Rob McCaffrey

Robert McCaffrey is a British television presenter. He is most notable for presenting shows such as "Goals On Sunday" and "You're On Sky Sports". McCaffrey also replaced Jeff Stelling as presenter of "Soccer Special" (the midweek version of "Soccer Saturday") and enjoyed a spell presenting live Nationwide Conference matches.

After earlier education in Edinburgh [cite web | title=The Media Men no. 15 Rob McCaffrey| work=red-passion.com | url=http://www.red-passion.com/issue24/mediaman.htm| accessdate=June 19 | accessyear=2006 ] , McCaffrey earned a Bachelor's degree at the University of Liverpool and studied for a post-graduate degree in journalism at Lancashire Polytechnic.

After minor jobs at local radio stations in and around Nottingham, McCaffrey joined Radio Merseyside in 1986, becoming a news reporter. Two years later he graduated to the rank of News Producer at BBC Radio Shropshire but left to start a career in television in 1987.

Starting at Granada TV he presented and reported on local programmes, including North-West football show "Kick-Off". Colleagues there included Clive Tyldesley, Elton Welsby and Rob Palmer, now also at Sky Sports.

McCaffrey was nominated for a Royal Television Society award for a documentary he produced featuring John Barnes and an interview with Nelson Mandela. The programme was filmed in 1994 during Liverpool F.C.'s preseason tour to South Africa. [cite web | title=Barnes: Mandela is special| work=thefa.com | url=http://www.thefa.com/England/SeniorTeam/NewsAndFeatures/Postings/2003/05/49247.htm| accessdate=June 19 | accessyear=2006 ]

Before joining Sky Sports as host of "You're On Sky Sports", McCaffrey spent some time as a radio presenter at talkSPORT.

McCaffrey is managed by RAM Sports Management, Rodney Marsh's agency. McCaffrey actually hosted the phone-in show for which Marsh was sacked by Sky for "a tasteless remark". [cite web | title=Marsh sacked by Sky for tasteless remark | work=Owen Gibson, The Guardian | url=http://football.guardian.co.uk/print/0,3858,5112135-103,00.html| accessdate=June 19 | accessyear=2006 ]

McCaffrey is a lifelong Everton F.C. fan.

In June 2007 McCaffrey was signed up by Showtime Arabia to present their English Premiership coverage, which will begin at the start of the 2007/08 season, this led to McCaffrey leaving his role on "Goals on Sunday".

Trivia

McCaffrey trialled for the 2006 edition of Sky One's The Match programme, in which celebrities train for a football match against ex-professionals. He was disappointed to not be selected, due to a calf strain.

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* [http://www.imdb.com/name/nm1401035/ IMDB Profile]