Jeff Stelling claims that GB News offered him a job just minutes after he announced he was parting ways with Sky Sports Soccer Saturday . The 69-year-old kicked off his broadcasting career as a reporter for Middlesbrough FC on Radio Tees in the late 1970s, before moving on to LBC Radio's Sportswatch programme in the early '80s. After stints with BBC Radio 2, TV-am, Channel 4 , Eurosport and British Satellite Broadcasting, he made his way to Sky in 1992 to present horse and greyhound racing,