Sky Sports presenter leaving after 43 years on TV as he gives ‘final goodbye’ in emotional statement

LEGENDARY Sky Sports presenter Nick Powell is rolling credits connected a glittering 43-year broadcasting career.

Powell, 65, spent 29 years with Sky and volition beryllium retiring aboriginal this week connected his 66th birthday.

The fashionable broadcaster has covered immoderate of the top sporting events, specified arsenic England's Ashes triumph successful 2005, London 2012 and Andy Murray's Wimbledon triumph successful 2013.

The writer issued a agelong farewell connection connected Sky Sports' website wherever helium besides looked backmost astatine unforgettable interviews with the likes of Sir Alex Ferguson, Muhammad Ali and Princess Anne.

Powell wrote: "And determination you person my occupation successful a nutshell: vacation irrelevant; knowledge, authorization and speedy reactions essential.

"I person built each that up implicit 43 years of unrecorded broadcasting, bully and bad.

"The bully - being determination for England men's archetypal Ashes triumph successful 20 years astatine The Oval successful 2005, Super Saturday astatine the 2012 London Olympics and Andy Murray's 2013 Wimbledon triumph.

"The atrocious - the Bradford fire, the Hillsborough catastrophe and the premature nonaccomplishment of sportspeople similar Gary Speed.

"And the surreal - interviewing Archbishop Desmond Tutu and covering a Bruce Springsteen performance connected the aforesaid day for Yorkshire Television, oregon explaining The Hundred to viewers of Sky Germany. In German."

Powell looks backmost astatine his vocation precise fondly without regretting adjacent the hardest times that saw him moving nether hard circumstances.

But determination were besides immoderate precise pleasant experiences on the way, specified arsenic erstwhile helium covered Liverpool's archetypal ever Premier League triumph successful 2020.

Powell wrote: "And present it's a last goodbye.

"Favourite moment? So many, but arsenic a calved and bred Liverpool fan, it's hard to bushed being connected aerial for their archetypal league rubric successful 30 years.

"As it turned out, betwixt the last whistle going connected Manchester City's decision astatine Chelsea, which meant Liverpool could not beryllium caught, and the commencement of a peculiar programme fronted by David Jones to people Liverpool's triumph, I had precisely 12 seconds.

"But that's unrecorded tv for you."