Simon Thomas says following Jeff Stelling was ‘like replacing Fergie at United’

Sky Sports’ Soccer Saturday presenter Simon Thomas has likened him replacing Jeff Stelling to David Moyes following Sir Alex Ferguson at Manchester United.

Thomas took over from the hugely popular Stelling for the start of the 2023-24 season when the veteran broadcaster stepped away from fronting the Saturday afternoon results show after over 25 years in the chair.

Thomas, who took a break from presenting following the death of his wife in 2017, initially wanted to turn the job down, fearing he would have an “impossible job”, much like Moyes did at Old Trafford when he took over from the Scot in 2013.

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