Geoff Shreeves (born October 1964
) is a reporter on
Sky Sports
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. He joined the channel in 1992, the first season of
The Premier League.
Career
Shreeves went to
Verulam School in
St Albans
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. His media career began in the United States in 1990, when
Mick Luckhurst, a former
National Football League
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player for the
Atlanta Falcons, required a researcher for his role as presenter on
TNT
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for the
1990 FIFA World Cup
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. He began working for
Sky Sports
Sky Sports is a group of British subscription sports channels operated by the satellite pay television company Sky Group (a division of Comcast), and is the dominant subscription television sports brand in the United Kingdom and Ireland. It h ...
at the
beginning of their coverage of the newly formed Premier League
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.
He made his reporting debut in 1999 alongside
Clare Tomlinson
Clare Louise Tomlinson (born 6 September 1968) is a presenter for the British satellite broadcast sports network Sky Sports. She was born in Grantham, Lincolnshire.
Early life
Tomlinson was born at Barrowby in 1968. She was educated at the Kes ...
, and now reports on the touch-line in
Premier League
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matches on Sky Sports. He also reports for Fox Sports before Champions League games, and was a regular presenter for ''The Debate'' on
Sky Sports
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before the show was discontinued in 2020.
He appears in the
FIFA video game franchise, providing injury updates during played matches. Shreeves produced ''Football Godfathers'' for the
Sky History
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It is a joint venture between A&E Networks UK and Sky ...
channel where he interviewed
Sven-Göran Eriksson
Sven-Göran Eriksson (; born 5 February 1948) is a Swedish football manager and former player.
After an unassuming playing career as a right-back, Eriksson went on to experience major success in club management between 1977 and 2001, winning ...
,
Louis Van Gaal
Aloysius Paulus Maria "Louis" van Gaal (; born 8 August 1951) is a Dutch former football player and manager. At club level, he served as manager of Ajax, Barcelona, AZ Alkmaar, Bayern Munich and Manchester United, as well as having three spel ...
,
Roy Hodgson
Roy Hodgson (born 9 August 1947) is a former English football manager and player.
He managed 22 different teams in eight countries, beginning in Sweden with Halmstads BK in the 1976 season. He later guided the Switzerland national team to ...
,
Claudio Ranieri and
Gerard Houllier
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.
References
Living people
British association football commentators
Place of birth missing (living people)
21st-century British journalists
1964 births
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