The departure of Andy Gray and Richard Keys from Sky Sports was a victory for football fans everywhere.
While some supporters worried that it would be impossible to replace the “banter” of the two hosts, most viewers were screaming out for analysts who weren’t just talking out of their arses every game.
Their dismissal paved the way for a new kind of in-depth analysis from the likes of Gary Neville, whose post-match enlightenments have become the gold standard by which all punditry is now judged.
But Keys and Gray found themselves a new home on beIN Sports, and the pair were up to their same game of bluffing their way through absolutely everything after Chelsea’s 2-1 defeat to Paris Saint-Germain on Tuesday night.
After a post-match interview with David Luiz was broadcast despite not being in English, Keys and Gray did their best to put words in the Brazilian’s mouth.
Gray jokingly cited his French O-Level as the basis of his translation, before former three-time European Cup-winner Graeme Souness pointed out that Luiz was, in fact, speaking his native language of Portuguese.
