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Daily Mirror
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Tom Victor

Soccer AM hosts make light of Sky Sports axe with on-air "elephant in the room" joke

Soccer AM presenters Jimmy Bullard and John 'Fenners' Fendley made light of the show's impending end in the first episode broadcast since reports emerged about Sky's plans to cancel the show.

The weekend talk show has been on air for nearly 30 years, but is due to come to a close at the end of the season. This means the latest episode was the first of just 10 due to air in the aftermath of the announcement, with the hosts said to be fuming.

Another show, Saturday Social, is due to take Soccer AM's place in the schedule when the longer-running show comes to an end, with a number of redundancies planned. As they went on air for their usual broadcast, though, Bullard and Fendley couldn't ignore the discussions which have been going on throughout the week.

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