Soccer AM's All-Sports Show

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Soccer AM's All Sports Show is a television programme that is a spin-off of Sky Sports' popular Saturday-morning show Soccer AM, launched in 2002. It is currently shown on every Friday during the football season from 6-7:00 p.m. on Sky Sports 1, with repeats shown regularly throughout the night. It is currently hosted by Helen Chamberlain and Andy Goldstein. From 2002 until 2004 Tim Lovejoy presented the show alongside Chamberlain.

Format

Unlike its sister programme, The All Sports show focuses on a wider range of sports. This means that as well as football, sports like cricket, rugby (both Union and League) and even "American sports" like American football and basketball are covered on the show.

Features

"Striptease"- Sports attire, modelled by Tayla, is shown from various different angles, mostly close-up on parts of the kit. This section on the show is usually shown just before the first commercial break, with the answer revealed once the break is over, along with a sports star who wears it, but "it looks far better on the lass."

"Football Elite"- This section focuses on some of the major football headlines and stories from newspapers throughout the world.

"Spanish commentary"- Highlights from the matches in the last week involving Barcelona and Real Madrid "as our friends in Spain saw it." The "Spanish" commentator is, in fact, crew member Sheephead, who uses a mixture of very basic Spanish and English. Common quotes from this section include "Beep beep! Penalty!", "Gooooooooooaaaaaaalllllll!" while Barcelona's home ground, the Nou Camp, is often referred to as "Campy Nou Nou". Barcelona's highlights conclude with the commentator saying "for Frank Rijkaard", while Real Madrid's matches end with a "hickory dickory dock, Zidane."

"Plays of the week"- The top six or so "plays" from the past week. These plays may be fantastic goals from football, brilliant catches or run outs from the cricket, superb tries from the rugby, holes in one or delightful chip-ins from the golf, or sensational slam dunks from the NBA. This section is usually introduced by "those who nearly made it", some of the more disappointing plays from the past week.

"Sound"- A competition open to the public, i.e. the show's viewers, where they can win three All Sports Show golf balls, three All Sports Show dart flights, a All Sports Show posing pouch and, for a limited time only, an exclusive "Olympic Torch" by guessing correctly a short snippet which lasts only for a second or two. Goldstein often says that the viewers' calls "would be answered by their call centre in Mumbai where their calls would be answered in (Chamberlain: "11") minutes." The torch was discontinued after the 2006 Winter Olympics. If no-one guessed the sporting sound correctly, the following week the same sound will be used but it will be a rollover- 6 golf balls, 6 dart flights and two posing pouches.

"60 second darts challenge"- A major sportsperson has a go at trying to score as many points as possible with normal darts and a normal dartboard in a minute. The champion is golfer Ian Poulter who scored 663 points, beating darts pros such as Phil Taylor, Wayne Mardle, Colin Lloyd and Raymond van Barneveld. When England cricketer Matthew Hoggard had his turn, he threw all three of his darts at the same time. This technique, which has become known as "the Hoggard", has since been outlawed by the Professional Darts Corporation.

"Sport Hurts"- This section focuses on the more painful side of sport. It shows sportspeople being hurt by collisions or some other way. Sports regularly in this section include speedway, extreme sports and football. This section is presented by "McSport Hurts Man" who has a Scottish accent. He often says things you'd expect to see in a comic, like "WAMMO!", "OUCHY!!" and "BOSH!" before ending with a warning: "Remember kids, sport hurts, so go hard or go home."

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