Sky Sports Soccer Saturday Paul Merson at Adams Park

Last week, I was a guest of Hazlemere Window Company at the Paul Merson sportsmans dinner hosted by Wycombe Wanderers Football Club in the Vere Suite at Adams Park. To be honest I had expected his after dinner speech to be poor quality and boring – a totally wrong perception as it turned out.

I was pleasantly surprised by the former Arsenal Football Club and England International footballers attitude, honesty and entertaining delivery. It was not what one would call polished, but it was refreshingly real and straight talking. I can now see what Sky Sports News see in Paul Merson, and why they have him as a football summarizer on Sky Sports Soccer Saturday.

The former midfield star, who also played for Middlesborough, Aston Villa, Walsall and Tamworth (once!) Football Clubs, was blatantly honest about his drug addiction, alcohol abuse and gambling problems. If you are a football fan, but have not yet watched him ”in action” with the shows host Jeff Stelling (a Hartlepool fan), Phil Thompson, Charlie Nicholas and Matthew Le Tissier on a Saturday afternoon on Sky Sports News, you have missed out, they can be a riot, and very entertaining.