I was driving into work and decided not to sign my Sky Sports contract – it’s the scariest decision I ever made

KELLY CATES has admitted quitting Sky Sports was the scariest determination she ever made.

The presenter worked for Sky Sports News successful the aboriginal noughties but discontinue her relation successful 2006.

A large crushed down her resignation was a tendency to settee down and person children, with Kates marrying a twelvemonth after.

She went connected to enactment for BBC Radio 5 Live and Channel 5 earlier returning to Sky Sports successful 2016.

Recalling the determination to quit, Kates told The Overlap: "I near Sky Sports News successful 2006, aft the Germany World Cup. I'd been determination for 8 years and I had conscionable turned 30, oregon I was conscionable turning 31. I was engaged but not yet married. I knew I wanted to person children rather soon astatine that point.

"It had conscionable been, for a agelong time, benignant of filtering distant and moving successful the backmost of my head. I came to the extremity of my declaration and was moving nether my caller declaration and wrong the abstraction of astir 3 days, made the decision.

"I was driving into enactment 1 day, I walked successful and I said, 'I don't privation to motion this caller contract, I privation to go!

"I had thing to spell to. I conscionable walked away, but I was truthful definite that I had to spell and marque that change. I did it erstwhile I near assemblage to spell to Sky, which is different, due to the fact that past you get thing that's truly exciting, shiny and new, dangled successful beforehand of you and you think, 'I'm going to instrumentality this jump.

"But that's the scariest 1 I did – wherever I conscionable went, 'that's it'. I conscionable made that decision."

Cates, 49, hosted EFL games for Sky Sports earlier being pushed up to the Premier League.

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She is simply a salient fig successful their coverage, peculiarly connected Friday Night Football and Saturday Night Football.

Cates said her determination to discontinue successful 2006 made her much assured arsenic she knew it was the close choice.

She continued: "It's erstwhile you aftermath up the next greeting and you inactive consciousness bully astir it.

"That's erstwhile you cognize you made the close decision, erstwhile it feels similar a value off, alternatively than a sinking feeling."