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Sky Sports bringing back popular football show that was controversially scrapped

Sky Sports bringing back popular football show that was controversially scrapped

Daily Mirror12 hours ago
Sky Sports are set to revive the popular Sunday Supplement football programme, which was axed in 2020, and a similar format looks set to return with a new name ahead of the new Premier League season
Sky Sports have reportedly decided to bring back a new version of its Sunday Supplement programme. The panel show was axed in 2020 after two decades on the air, but now looks set for a return.
The programme began life as Hold the Back Page in 1999 and saw guest sports reporters discussing the week's biggest stories on a Friday evening. However, under the stewardship of the late Jimmy Hill, it was soon moved to Sunday morning, when all the pressing news, results and gossip of the week were discussed.

Upon Hill's exit in 2007, both the Daily Express' Bill Bradshaw and the Daily Star's Brian Woolnough took up the role of presenters.

Ex-The Sun journalist Neil Ashton later took over before Jacqui Oatley became its first female presenter in 2020. But that same year, the show was controversially cancelled due to a tight Sky Sports schedule.
A Sky spokesperson said at the time: "The huge volume of live football since the restart and a condensed season that has already begun means we must look at how best to deploy our resources for the benefit of our customers."
Yet, the show is set for a revamped return, reports the Daily Mail. It will be up and running again ahead of the 2025/26 Premier League season, and an official announcement is expected in the coming weeks.
The resurrected show will allegedly take on a different name, though it is expected to follow a similar format to its predecessor, with industry insiders discussing the week's storylines.
Sunday Supplement's axing came during a momentous network overhaul. Later in 2020, Sky announced that both The Debate and Goals on Sunday would also be leaving our screens. Goals on Sunday, like Sunday Supplement, started in 2000 and ran for two decades.

It was hosted by Sky icon and former Swindon Town and Brentford midfielder Chris Kamara, and he and co-host Ben Shepherd welcomed big-name guests each week. Both Alex Scott and Laura Woods also made appearances as presenters.
Another ex-Sky Sports big-hitter, Jeff Stelling, still can't quite fathom why the show was axed, and why Kamara was later enlisted to cover lower-league matches before departing the broadcaster for good in 2022.
"From out of nowhere, it all began to go wrong for Kammy," Stelling writes in his autobiography, Saturday Afternoon Fever. "Sky axed Goals on Sunday, though to this day, I don't understand why.

"They certainly had nothing to replace it with. They kept the name alive for a segment shown on Sky Sports News, but it bears no resemblance to the original.
"Previously, Kammy would always have been at the biggest in-vision game of the weekend, but now he found himself being sent to Championship or League One fixtures. He covered them with the same enthusiasm as he covered every game."
Soccer AM also suffered the axe in 2023 after 28 years on screen, having suffered a loss in regular viewership.
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