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Geoff Shreeves(born October 1964[1]) is a reporter on Sky Sports. He joined the channel in 1992, the first season of The Premier League.

Career

Shreeves went to Verulam School in St Albans.[2] His media career began in the United States in 1990, when Mick Luckhurst, a former National Football League player for the Atlanta Falcons, required a researcher for his role as presenter on TNT for the 1990 FIFA World Cup.[3] He began working for Sky Sports at the beginning of their coverage of the newly formed Premier League.[4]

He made his reporting debut in 1999 alongside Clare Tomlinson,[5] and now reports on the touch-line in Premier League matches on Sky Sports. He also reports for Fox Sports before Champions League games, and was a regular presenter for The Debate on Sky Sports before the show was discontinued in 2020.[6]

He appears in the FIFA video game franchise, providing injury updates during played matches.[7] Shreeves produced Football Godfathers for the Sky History channel where he interviewed Sven-Göran Eriksson, Louis Van Gaal, Roy Hodgson, Claudio Ranieri, Mark Noble and Gerard Houllier.[8]

References

  1. ^ "Date of Birth". Companies House. Retrieved 16 August 2022.
  2. ^ Wiki, Players. "Fox Sports Geoff Shreeves Biography". playerswiki.com. Players Wiki. Retrieved 8 February 2019.
  3. ^ Lopez-Menchero, Tomas Hill (24 February 2017). "Geoff Shreeves: Life behind the microphone". Palatinate. Retrieved 11 June 2022.
  4. ^ Davies, Christopher (20 May 2013). "FWA Interview: Geoff Shreeves". Football Writers' Association. Retrieved 11 June 2022.
  5. ^ Burton, Madeleine (16 September 2010). "Sky Sports presenter to launch Herts 10K". The Herts Advertiser. Retrieved 11 June 2022.
  6. ^ Wells, Darren (28 August 2020). "Sky Sports axe Goals on Sunday and The Debate as network's football overhaul continues". Daily Mirror. Retrieved 11 June 2022.
  7. ^ "Geoff Shreeves: One of the Most Famous Voices in Football". Champions Speakers. Retrieved 30 October 2019.
  8. ^ "Football Godfathers". Sky History. Retrieved 13 March 2022.


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