Claire Tomlinson

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Clare Tomlinson (b. 1968, Grantham, Lincolnshire) is a presenter for Sky Sports, and has worked there for more than ten years. She mainly presents Football First on a Saturday night from 8:25pm, with her guest panelist regularly being the ex Derby and Newcastle United star Warren Barton Sky Sports News as well as BSkyB's UEFA Champions League coverage.

In the early 1990s, Tomlinson worked at the Football Association as a media officer. Later in the decade, she was appointed as head of the communications department at Arsenal Football Club, where she helped the then new manager Arsène Wenger deal with the media [1].

Tomlinson hit the tabloid newspaper headlines in 2000, when she was exposed as having an affair with the then-Middlesbrough manager and ex-Manchester United and England captain, Bryan Robson while recovering froma broken ankle. On being discovered she tried to hide under Robson's bed, only for Robson's wife to see the crutch and then starting to beat both of them. . Tomlinson was then reported to have been banned by Sky from presenting a match involving a team managed by Robson.

Additionally she is a Tottenham Hotspur fan.


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