Everything about Chris Kamara totally explained
Chris Kamara (born
25 December 1957 in
Middlesbrough, his father though being from
Sierra Leone) is a former professional footballer in
England. He retired from playing in
1995 but since he last managed a club in
1998 he's best known for his work at
Sky Sports as a football analyst.
Playing career
After serving with the British
Royal Navy, Kamara joined
Portsmouth in 1975, beginning a professional footballing career that saw him move between 9 clubs, scoring 71 goals in 641 league appearances.
After acquiring a reputation as a hard man as a player, this continued into his forays as a manager, resulting with him being censured for his conduct. Kamara spent short spells as manager of
Stoke City and
Bradford City, nearly relegating the former and the latter being the club he ended his playing career with. He steered
the Bantams to promotion in the
1995-96 season through the play-offs, and is very highly thought of at
Valley Parade.
Chris currently lives in the semi-rural West Yorkshire village of
Kirkhamgate. He is a great friend of Middlesbrough chairman
Steve Gibson who he grew up with on Middlesbrough's
Park End council estate.
Career as commentator and presenter
Kamara presents Sky Sports'
Goals On Sunday show and provides additional commentary on some of Sky's televised matches. Perhaps he's most renowned for the
Soccer Saturday programme, where he usually appears over live video link providing brief updates on the match he's watching. He also guests on Soccer AM where he brings live link ups hours before games from various stadia and inevitably gives away both teams' line ups and tactics. He is often known to get overexcited and exclaim "Unbelievable, Jeff!" to host
Jeff Stelling, a phrase which has become his trademark
catchphrase.
On
April 12007, as an
April Fools joke, Kamara announced that his time as presenter of Goals on Sunday had come to an end, and that he'd signed a contract to become first-team manager at Bradford City - while not earning as much money as he did with Sky, he claimed that he was doing it for the love, not the money.
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