Jeff Stelling has picked former Soccer Saturday star Rodney Marsh as the “most difficult colleague” he worked with.
Stelling, 68, left Sky Sports in May after a 25-year stint as the face of Soccer Saturday – one of the most beloved football shows on British television. During his time there, the veteran presenter worked with a number of high profile pundits and football legends.
But there was one colleague he ranked above all else as the hardest work in a new interview with talkSPORT – former Queens Park Rangers and Manchester City striker Rodney Marsh – who appeared on Soccer Saturday for 11 years.
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“The worst colleague I’ve ever worked on screen with? Rodney Marsh,” Stelling said while chuckling.
“Ex of talkSPORT as well of course. But, you know, Rodney was a difficult so and so. And that was just what we wanted.”
Marsh, who had been a popular mainstay on the Soccer Saturday panel, was sacked by Sky Sports in January 2005 after making a joke about the devastating tsunamis that struck Thailand a month earlier.
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The now 79-year-old sparked outrage when he made a pun, replacing the word tsunami with ‘Toon Army’. "David Beckham has turned down a move to Newcastle United because of trouble with the 'Toon Army in Asia,’” he had said.
Marsh apologised on air but it was not enough to save his job. His comments on ‘You’re On Sky Sports” – a show where callers were given the chance to vent their frustrations on topical football issues – were described as "offensive and inexcusable" by the broadcaster.
In a move later replicated by Stelling, Marsh then joined talkSPORT but left less than a year later. He followed it up with appearances on ITV's I'm a Celebrity…Get Me Out of Here! in 2007 and Celebrity Come Dine with Me on Channel 4.
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