[3] While working at TV-am he also commentated on football matches for ITV and cycling for Channel 4, including two Tours de France.

[citation needed] In January 2011, Keys left Sky Sports after making derogatory comments about female assistant referee Sian Massey.

Keys and Gray are the mainstays of the football coverage on BeIN Sports channels, which broadcasts all 380 Premier League games per season.

[10][11] From the age of four, Richard Keys had a passion for football, ever since his father took him to watch Coventry City play Swansea Town in the old Third Division.

[13] In November 2000, Keys was heard to make a racially motivated comment about footballer David Johnson while broadcasting live on a Sky test channel.

[17][18] In 2012, Keys and Andy Gray received the best sports programme prize for their talkSPORT show at the Sony Radio Academy Awards.

[20][21] Keys is a patron of the Willow Foundation, a charity for people with special needs, founded by the former Arsenal goalkeeper Bob Wilson in memory of his late daughter.