Richard Keys leaves fans amazed by naming Martin Tyler’s ‘favourite’ Prem club

Football fans of a particularly irritating disposition have a habit of imagining that the commentator hates their team, especially when it comes to Martin Tyler.

On Friday, Sky Sports announced that the legendary mic man would be leaving the company after 30 years, bringing the curtain down on one of the finest broadcasting careers in English football history.

Annoyingly, a few petulant sods on social media applauded his departure, insisting match days would be all the better without his supposedly biased commentary, though in truth their comments were a mere drop in the ocean amid relentless waves of praise and adulation crashing in Tyler's direction.

But are the accusation of partiality justified? The answer, to anyone with their head screwed on, is no, though good luck convincing Tottenham fans of that because Richard Keys has just revealed that Tyler's favourite Premier League team is Arsenal.

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Paying tribute to Tyler in his blog, Keys wrote: "He was brilliant. A true pro. He would always find the right words at the right time – [quoting Tyler's commentary for Tony Adam's title-clinching goal in 1998] ‘Bould – through to Adams (goal) that sums it all up’.

"What an Arsenal season that was. Arsenal – his favourites."

Tyler, 77, is actually a boyhood Woking fan, but clearly developed something of a soft spot for the Gunners, enough, at least, for former Sky Sports colleague Keys to notice.

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Continuing, Keys labelled Tyler "the greatest football commentator of all time" and praised his unabated hunger for the sport, a hunger that never seemed to cease.

"He never stopped – game after game after game. There was a time that we tried to stop him – for his own good – because he was doing too much. But we couldn’t. And no-one will now he’s stepping away from Sky.

"Martin will never stop commentating. I’d expect to see him to be behind a mic at his own funeral!"

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