Sky Sports presenter Richard Keys has penned an emotional social media post thanking medics for saving his life.
The football pundit took to Twitter to welcome the new year and share a photograph of himself in a bed at the Royal Brompton Hospital in London.
He told his 267,000 followers: ‘Emotional now & I’ll regret this tomorrow. Not a great year, mostly my fault – but this wasn’t. Thank you to everybody for saving my life & letting me see 2018. Let’s all have a happy & healthy New Year.’
The football pundit took to Twitter to welcome the new year and share a photograph of himself in a bed at the Royal Brompton Hospital in London
He wrote: ‘Emotional now & I’ll regret this tomorrow. Not a great year, mostly my fault – but this wasn’t. Thank you to everybody for saving my life & letting me see 2018. Let’s all have a happy & healthy New Year.’
The Royal Brompton and Harefield NHS Foundation trust is a specialist heart and lung centre.
Though Keys thanked doctors, it remains unclear when the picture of himself bedridden was taken.
After sharing the image, he urged his followers to tune in to beIN sports for updates.
Keys, who works for beIN SPORTS in Qatar, recently launched tirade against Newcastle boss Rafa Benitez.
The pundit, who previously admitted behaving in a ‘prehistoric way’ towards women, moved to the Middle East after leaving his job at Sky Sports in disgrace after making sexist remarks
Keys (pictured left in 2008 and right in 2011) presented Sky Sports’ coverage of Premier League football for 19 years, before resigning from his £500,000-a-year job in disgrace in 2011
In an online rant, he suggested the club’s Spanish boss is being given an easy ride and deserves more scrutiny.
Keys presented Sky Sports’ coverage of Premier League football for 19 years, before resigning from his £500,000-a-year job in disgrace in 2011.
He and co-presenter Andy Gray had made disparaging off-air remarks about female match official Sian Massey, claiming she did not know the offside law.
In another studio conversation, which was filmed but not transmitted, Keys asked pundit Jamie Redknapp about a former girlfriend. The presenter asked him: ‘Did you smash it?’ – slang for: ‘Did you have sex with her?’
At the time, Sky Sports insiders revealed that Keys and Gray had been dubbed the ‘Axis of Evil’ by colleagues because of their abrasive style.
Keys then presented a Saturday football show on TalkSport radio, before being lured to Qatar.
He is now the face of the BeIN sports channels and has a lucrative £420,000 contract until the end of the World Cup in Qatar in 2022.