Richard Keys quits Sky

The long-time host of the channel's Premier League football coverage conceded his position had become untenable.


Keys' TV partner Andy Gray was fired by the station yesterday and MirrorFootball understands touchline reporter Andy Burton is also about to leave.

Keys earlier claimed that "dark forces" have been at work in the sexism furore that has cost fellow presenter Andy Gray his job.

Keys, who admitted that he may be sacked too as Sky's football anchorman or quit himself, said he was wrong to have made the disparaging remarks about female assistant referee Sian Massey on Saturday but that he was prevented from making his apology public.

Keys told talkSPORT: "There are some dark forces at work here.

"I apologised on the Sunday. I realised how deeply wrong we were. Having done that I asked 'could we make people aware of the fact we had a conversation and that both parties felt it was right to move on'. I was told 'no'.

"Then 24 hours had passed, by which time the world had gone mad.

"I don't know why I was told 'no' and stopped from telling people what I had done."

Gray was sacked yesterday after a video clip showed him making inappropriate remarks to another presenter, Charlotte Jackson.