As you may or may not know, as of last weekend this website is no longer under the Sky banner, ending eight years under the ownership of British sport's most ubiquitous corporation. Therefore, we are now free to lift the lid on being part of such a behemoth, to tell you about being indirectly employed by Rupert Murdoch and for a time technically colleagues of Richard Keys and Tim Lovejoy, and to spill the beans on exactly what life under the yoke of this corporate giant was like.
It wasn't too bad, actually.
After Sky bought 365 Media Group in 2007, they largely left Football365 alone (aside from when some irresponsible writer got them sued a couple of times...), which obviously had its up sides and down sides; on the one hand we were last in the queue for things like technical upgrades and site designing, but on the other we could basically say what we wanted. Aside from a couple of ill-advised and not terribly nice comments about some Sky Sports News presenters (again, by some irresponsible writer...wonder why they didn't fire that guy...) and generally being discouraged from bigging up the competition too much, we weren't really placed under the sort of editorial restrictions that you might expect from a company like Sky.
Geography probably played a part, as the F365 HQ is in Leeds and head office is a sprawling complex in Osterley, near Heathrow, but even when the hicks from the northern sticks travelled down to London, it was fine. The canteen is excellent (a canteen in which, as an aside, Lovejoy once apparently pushed to the front of the queue requesting that those waiting should 'make way for the talent'), there are loads of comfy chairs and you occasionally see Jeff Stelling wandering the halls. He is, as many famous people are in the flesh, shorter than you think.
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