Sky Sports apologise for Terry Venables homophobic 'joke'

Sky Sports were forced to apologise after former England manager Terry Venables appeared to make a homophobic 'joke' while on air at the weekend.

The 71-year-old, who was a guest on Sky's Goals on Sunday show, told a story about how he and then-Nottingham Forest manager Brian Clough held hands while walking out onto the Wembley pitch in the 1991 FA Cup final.

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He said: "As I come out he grips my right hand with his left hand and I'm clamped, I'm clamped."

Venables said that the two looked like a "pair of woofers", which prompted presenter Ben Shephard, who was co-hosting with Chris Kamara, to apologise for any offence caused.