Sky Sports legend Chris Kamara has returned to TV screens after more than two years away.The Soccer Saturday icon, who became renowned for his upbeat style and comic phrases during 24 years working on the show, was chosen by Amazon Prime Video to cover Nottingham Forest's match with Tottenham in the English Premier League - and joked that he thought he was being offered work as a delivery driver when he first got the call from the streaming giant.
Kamara has been off screens since revealing that he had after being diagnosed with apraxia of speech (AOS), a neurological disorder that impairs speech and thought processes in 2022.Kammy was welcomed back to broadcasting by veteran colleague Jeff Stelling, who spent a quarter of a century anchoring the Sky Sports results show.
Speaking to Stelling on Prime, Kamara said: "I have got the best game of the day. When Amazon rang me up I thought that they wanted me to deliver parcels.
But they said the game, and I said yes!"Stelling asked: "Hey Kammy I was going to ask how your health is, but you look like you’re in fantastic health," and he replied: "I’m great Jeff, to get that call and say I was doing this game was the biggest fill up ever."In 2023 Kamara told Talksport: "I woke up one morning and all of a sudden the connection between the brain and the voice went for some reason.