Andy Goldstein is a British television presenter and radio broadcaster currently working for Talksport. He has presented ''

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'' on Saturday mornings, replacing

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(having also previously taken over from him as co-host on ''

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'') in 2004. The All-Sports show ended in 2007. Goldstein is also a former presenter of

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s Home Nations

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tournaments. He previously presented Sky Sports coverage of

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, 9-Ball Pool (including the

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) and 10 pin bowling

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. As well as presenting, Goldstein has tried his hand at acting too. He appeared as the main character in a series of adverts for TalkTalk shown before '' Big Brother 5'' in 2004. Goldstein currently hosts ''Drive'', a radio show which runs on talkSPORT from Monday to Friday 4-7, along with ''The Sports Bar'' 10pm to 1am every Monday night. The show initially broadcast on Sunday nights before being broadcast Monday to Thursday. Following

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's departure from the station, it was increased to 4 nights per week. In 2006 , Goldstein presented

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's coverage of the

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. Goldstein took part in Andy Jacobs world record electric scooter land speed record as a pacemaker up to 78.4 mph then let Jacobs airflow to over 130 mph. At the time they were described as the Cool Runnings of the radio world as it was broadcast live. Goldstein erroneously reported that talkSPORT DJ and former Chelsea defender

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had died after he failed to turn up to present his weekend show in October 2008. This led to some Chelsea fans laying flowers at Stamford Bridge and sending in condolences to the radio station. Goldstein later said he was only joking. On 3 August, Goldstein accused a Twitter account belonging to Rio Ferdinand as being fake. Shortly after, Rio Ferdinand rang the show to prove himself, hence forcing Goldstein to apologise. In August 2016, Goldstein mistakenly contacted a parody Twitter account of footballer

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in an attempt to organise an interview with Cole himself. The account of Cole responded to his messages by quoting the lyrics to

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song Mr Brightside. He was also a childhood friend of

player

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and the pair worked together as presenter and pundit on

's snooker tournaments. He also worked on

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and is a

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supporter. Goldstein was also part of a viral talkSPORT video, involving the Danish wrestling family, the Herrings including Hannah and Schmeltz. He has had numerous engagements and tiffs with Klobby, Khalid and 100% Mo.

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'' daytime show on ITV2) *'' Fash's Football Challenge'' (alongside

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