Micah Richards left speechless as he catches brutal stray from Kate Scott live on TV
It’s not often that Micah Richards is speechless, but Kate Scott achieved exactly that. The former Manchester City defender was in his usual spot on a Champions League night, in the CBS studio. Richards was looking forward to his introCBS But it didn’t turn out how he’d hopedCBS Alongside his fellow pundits Thierry Henry and Jamie Carragher, the duo got an almighty introduction, and Richards thought he was next. “Welcome everybody to our London studio, I’m Kate Scott and in my 15 years in the business of ‘just reading the prompter’ there’s a few things I’ve learned about football you know,” she began. “One is that it takes more than just speed, grit and power to be successful, you need intelligence too and that leads me to my teammates that cover all these bases.” Turning to her colleagues, Scott continued: “One of the fastest players the game’s ever seen he is the OG speed, Arsenal and French team legend Thierry Henry. “In the middle a man with so much grit as a player that he was willing to anger some of the biggest names in the game, he’s brought those skills to his broadcasting career as well, Liverpool’s own Jamie Carragher.” Then Richards got all excited for his turn, without anticipating a heel-turn from the host. “Finally, you haven’t seen power until you’ve seen Micah power through one of his Champions League night dinner orders, big for a reason – big Meeks.” The 13-time England international was frozen in shock, and thankfully woke up later in the broadcast. His co-hosts laughed a long, and Carragher in particular would have been relieved it wasn’t him under pressure for once. The former Anfield favourite has already been in trouble with Scott for joking about her husband Malik. Carragher was happy the heat wasn’t on him for onceCBS And this week’s been a torrid one, which ended with a grovelling explanation last night. Having called the Africa Cup of Nations ‘not a major competition’ on Sky at the weekend, Carragher used CBS’ return to explain himself. “What I would say is you know me better than anyone on this show and I’ve got very strong opinions on the game, I love debate and that will never change,” he said at the start of Tuesday’s broadcast. “But what I never want to be described as as a pundit would be ignorant or disrespectful, so that was never my aim, whether that’s to a club, a player, a country, a continent, an international tournament, whatever that may be. “What I would say is, where I got it wrong was I was clumsy with my language, in describing AFCON as not a major tournament. “I was trying to explain the merits of Mo Salah winning the Ballon d’Or and I felt, or feel, that not just AFCON, but the Asia Games or Gold Cup, not so much the Copa America, but there are five more competitions out there besides the World Cup that are for their continent a major tournament. “Some of them don’t resonate with people who vote for the Ballon d’Or and that was not an opinion, that was a fact in terms of looking at who won the Ballon d’Or over the last 40 or 50 years.” He added: “Yes I’ve been banging the drum for Salah to be the first African player to win the Ballon d’Or since George Weah in the 90s and I should’ve been a lot tidier with my language around that so yes that’s something I’ll look at. “But you look at the Euros, where it’s at right now and the competitions and some of them resonate with the Ballon d’Or voters whether that be journalists, managers, national captains. “One of the reasons might be because, let’s not forget, the Ballon d’Or was the European footballer of the year, so maybe there is a bias towards the Euros or European football. “It definitely is not my aim to offend people, I know I’ve done that in the past in different guises about different players or teams, but that was certainly not the case, and hopefully now that’s addressed it.”
It’s not often that Micah Richards is speechless, but Kate Scott achieved exactly that.
The former Manchester City defender was in his usual spot on a Champions League night, in the CBS studio.
Alongside his fellow pundits Thierry Henry and Jamie Carragher, the duo got an almighty introduction, and Richards thought he was next.
“Welcome everybody to our London studio, I’m Kate Scott and in my 15 years in the business of ‘just reading the prompter’ there’s a few things I’ve learned about football you know,” she began.
“One is that it takes more than just speed, grit and power to be successful, you need intelligence too and that leads me to my teammates that cover all these bases.”
Turning to her colleagues, Scott continued: “One of the fastest players the game’s ever seen he is the OG speed, Arsenal and French team legend Thierry Henry.
“In the middle a man with so much grit as a player that he was willing to anger some of the biggest names in the game, he’s brought those skills to his broadcasting career as well, Liverpool’s own Jamie Carragher.”
Then Richards got all excited for his turn, without anticipating a heel-turn from the host.
“Finally, you haven’t seen power until you’ve seen Micah power through one of his Champions League night dinner orders, big for a reason – big Meeks.”
The 13-time England international was frozen in shock, and thankfully woke up later in the broadcast.
His co-hosts laughed a long, and Carragher in particular would have been relieved it wasn’t him under pressure for once.
The former Anfield favourite has already been in trouble with Scott for joking about her husband Malik.
And this week’s been a torrid one, which ended with a grovelling explanation last night.
Having called the Africa Cup of Nations ‘not a major competition’ on Sky at the weekend, Carragher used CBS’ return to explain himself.
“What I would say is you know me better than anyone on this show and I’ve got very strong opinions on the game, I love debate and that will never change,” he said at the start of Tuesday’s broadcast.
“But what I never want to be described as as a pundit would be ignorant or disrespectful, so that was never my aim, whether that’s to a club, a player, a country, a continent, an international tournament, whatever that may be.
“What I would say is, where I got it wrong was I was clumsy with my language, in describing AFCON as not a major tournament.
“I was trying to explain the merits of Mo Salah winning the Ballon d’Or and I felt, or feel, that not just AFCON, but the Asia Games or Gold Cup, not so much the Copa America, but there are five more competitions out there besides the World Cup that are for their continent a major tournament.
“Some of them don’t resonate with people who vote for the Ballon d’Or and that was not an opinion, that was a fact in terms of looking at who won the Ballon d’Or over the last 40 or 50 years.”
He added: “Yes I’ve been banging the drum for Salah to be the first African player to win the Ballon d’Or since George Weah in the 90s and I should’ve been a lot tidier with my language around that so yes that’s something I’ll look at.
“But you look at the Euros, where it’s at right now and the competitions and some of them resonate with the Ballon d’Or voters whether that be journalists, managers, national captains.
“One of the reasons might be because, let’s not forget, the Ballon d’Or was the European footballer of the year, so maybe there is a bias towards the Euros or European football.
“It definitely is not my aim to offend people, I know I’ve done that in the past in different guises about different players or teams, but that was certainly not the case, and hopefully now that’s addressed it.”
