Soccer Saturday

Gillette Soccer Saturday is a weekly television programme broadcast on Sky Sports in the United Kingdom and Ireland during the football season. The programme updates viewers on the progress of association football games in the United Kingdom on Saturday afternoons. The current host is Jeff Stelling. The programme is sponsored by Gillette.

History
Soccer Saturday grew out of Sports Saturday, which started in 1992 hosted by Paul Dempsey. Current host Jeff Stelling joined the programme in 1994 and became its sole presenter a year later. The name of the programme changed to Soccer Saturday in 1998.

Prior to May 2010, portions of the programme were simulcast on Sky Sports 1 as well as Sky Sports News. The portions simulcast were between 12:00–12:30 pm and 3:00 pm–5:15 pm, although this differed depending on the matches being covered on Sky Sports 1. From the start of the 2010–11 season these simulcasts were dropped and for the next three seasons the programme was exclusive to Sky Sports News but this Sky Sports 1 simulcast returned for the 2013–14 season as part of Sky Sports 1's new all-day Saturday football service. For the 2014-15 season the programme moved from Sky Sports 1 to Sky Sports 5.

Presenters and reporters

 * Presenter: Jeff Stelling
 * Studio analysts: Matt Le Tissier, Paul Merson, Phil Thompson, Charlie Nicholas.
 * Match reporters: Tony Cottee (sometimes studio analyst), David Craig, Dickie Davies, Iain Dowie, Chris Kamara, Bryn Law, Alan McInally (sometimes studio analyst), Matt Murray, Rob Palmer, Johnny Phillips, John Salako, Neil Mellor, Peter Smith, Peter Stevenson, Paul Walsh, Kevin Watson and Bianca Westwood among others.

Rodney Marsh was a regular pundit, known for his outspoken views, until being sacked by Sky Sports in early 2005 after a poor taste joke referencing the 2004 Indian Ocean Tsunami. The late George Best was also a regular until leaving in 2004 to fight alcohol problems. Other former studio analysts include Frank McLintock, Alan Brazil, Clive Allen and Gordon McQueen.