B osses at the EFL are unhappy with the broadcaster's decision to hire Murray and have written to clubs telling them that it did not endorse the move. Murray 40 will replace Lynsey Hipgrave and George Riley, who were informed by Channel 5 that break clauses in their contracts were being activated. The decision paved the way for Channel 5 to rehire Murray, who was the host of its Thursday night Europa League coverage between and The EFL was not consulted over the switch or the decision to hire Murray, which has angered its bosses.
The organisation was happy with the popular pairing of Hipgrave and Riley, who presented Football on 5 last season. The EFL only discovered they wouldn't be returning for the new season on the same day as the hosts. Receive today's headlines directly to your inbox every morning and evening, with our free daily newsletter.
Enter email address This field is required Sign Up. On Monday, Channel 5 Sport posted a video on Twitter to tease its "new signing", with the caption: "Looking forward to the start of the new EFL season? The British tabloid printed erroneous reports about the Hillsborough disaster in Northern Irishman Murray is a lifelong Liverpool fan, and sees the merger as making his position untenable. The former Match of the Day 2 presenter is the second high-profile departure from the radio station in recent days.
Some are speculating that the former Liverpool striker's departure was no coincidence. Receive today's headlines directly to your inbox every morning and evening, with our free daily newsletter.
Enter email address This field is required Sign Up. The BBC dismissed rumours over Christmas it was set to replace Murray after just over two years in the post — but yesterday confirmed his departure. Ex-Liverpool star and regular Match of the Day pundit Alan Hansen told Murray on one occasion that he should leave the negative comments regarding players to the experts.
But furious football fans last night claimed Hansen — along with other regular ex-players on the show — should have been in the firing line ahead of Murray. A hyperactive child who was asked to leave school and left home at 16, he trained in Northern Ireland at the News Letter and spent a year on a fellowship at the Toronto Sun in Canada. He set up a Belfast music magazine, Blank, and organised gigs for an up-and-coming band called Snow Patrol.
His big break was as the presenter of a regional music show in Northern Ireland for Radio 1, although an early switch to TV on Channel 4's ill-fated breakfast show RI:SE proved short-lived.
After three years co-presenting with Bowman followed by the late-night solo show, the then Radio 1 controller Andy Parfitt persuaded him to stay on at the music station a year longer than he originally intended. I want to leave here when I am relevant," remembers Murray. It's like when you hear the word digital. Kids do not use the word digital.
They don't live in the digital era, that is their era — iPhones and computer games and tablets. As soon as you start using words like digital you are probably wrong for the youth market.
Murray's big passions are jazz music he has dreams of owning a jazz cafe , cars — he learned to drive four years ago — and darts, which he still presents for the BBC.
Plus, Channel 4's Countdown, on which he has appeared in dictionary corner twice. That's the only place I want to end up. I'm 36 now, give me four or five more years and come and get me, please.
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