Sky Sports give Gary Neville free rein to bait Liverpool fans
Sky Sports are turning a blind eye to their top pundit Gary Neville sending out controversial anti-Liverpool comments on social media following the Champions League final.
His tweets to his 4m followers included the poem: 'They thought they'd conquered Europe; Celebrating six; Thank you Gareth Bale; Made them look like D****; The Twenty Sixth of May; Always in our heart; United won the Treble; The scousers fell apart.'
It is remarkable that the former Manchester United player should try to stoke the rivalry between the two clubs in juvenile fashion at such a time, especially considering the Jamie Carragher situation.
Carragher, who has formed a popular double act with Neville on Sky's Monday Night Football, is still waiting to hear whether his employers will have him back next season.
He was taken off air after spitting through his car window in the direction of a 14-year-old girl after her father had wound up Carragher on the motorway following Manchester United's Premier League victory over his former club Liverpool in March.
Yet astonishingly Sky will not be even reminding Neville of his responsibilities, giving him the freedom to say what he wants within reason on his personal Twitter account.
A Sky spokesman said: 'We are aware of what Gary said on Twitter after the Champions League final, but it is not considered an issue.'
A Sky spokesman said the company are aware of Neville's (right) words, but it is not an issue
It is intriguing that Kirsty Gallacher decided to leave Sky Sports News shortly after Natalie Sawyer's contract wasn't renewed.
Sawyer, according to insiders, felt she was not given the same opportunities as Gallacher to host outside live coverage away from reading the sports news.
Head presenter Kirsty Gallacher recently stepped down from her position at Sky Sports
Sky Sports News added pressure on the FA to make good their promise that all 23 players in Gareth Southgate's World Cup squad will be available for interview at the same time at St George's Park on Tuesday by promoting the date on air.
However, the FA are now faced with Phil Jones possibly missing the event with his partner due to give birth. And the FA might not want to subject Raheem Sterling to facing the Press.
Sterling's complicated personal life has been brought to the centre of attention following the fallout over his new gun tattoo.
Before that latest difficulty, Sterling sought advice from lawyer Austin Chessell, a family and child mediator at specialist family law firm Shortlands in Hammersmith.
Chessell said on Wednesday: 'I never talk about any of my clients' business.'
The FA are unlikely to let Raheem Sterling speak to media so soon after his tattoo incident
It has emerged that Zvonimir Boban, the former Croatia playmaker who is now deputy secretary-general of FIFA, was most responsible for persuading Gary Lineker to host the World Cup draw in Moscow despite BBC's Match of the Day presenter having previously been such an arch critic of FIFA.
End of Nursery Ground?
MCC say cricket will resume on the Nursery Ground after the six-year break needed to build the new £50m Compton & Edrich Stands at Lord's, with construction beginning next year.
But once MCC start increasing their lucrative big-match activities on the Nursery site, what chance is there of club standard cricket returning? Especially if it means paying property developer Charles Rifkind, who owns the Nursery End tunnels, increased rent estimated at £500,000-a-year for just a boundary rope over his strip of land.
England team sponsors Vauxhall are virtually giving up their FA sponsorship despite it not expiring until after the World Cup. There will be no sponsorship activity from Vauxhall in Russia nor are they sending any personnel to the tournament.
This compares to the £250,000 plus they spent in Brazil in 2014 that included naming rights to the England media centre in Rio, which was barely used due to the group-stage exit.