" - He is only the second person, behind Ruud van Nistelrooy, to recieve the Barclaycard Merit Award. (for doing 1000 live games) - 'Dickie' stood in for Michael J. Fox when playing the part of the werewolf in hit '80's movie Teen Wolf - Michael Jackson's appearence in his music video for "Thriller" was loosely based on Richard Keys appearence - Keys once turned down an offer of wild sexual congress from Jessica Alba, because he hadn't finished eating his breakfast waffles - 'Dickie' was created by Stan Lee - You need to have a bling rating of 8.7 on the richter scale to hang about with the Keysmeister - Keys was originally approached by George Lucas to play the part of Anakin Skywalker in Attack of the Clones. He turned it down on the grounds that English football fans could not do without him. George Lucas immediately understood. - Keysie can win a game of Connect 4 in only three moves - Richard Keys often participates in acts of swinging/occasional dogging with Georgie Thompson, Jamie Redknapp, and Louise Redknapp! They let Paul Merson watch sometimes. - He milks himself in the toilet to the thought of the female Sky Sports news readers - Richard Keys was the first man George Bush called after the September 11 terrorist attacks. - Richard Keys was born before his own mother - In 1962, Richard Keys secretly brokered the negotiations process between John F Kennedy and Nikita Krushchev to bring an end to the Cuban Missial Crisis - Sometimes when Richard eats soup he likes to slurp it loudly and make children laugh - Richard Keys was the second gunman on the grassy knowl - Richard Keys uses a "slightly humourous yet sufficiently business like with a thumping bass line" ringtone - For dilluting fruit juice, Richard Keys uses 1/3 concentrate, 2/3 water instead of the reccomended 1/4 concentrate, 3/4 water - Despite being an assassin in his early years, Richard went on to save the lives of over 1million starving children in Africa. - One time Jimi Hendrix was playing a concert at a cafe in Greenwich Village. Suddenly Richard Keys leaped up on stage and grabbed the guitar off him and started playing. Hendrix was so amazed by Key's talent that he vowed never to touch his guitar again. Keys told Hendrix that if there was one thing he was better at doing than playing the guitar, it was commentating on football matches. Hendrix agreed and said he would keep on playing in that case. Keys retired as a musician and went on to revolutionise the art of football commentary in ways never before imagined. - His longest live period in front of the camera came in November '96 when, over 18 hours, he was host for England's World Cup match with Georgia followed by four world title fights in Judgement Night including Holyfield's first victory over Tyson. - while training for Mr universe Keysie told the press "I dont do press ups i just push the earth down" - Once for charity, Key's commentated on two matches simultaneously. With his left eye he watched Millonarios v Colo Colo while commentating in Spanish, and with his right he watched Porto v Benfica while commentating in Portuguese. - Only two things give Keys an adrenaline rush; football and his tie collection - Keys maintains that Christmas tress shouldn't go up until 12 days before Christmas - He once played a game of PES online which had no lag at all. The opponent played as Barcelona. - He was once a referee on Pesfan in the early days, but found the work "too exhausting" - He cleans his teeth for 4 and half minutes exactly every day - Instead of the standard spreading butter or margarine and jam of choice on one side of toast, Keys adventerous nature makes him spread it on both sides. He also prefers his toast, "lightly toasted" setting the dial half way between 1 and 2 - He gets out of sticky situations by using his coveted cheesy grin - He wrote the lyrics and music to Spanish chart topping (for a record 56 weeks) song, "The ketchup song" - He sneezes at a speed of 85mph; 15 mph below average - He has had chicken pops 3 times thus far - As a joke, sometimes when people ask votes to be cast by raising the hand Keysie puts up two hands to try and trick the vote counter into thinking that there is 1 more vote than there is. Alledgedly this trick is what got Zinedine Zidane the "best player in the World Cup" award - He is a self confessed bell ringer addict

External links

• Video of outburst during Scotland vs Faroe Islands coverage