Broadcasting Career
Saggers began his broadcasting career at BBC Radio Cambridgeshire. He then joined BBC Radio Sport in 1989. and became a regular sporting voice on Radio 4's Today programme. He won a Sony Award for his reporting of the false start at the 1993 Grand National.
In 1992, Saggers left the BBC to join Sky News as senior sports correspondent. He was perhaps best known to international audiences as the voice of the English Premier League Football highlights show.
In 2001 Saggers returned to the BBC, presenting Sport on Five. He appears to have had a strained relationship with the station's opinionated football commentator Alan Green.
He has commentated for Test Match Special.
Saggers joined talkSPORT in June 2009. This followed the BBC declining to renew his contract and a reported bust up with Radio 5 Live Commentator Alan Green. He now presents the Weekend Breakfast with Micky Quinn every Saturday and Sunday and also presents Kick Off on Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday alongside Stan Collymore with regular input from journalists and ex-footballers.
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