Soccer AM - being cancelled

[Deleted member 18121]

I'm going to take a stab and guess that not many on this forum are avid watchers.... But for me (aged 42) Soccer AM has been a part of my Saturday mornings for nearly 30 years.

It's definitely had highs and lows in terms of quality and entertainment value, but I feel that at the moment is quite a fun watch.

For me... It will be missed. Looks like it will finish at the end of this season.

 

[D-S]

Haven’t watched it since Helen Chamberlain and Tim Lovejoy, it was enjoyable, irreverent and innovative then - not sure how it has developed since but it had given us some good fun radio presenters since such as Max Rushden and Andy Goldstein.

 

[Orikoru]

I've never really watched it. I was never awake early enough on Saturdays. Seen plenty of clips from it though. I'm surprised they're getting rid of it. No wonder Bullard has gone full time on Tubes' golf YouTube channel, they'll have plenty of time together now.

 

[Fromtherough]

I'm going to take a stab and guess that not many on this forum are avid watchers.... But for me (aged 42) Soccer AM has been a part of my Saturday mornings for nearly 30 years.

It's definitely had highs and lows in terms of quality and entertainment value, but I feel that at the moment is quite a fun watch.

For me... It will be missed. Looks like it will finish at the end of this season.

I was gutted to hear this today. I’m 43 and like you have been a regular viewer for the majority of its run. I think the current format is great - bar the twin sisters, who do my head in. But they’re only a very recent addition. Will be a big miss for me.

 

[Old Colner]

It was a shadow of its former self, really went downhill once Tim & Hell’s Belles left.
I had watched it from the beginning but gave up once I started to play golf on Saturday morning’s, I watched it once when golf was cancelled and it was awful, now I do appreciate I have seen the earlier episodes and am myself getting older so it may be clouding my judgement.

 

[Deleted member 18121]

I was gutted to hear this today. I’m 43 and like you have been a regular viewer for the majority of its run. I think the current format is great - bar the twin sisters, who do my head in. But they’re only a very recent addition. Will be a big miss for me.

My son (he's 10) and I have same opinion as you on them... Their characters are decent and skills not bad, but their voices hurt our ears.

I think the sketch each week that fenners does pretending to be Jeff is massively underrated, some properly funny stuff.

But I guess the world has moved on and how it digests football is different... I'll always have fond memories though.

Well, maybe not the Max Rushden years....

 

[Deleted member 18121]

I've never really watched it. I was never awake early enough on Saturdays. Seen plenty of clips from it though. I'm surprised they're getting rid of it. No wonder Bullard has gone full time on Tubes' golf YouTube channel, they'll have plenty of time together now.

Yeah all makes sense now, hence why tubes has got himself another gig... He's been there from the start.

 

[AmandaJR]

Watched it from the beginning and even been on it a few times - via the phone ins

It can be really funny but also a bit blokey. The twins are way too annoying for my taste. Love the drills/skills challenges.

 

[GreiginFife]

Yeah all makes sense now, hence why tubes has got himself another gig... He's been there from the start.

Did he not also have a heart attack a few years back? That might have made him think about his work schedule.

 

[MACM85]

Did he not also have a heart attack a few years back? That might have made him think about his work schedule.

I beleive he did have a heart attack. He was also an alcoholic which he discusses in the Golf Life videos in the early days. Now sober and staying off the booze

 

[Bdill93]

Quite simply a show that made football/ being a fan fun for 20+ years

Cracking and will be missed

 

[Rooter]

Finally!! Should have been axed when Tim and Hells bells left. It was dog poop after that.

 

[Bunkermagnet]

Never watched it, ever. In fact Saturday mornings are too valuable to waste watching tv, but I understand each to their own.

 

[Pin-seeker]

Finally!! Should have been axed when Tim and Hells bells left. It was dog poop after that.

Imagine trying to get away with the soccerette’s now.
What an age

 

[GB72]

Bit sad to see it go as it had become a bit of an institution. That said, it rose to prominance durng the Loaded, Nuts and Zoo lad mag culture high and so I am surprised that it has lasted as long as it has considering the significant change in sensibilities since then.

 

[PJ87]

Available in all good book shops .. and bad ones aswell

 

[SaintHacker]

Finally!! Should have been axed when Tim and Hells bells left. It was dog poop after that.

Is the correct answer

 

[BrianM]

 

[BrianM]

Been 42 myself, I watched it every Saturday with Tim and Helen, once they stopped, I basically stopped watching it.
Socrrette was immense at the time

 

[Pin-seeker]

Been 42 myself, I watched it every Saturday with Tim and Helen, once they stopped, I basically stopped watching it.
Socrrette was immense at the time

Same for me,just 1 year younger