Sky Sports make subtle tweak to coverage with equipment change and it’s for a brilliant reason
SKY SPORTS made a superb tweak to their coverage on Saturday afternoon.
Soccer Saturday saw presenter Simon Thomas go around the grounds to the various reporters at the Premier League matches.
And viewers were treated to a small change to the usual broadcast in a nod to Movember.
Movember is an annual event involving the growing of moustaches during the month of November to raise awareness of men’s health issues such as prostate cancer, testicular cancer, and men’s suicide.
Acknowledging the event, Sky Sports attached moustaches to their branded microphones.
It could be seen on ex-Everton and Liverpool forward Courtney Sweetman-Kirk’s mic at the Gtech Community Stadium.
And Sky Sports presenter Lynsey Hooper, who also had a moustache on her mic, took a moment to explain the reason behind it.
She said: “You may notice as well that we have new microphones today.
“I’ll get more chat from Courtney later but for now I just wanted to show these off because they are to celebrate the fundraising efforts of everyone involved with Movember this month, including our very own Simon Thomas.
“So we will have the microphones up to show those off.”
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Hooper and Sweetman-Kirk were reporting at Brentford’s clash with Leicester.
New Foxes manager Ruud van Nistelrooy was in the stands to watch his side on Saturday, but was not in charge for the match.
His first official game as Steve Cooper‘s successor comes on Tuesday at home to West Ham.
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