by Rschel Ogbu//

Chris Kamara has become the face of British Sports television. The Sierra Leonean-British presenter who is famed for his antics as a pundit on Sky Sports has played for played Portsmouth, Swindon Town, Portsmouth, Brentford, Swindon Town, Stoke City, Leeds United, Luton Town, Sheffield United, Middlesbrough, Sheffield United, and Bradford City in more than 650 games.

His career in professional football also went into managing Bradford City and Stoke City teams which saw the 59-year-old take the latter from a relegation scrap to promotion out of the Second Division via the play-offs.

Since presenting Sky Sports’ Goals On Sunday show every week, Chris Kamara hasn’t stopped living, breathing, and sleeping football. He also provides additional commentary on some of Sky’s televised matches. In Britain, he became even more popular after he made a serious on-air gaffe not realising Anthony Vanden Borre had been sent off in the game between Portsmouth and Blackburn even though he was commentating on it- that incident went down as one of the funniest moments in sports TV .

Speaking on how he uses his skill as a footballer then also as a manager turned presenter, Kamara says he “wouldn’t want somebody just telling me I’m rubbish without explaining where I went wrong or how I did. It’s easy to say what happened, but people want to know how it happened and so we’re able to bring that insight into it. I do it through a manager’s eyes and that’s a reason why players don’t get upset. The last person people want to hear an opinion from is the guy sitting on the sofa in the corner who loves his football but whose only experience is running around in a park trying to kick people on a Sunday morning.”

“Goals On Sunday, in a very sneaky way, opens up football to you as an armchair fan. It’s very relaxed but it opens you up and educates you to the point where you’re ready for your roast and the afternoon game,” Chris Kamara tells the Express.

“He’s become such a part of our football furniture”, says John Nicholson for Football365. “While live audio reports from the grounds were common, cutting to a live reporter wasn’t done until Soccer Saturday came along. Now, it all seems commonplace, but it was Kammy who led the way. He’s quite genuinely an innovator. Is one of the few media people who has managed to establish a single word, ‘unbelievable’, as a kind of personal trademark.”

Rachel Ogbu

UK Based Strategic, multidisciplinary Writer with an eye for innovation and pixel perfection. MA in New Media and Internet Technologies. “Although my skill set is vast, my greatest expertise revolve in the worlds of social media, content creation and print collateral. My wish is to combine my knowledge and experience in these areas, to deliver the best creative to my employer’s clients and their audiences.”