I presented Soccer AM after Tim Lovejoy and Helen Chamberlain and remember thinking ‘This is awful’

talkSPORT host Andy Goldstein has explained why he isn’t sad to see Soccer AM cancelled, having previously hosted the show.

It has been revealed the sports entertainment show will come to an end this year after almost 30 years on our screens.

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Goldstein presented the popular show between 2007 and 2008, replacing Tim Lovejoy

Now, after nearly 30 years, the popular Saturday show is coming off the air

Sky Sports made the decision to end the long-running show, which is said to have left those involved in it ‘raging’.

A total of ten more episodes will air, taking it until the end of the current Premier League season.

Among a multitude of different presenters, talkSPORT’s very own Andy Goldstein was on the sofa to replace Tim Lovejoy in 2007 having been the presenter alongside Helen Chamberlain since 1996.

But as the talkSPORT Drive host explained, the magic was gone as soon as Lovejoy left.

Asked by Hawksbee and Jacobs whether he’s sad to see Soccer AM go, he replied: “Erm… no, not really.

“I mean, I was honoured to be part of it. I much preferred the Friday night show [Soccer AM spin-off ‘All-Sports Show’], I did four years of that.

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“I mean, I was honoured to be part of it. I much preferred the Friday night show, I did four years of that.

“The problem was that when I took over [on Soccer AM] from Tim [Lovejoy], it was a little bit like David Moyes taking over from Sir Alex Ferguson – you’re on a hiding to nothing.

“But when Tim left he also took all the writers with him, so I turned up and there was just blueprint whosoever left of that show, and I didn’t really enjoy it.

“I remember about four or five weeks in, I was sitting on the couch just thinking, ‘This is awful’, which is really sad because it was just such a phenomenon.

Goldstein now hosts talkSPORT Drive with Darren Bent

“Tim and Helen were just unbelievable doing that show, and then there was me sitting on the famous orange sofa with the dream job thinking, ‘Oh, it’s not as good as when I used to watch it’.

“I was really honoured to be part of it. I made lots of friends and I still speak to the gang – Tubes, Rocket and Adam as well.

“Really honoured that it’s on my CV, but I haven’t watched it for years. And not for any other reason other than I just don’t have time to sit in front of the telly on a Saturday morning.

“But yeah, sad that it’s finished because it was an unbelievable show and we all grew up with it.”

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