Sky Sports anger after presenter Charlie Webster strips off for FHM photoshoot

By Charles Sale

PUBLISHED: 17:37 EST, 18 March 2013 | UPDATED: 07:49 EST, 19 March 2013

There is considerable annoyance among management and her fellow Sky Sports News presenters over Charlie Webster appearing scantily clad on the cover and inside lads’ magazine FHM.

The pictures of the glamorous Webster in her underwear has especially upset a number of her female colleagues, who feel such exposure can only damage their efforts to be taken seriously as broadcast journalists and become known for the quality of their work rather than their looks.

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Right Charlie: Sky Sports presenter Charlie Webster posed in a saucy photoshoot for FHM magazine

And Charlie will not have helped her career prospects either with her disparaging take on SSN’s biggest production of the year: ‘On transfer deadline day, if it’s quiet, we’ll mess about passing blank pieces of paper pretending they’re breaking news stories. Everyone does it. It can be hilarious.’

SSN top brass are also angered that Webster’s photo spread comes at a time when the station are giving more prominence to the achievements of women in sport.

Cover girl: But SSN top brass are angered by Webster’s photoshoot

Charlie Webster strips off for FHM photoshoot

Outrage: Charlie Webster provoked anger after her FHM photoshoot

Serious business: Presenters Hayley McQueen (left) and Natalie Sawyer (right)

Glamour girls: Webster's colleagues Kirsty Gallacher (above) and Charlotte Jackson (below) have also done photoshoots

Car trouble: Roberto Mancini was unable to make a quick getaway

Manager Roberto Mancini is the latest Manchester City figure to be hit by car problems that are proving as troublesome as the club’s Premier League title defence.

Mancini, leaving Goodison Park after the weekend defeat by Everton, found his car was not where he had left it behind the City team bus outside the main entrance.

Merseyside Police had moved the vehicle to a car park because it had been left on double  yellow lines. And by the time it had been retrieved Mancini, who shunned the media after the game in favour of a quick getaway, had been kicking his heels for around 45 minutes.

However, Mancini’s transport difficulties, which follow Mario Balotelli’s frequent driving mishaps in Manchester, do not compare with those of Carlos Tevez, who has been charged with driving while disqualified and without  insurance. The Argentina striker has been bailed to appear before magistrates on April 3.

The torturous process over the future of the Olympic Stadium is expected to be completed this week with West Ham finally agreeing their 99-year tenancy deal with Boris Johnson’s London Legacy Development Corporation, possibly to be announced on Friday.

Lawyers pouring over every fine detail in the near 100-page contract have led to the delay since West Ham were named preferred bidders last December. The deal also makes it likely that a construction programme needed to make the stadium fit for football by 2016 can accommodate Rugby World Cup games there in 2015. However, the England v Wales group game will definitely be at Twickenham.

The mantra of the Stuart Lancaster-led England rugby team is all about teamwork and group togetherness. So it’s surprising that some players travelled to Wales in cars rather than the team bus for the Six Nations decider.

It also won’t help team bonding that RFU sponsors BMW provide vehicles for just a handful of the team, including Chris Robshaw and Chris Ashton, rather than all of them. BMW say their deal is not specifically with the senior team, while the RFU say having cars in Cardiff allowed players to go direct to Worcester on Sunday to watch Harlequins take on Sale in the LV= Cup final.

Down and out: England lost the Six Nations decider to Wales in Cardiff

RFU didn’t get shirty

England rugby’s previous shirt suppliers Nike were so confident that the 2010 team would win their Grand Slam match against Ireland in Dublin that they produced an advert celebrating the success before the crushing 24-8 defeat.

The RFU claim current kit providers Canterbury produced no England Grand Slam T-shirts in advance of Saturday’s drubbing. But Wales captain Gethin Jenkins was wearing a ‘championship  winners’ shirt at the post-match press conference.

Bookmakers Paddy Power’s relentless publicity stunts at Cheltenham, including flying their ‘lucky pants’ inflatable over the track, have irritated racecourse management to the extent they want to discuss the company’s sponsorship of the November meeting if the ambush marketing continues.

Paddy Power said: ‘I know they’re upset. We have a great relationship, but being different is what we’re about. They’ll have to like it or lump it.’

Party piece: Paddy Power launched a giant pair of flying green y-fronts