Soccer AM making huge return - but not as we know it

Soccer AM is making a huge return - but not in its original form. The hit show was a staple on Sky Sports and aired from August 1994 for nearly two decades until it ended in May 2023.

It has now been announced that Tim Lovejoy and the original Soccer AM crew will be back together - and the new show will kick off from Saturday 9 August. The new show will be called Soccer Amen and will be a twice-weekly offering.

Joining Tim will be Robbie Knox, Tubes and Sheephead for the special podcast, which will be recorded at Tower Bridge Studios and released on both YouTube and all other major podcast platforms. It comes after two sports broadcasters claimed: ‘We’ve holidayed with Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce – she showed her true colours with us'.

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Speaking about the new show - which blurs the lines between a podcast and a TV show - Tim said: "We’re not here to break down formations. This is about the world football fans actually live in, the songs, the shirts, the matchday experience, and the big moments. We’re here to celebrate the world that lives around football. The stuff we actually talk about in pubs and WhatsApp groups.

"When we first started this project we wanted to make a show on TV, but realised it would not get commissioned. So we decided to make it ourselves. The landscape’s changed so much in recent years, and we can now broadcast our own show. This is new TV."

The new series will be aired twice weekly and there will a mix of football chat, hilarious features, celebrity guests, interactive fan contributions, head to head quizzes and much more.

Back in March, Soccer AM stars Tim Lovejoyand Helen Chamberlain discussed bringing the show back one day. He said he would "100 per cent" want it back and added: "I'd want to do it at a different time slot, night or something? Make it into a celebration.."

Helen added: "We'd have to do the same items. It would be like a band getting back together and not doing their top-10 hits wouldn't it? You can't do new material, people wouldn't like it."

Tim first appeared on Soccer AM on Saturday, August 17, 1996 and he stayed there until 2007. As well as his new podcast/TV show, Tim has appeared on Something for the Weekend on the BBC and Sunday Brunchon Channel 4.

The show was known for a number of segments including one controversial one called Soccerette, which saw him interview a young female fan wearing the football shirt of the club they supported, and asked whether or not they were single.

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