Soccer AM: Final show memories from goalies, guitarists and guests

Tunes, apical bins and "unbelievable tekkers".

They're conscionable a fewer features from the past 29 years of Soccer AM, which blows the full-time whistle connected its Saturday greeting amusement this weekend.

Sky Sports' celebrated pre-match programme has seen it each - accomplishment schools, unrecorded euphony performances and the unusual controversy.

BBC Newsbeat has spoken to immoderate of the radical astatine the bosom of it astir the bequest it'll leave.

Someone who's saved penalties from Premier League stars - and been "nutmegged" by them excessively - is erstwhile Hashtag United and Soccer AM goalkeeper, Jacko.

"It's been a benignant of a imagination travel true," helium says.

"I've had many, galore a bully moment, benignant of pinch myself moments. For maine increasing up. It was a Saturday greeting staple."

Jacko says determination were a fewer standout moments for him, but redeeming a punishment from Man United prima Jesse Lingard sticks out.

"The nighttime earlier he'd been astatine the Emirates. moonwalking aft scoring," says Jacko.

"And the adjacent time he's missing a punishment connected Soccer AM."

Jacko besides thinks the amusement gave shot fans thing they didn't person entree to erstwhile it kicked disconnected successful the 90s.

"Football wasn't connected pat similar it is nowadays," helium says.

But Soccer AM delivered connected "football, manner and unrecorded music".

"I deliberation that's astir apt portion of the demise of the show, there's shot everyplace astatine the interaction of a button."

Jacko says the star-studded line-ups weren't the lone concealed to Soccer AM's occurrence - helium praises "a twelve unit down the scenes that are legends".

And it was them who Jacko felt for astir erstwhile the amusement was unexpectedly axed past month.

"They worked truthful hard connected the amusement and person evidently had the rug pulled connected them, but I don't deliberation anyone knew this bombshell was coming," helium says.

"They unrecorded and respire the amusement and they unrecorded and respire football. So I consciousness for them."

As good arsenic the light-hearted shot chat and interviews, the amusement made a conscious effort to showcase up-and-coming artists connected its playlists.

One of those unrecorded shows was by singer-songwriter Tom A Smith, who is playing astatine Radio 1's Big Weekend successful Dundee this week.

"I made my Soccer AM quality past October, with Miles Kane, and we played a opus together. It was a large day," helium says.

"I'd been a monolithic instrumentality of his enactment my full childhood, truthful to person the accidental to play alongside him connected Soccer AM arsenic good was great.

"Football and euphony unneurotic tin spell hand-in-hand and Soccer AM was a monolithic portion of that."

Tom says the amusement was "very inclusive" for caller acts and not galore TV shows connection the aforesaid platform.

He praises the amusement for not lone focusing connected "the biggest artists" but looking for "the adjacent generation, the adjacent wave".

"It's going to beryllium devastating to spot it go," helium says.

Amy Christophers appeared connected the amusement successful sketches with co-hosts Tubes and Rocket betwixt 2010 and 2014.

She's present a sports journalist, and "truly gutted" the amusement is ending arsenic it was her "dream job" to contiguous it 1 day.

"I deliberation astir my property grew up watching the amusement and it's the extremity of an epoch - Saturday mornings won't beryllium the aforesaid again," she says.

The amusement underwent an representation revamp successful the aboriginal 2010s to go little "lads' magazine" and entreaty to a modern-day audience.

But galore blasted the alteration for the show's gradual diminution successful popularity.

One of the astir arguable segments was "Soccerettes", wherever young women successful shot shirts would beryllium asked questions successful beforehand of an audience.

The archetypal was ever "how aged are you?", and the reply was usually met with cheers from antheral fans successful the audience.

Amy utilized to beryllium a glamour model, and says she was approached to beryllium a Soccerette.

While she didn't instrumentality up the offer, she didn't person a occupation with the diagnostic astatine the clip - though she doesn't deliberation it'd look bully connected the airwaves now.

"It had a spot backmost then," she says.

"But present it would look retired of spot - times person moved on."

One idiosyncratic who admits helium does sometimes miss the "edgy" broadside of the amusement is long-time instrumentality Alex Roder.

But he's kept watching contempt the changes, and appeared connected the amusement successful March.

He adjacent managed to people a "top bin" volley - landing a changeable successful a wheelie bin placed successful the apical country of the show's mini-arena goal.

"First it didn't rather registry that I've conscionable scored a bin connected Soccer AM," helium says.

"I ended up doing immoderate Alan Shearer celebration. The societal media effect was huge. My telephone did stroke up rather a bit."

Alex says seeing the show's acceptable and presenters successful idiosyncratic was "unbelievable" from commencement to finish.

"It's a unusual feeling but 1 I'll retrieve for a agelong while," helium says.

Alex says he'll besides person a fond memories of the show's "old-school era" with Tim and Helen.

But goalie Jacko thinks times person moved on.

"A batch of radical retrieve it successful the 90s, successful the 2000s, erstwhile we had a antithetic headspace and the drama was precise different," helium says.

"A batch of the things connected the show... there's nary mode you'd get distant with successful today's world.

"It's conscionable changed and things evolve."

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