Kelly Cates on football, family, and forging her own path
White Wine Question Time
Stak
4.6 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 21 March 2025
⏱️ 64 minutes
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Summary
Joining us today is one of the most respected and knowledgeable broadcasters in football, a woman who has been a standout voice in the game for nearly three decades. It's the wonderful Kelly Cates!
In this episode, she takes us through her remarkable career journey — reflecting on her early days at Sky Sports, the lessons she learned from stepping away from the industry in her 30s, and why returning to top-flight football coverage in her 40s felt like the right move. She also shares her excitement — and nerves! — about taking on her biggest role yet as part of the new Match of the Day presenting team, what it means to her, and how she’s preparing for the challenge. Beyond the pitch, she also dives into family life and opens up about juggling a high-profile career with single motherhood and the realities of raising teenage daughters. Gosh, she's busy!
Hear more from Kelly on her podcast Not Just Football, available wherever you get your podcasts, and don’t miss her debut on Match of the Day next season alongside Gabby Logan and Mark Chapman.
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| 0:00.0 | Coming up on this episode of White Wine Question Time. |
| 0:09.4 | Oh my God, and I'm not good at secrets. |
| 0:12.5 | It killed me. |
| 0:13.7 | I genuinely, once the news was announced, I genuinely, I could have slept for about two days. |
| 0:20.7 | I found the stress of keeping the secret |
| 0:22.3 | really hard. And even though it's a nice secret, it's kind of, it was a little bit like, |
| 0:27.3 | you know, the early stages of pregnancy where you feel terrible, but you can't tell anybody. |
| 0:32.1 | And you're like, but then every now and again, there's, that you get that little feeling we go, I've got a really lovely secret and I can't tell anybody and it was awful. I'd gone into the office and was like, no, |
| 0:42.2 | like this is, I get that this comes from the outside, but don't do that to us from from the inside. |
| 0:48.0 | Don't start undermining us from inside the organisation because we can take it from other people. |
| 0:55.2 | We're used to that. |
| 0:56.0 | We know what that is. |
| 0:57.5 | But we kind of thought you had our back here. |
| 0:59.6 | So, you know, that's the way it should be. |
| 1:02.8 | Did you go in and say that? |
| 1:04.1 | Yeah. |
| 1:04.6 | Good for you. |
| 1:05.8 | I remember sitting in tears at the table one day because I'd forgotten a birthday party |
| 1:09.7 | and I was sitting and I was like, how has this just gone for I genuinely thought this could be early onset dementia |
| 1:16.2 | this could this this is what this could be and then I sort of cracked on with the HRT and it's |
| 1:22.8 | it kind of seems to have settled a little bit it was over the course of two or three days |
| 1:29.6 | driving into work on the journey |
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