Description
Soccer Saturday is a weekly television programme broadcast on Sky Sports in the United Kingdom and Ireland during the football season. The programme updates viewers on the progress of association football games in the United Kingdom on Saturday afternoons. The current host is Jeff Stelling.
Soccer Saturday is broadcast from 12 pm on Sky Sports News HQ and lasts for up to six hours. The programme begins with the host and four regular in-studio pundits previewing the weekend's matches, reviewing recent results and debating current issues in football.
From 3 pm–5.15pm, Soccer Saturday provides running coverage of the 3 pm league matches, none of which are televised in the UK (and only one of which is televised in Ireland). The graphics display a vidiprinter and cycle through current scores in the English and Scottish leagues, with Jeff Stelling providing commentary on the events as they unfold. Significant events at the most high profile games – almost always in the Premier League – are described by the studio panel who each watch a game on a monitor. Other games deemed important are reported on by correspondents at the grounds connected to the studio by a video link.
Studio analysts: Matt Le Tissier, Paul Merson, Phil Thompson, Charlie Nicholas.
Match reporters: Tony Cottee, David Craig, Dickie Davies, Iain Dowie, Chris Kamara, Bryn Law, Alan McInally, Matt Murray, Rob Palmer, Johnny Phillips, John Salako, Neil Mellor, Peter Smith, Peter Stevenson, Paul Walsh, Kevin Watson and Bianca Westwood.
