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Topics: Jeff Stelling, Sky Sports
Josh Lawless
Jeff Stelling has hit out at former employers Sky Sports for inviting on a journalist who slammed the Soccer Saturday show he used to host.
Stelling left Sky after 30 years of service, presenting his final show on May 28.
The die-hard Hartlepool United fan has been working on talkSPORT's breakfast programme and anchored a goals show for Amazon Prime's Premier League matches.
But Stelling has blasted Sky, telling them they have "short memories" after seeing Jonathan Liew appear on Sky Sports News on Thursday night.
Liew was brought in alongside fellow reporter John Cross to talk about the scrapping of FA Cup replays next season.
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The Guardian writer and columnist said the decision was "a progressive move" and "makes sense for things like player welfare and fixture congestion".
But Stelling was having none of it and replying to a clip of the segment on X, wrote: "A progressive move would be to stop him spouting his nonsense on TV'".
Stelling's fury at seeing Liew get air-time is in relation to a damning piece the 38-year-old wrote about Soccer Saturday 12 years ago.
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Working for the Telegraph at the time, described the results show as "chortling, barrel-scraping, cod-football sewage".
Ex Arsenals star Paul Merson was called "moron-in-chief, while Chris Kamara was compared to a character from the 2000 movie Memento who is "unable to form new memories".
Stelling clearly still has an issue with the remarks more than a decade on and fumed: "In 2012 this person wrote a disgusting piece calling Soccer Saturday sewage and Merse "Moron in Chief". Yet now SSN pay him . They have short memories. I don’t."
Simon Thomas replaced Stelling as host of Soccer Saturday in the summer, while studio guests like Matt Le Tissier, Phil Thompson, Charlie Nicholas and Tony Cottee have been axed in recent years.