The first Sky Poker TV show of 2016! Guest-starring another former Premier League legend...

RICHORFORD

Evening all and Happy New Year!
Incredibly we are now into our TENTH YEAR of broadcasting.
2016 and Sky Poker TV is still going as strong as ever and now watched by more people than ever thanks to Sky Sports and YouTube.
So we're live this Tuesday night (5th January) for our first show of 2016. We're on Sky Sports 4 at 10pm for a...
                       

Usual deal, if you don't have Sky Sports then it'll be on YouTube in 7 days time. 
Our last show before Chrimbo, can be seen here.
And here's our first fight card of 2016...
              ----------------------------------------------- Ladieeeeeees and gentlemennnnnnnnnn!
It's... 
SCOTTY VERSUS COTTEE!
Your MC...                                                                 

Me!@richard_orford
In the pro corner...                                                              
                                          

The North Eastern Necromancer- Ian Simpson!@IanSimpsonPoker

In the celebrity corner...                                                
                                                   
                                       

Former West Ham, Everton, Leicester and England striker and now Sky Sports commentator Tony Cottee!@TonyCottee9

And analysing all of Tony's play (thus justifying the title of Scotty v Cottee!)...                                                                                                  

Rylan!@RyanSpittles                                                              
                           

Like Ray Parlour, who was on the show a few weeks ago, Tony is another legend from the early years of the Premier League. He was briefly the most expensive British transfer ever and he held the record for most Premier League goals scored in a single season for 15 years...until a certain Jamie Vardy became the new record holder a few weeks ago.

As for Ryan, he should know loads about Tony as it appears they're big mates in real life...

                                     

RICHORFORD

Show goes live tonight remember.

Should have loads of messages coming in for Tony tomorrow about his career and about what he thinks about all the latest news from the Premier league.

Tweet them in to #skypokertv 

and see you ringside at 10pm!

HENDRIK62

I do admire a man who can rock a tank top.....WP Richard Orford

Phantom66

Will there be another penalty shoot out? 

RICHORFORD

In Response to Re: The first Sky Poker TV show of 2016! Guest-starring another former Premier League legend...:

I do admire a man who can rock a tank top.....WP Richard Orford
Posted by HENDRIK62

Thankyou sir. Picture circa 2010. But to be fair I think they tank tops were about 20 years out of date even then.

RICHORFORD

In Response to Re: The first Sky Poker TV show of 2016! Guest-starring another former Premier League legend...:

Will there be another penalty shoot out? 
Posted by Phantom66

There will indeed, Phantom.

We haven't filmed it yet, and no spoilers...but let's just say it might be Ryan versus one of the Premier League's most prolific ever goalscorers! ;-)

craigcu12

When I played hat first hand against in I got him mixed up thinking he wasn't the pro

NChanning

 I just got round to watching this one. You had me worried for you Richard when Tony lost his chips so early on...can be tricky to keep the show going sometimes. I thought it was great though, lots of good stuff and perhaps Tony relaxed and was able to talk more when he wasn't actually playing poker.

RICHORFORD

In Response to Re: The first Sky Poker TV show of 2016! Guest-starring another former Premier League legend...:

 I just got round to watching this one. You had me worried for you Richard when Tony lost his chips so early on...can be tricky to keep the show going sometimes. I thought it was great though, lots of good stuff and perhaps Tony relaxed and was able to talk more when he wasn't actually playing poker.
Posted by NChanning

Cheers Neil. 

By his own admission, Tony couldn't multi-task- so it worked well that he bowed out the first challenge early giving us the chance to talk football with him.

He hadn't played poker for about 8 years, which makes it all the more amusing that he ended up beating Ian overall.

I think you might need to give a rousing pep talk to your fellow pros. It's getting embarrassing... :-)