Andy Goldstein

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Andy Goldstein is a British TV presenter on Sky Sports.

of Soccer AM on Saturday mornings having also previously taken over from him as co-host on Soccer AM's All Sports Show in 2004. The All-Sports show ended in 2007. Goldstein also presents Sky Sports coverage of Betfred Premier League Snooker, 9-Ball Pool (including the Mosconi Cup) and 10 pin bowling Weber Cup.

As well as presenting, Goldstein has tried his hand at acting too. He appeared as the main character in a series of adverts for TalkTalk shown before Big Brother 5 in 2004.

Goldstein is also an accomplished pool and snooker player having beaten Steve Davis as part of a feature on the All Sports Show, supposedly taking Davis' roll of honour (including his MBE, OBE, six World Championships and his Mosconi Cup win) with victory. When introducing the following week's All Sports Show, the caption on the screen read 'Andy Goldstein OBE MBE'. He uses the nickname of 'Galeforce' and recently challenged badminton player Gail Emms to a showdown for the exclusive use of the nickname after claims by Emms that she was the first Galeforce.^[1]

Andy also Hosted the Joga Bonito Nike promotion launch in Trafalgar Square in London as well as the Nike Live Cesc Fabregas Show. Although he is an avid Manchester United fan, many guests (notably Ray Winstone) have questionned this allegiance as he was born and raised in the East London area. Originating from Leyton (postal code E10) his local team is actually Leyton Orient F.C of league one.

It was announced on June 9th 2008 that Andy had been axed from Soccer Am after just one season. This decsision was met with praise from some [1] and critisism from other fans of the show. [2]

[edit] Other appearances

• Jungle Drums (I'm a Celebrity, Get Me Out of Here! daytime show on ITV2)
• Fash's Football Challenge (alongside Caroline Flack on Bravo)
• UKTV's World Cup 2006 coverage.
• Fighting Talk (BBC Radio) on 24 January 2007 (finishing last with 31 points) and 14 April 2007 (joint third/last with 42 points)
• Can't Sing Singers (BBC1)
• Street-Cred Soduko (Dave)
• Win Your Own Home (UK Style)
• Totally Top Trumps (Challenge TV)
• Strangest Ever (Five)
• My Greatest Ever Singles Party (Five)
• Swag (Five)
• The Unofficial World Records of Sex (Sky One)
• FHM High Street Honeys (Sky One)
• Bikini Heaven (Sky One)
• Six Degrees (Sky One)
• Resistance (BBC Three)
• The Contenders (BBC Education)
• You're On Sky Sports (Sky Sports 1)

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