Sky Sports DELETE controversial video of Thierry Henry after backlash from Man Utd fans

Sky Sports have be forced to DELETE a controversial video of Thierry Henry and his analysis after backlash from Man Utd fans.

The broadcaster removed a clip they posted onto social media, featuring Thierry Henry’s analysis on Monday Night Football, of Manchester United’s 4-1 Premier League defeat to Newcastle.

Henry had criticised young defender Leny Yoro for looking at the linesman during Newcastle’s third goal, impersonating the action, which some fans found unfair.

The clip was pulled from Sky’s Twitter account, though it remains on YouTube and Instagram. Others have quickly downloaded the clip and posted it back onto Twitter.

Sky Sports have now deleted this Thierry Henry clip. This sensationalism is cheap low hanging fruit & fans saw straight through it. Punditry on Sky has never been poorer than it is right now.

Embarrassing to try to bully & attack a 19 year old player. pic.twitter.com/z0SgdqTljM

— Adam (@AdamJoseph____) April 14, 2025

I find the deleting of it really strange. Stand by your pundit & product. This is what you ask of them, they do it, people react, what did they expect?

— Adam (@AdamJoseph____) April 14, 2025

WHAT HAPPENED IN THE VIDEO

Henry took issue with United centre-back Leny Yoro, 19, for seemingly looking to the linesman to check for offside with Harvey Barnes pouncing on Noussair Mazraoui’s slip to score his second goal of the game.

Henry said that he had “never seen that before”, and then impersonated Yoro’s glance to the official live in the Sky Sports studio.

Henry said: “Look at Yoro and what he is asking for. I don’t know why… I don’t know what he is looking at.

“You’re looking at the linesman trying to see if he is going to bail you out… on what I don’t know. I don’t know if he thought there was an offside, I don’t know if he thought that someone – I – we – I don’t know.

“We all know it’s a goal. What are you looking at? I actually don’t know. I’ve never seen that before. We all know it’s a goal.”

Since backlash from fans, Sky Sports have taken the decision to remove the video from their social channels.

But you can still see a still photo of Henry replicating Yoro’s glance on the Sky Sports Premier League Twitter page, captioned: “When you hear someone open a packet of crisps”.

When you hear someone open a packet of crisps 😂 pic.twitter.com/V8DwoENNZg

— Sky Sports Premier League (@SkySportsPL) April 14, 2025

HOW DID FANS REACT TO IT

As mentioned, Sky Sports DELETE a controversial video of Thierry Henry after backlash from Man Utd fans. This is what they said…

@Amad16FC: why’d you delete that tweet @SkySportsPL? Thierry Henry should stick to punditry and not make unnecessary comments about 19-year-old player! Good job to all the Manchester United fans who made them delete it.

@The_Forty_Four: I can’t agree with Thierry Henry here… It’s very normal for a defender to look over at the linesman when conceding a goal it’s almost instinctive… To say “I’ve never seen that before” is just flat out lying 😬

@dipsMUFC: Thierry Henry’s criticism of Leny Yoro is completely unwarranted. He’s a teenager learning his craft. This kind of “analysis” is just lazy and unhelpful. Carragher deleted his tweet mocking Yoro. Clowns, the lot of them. 🗑️

@UtdFaithfuls: Come on, Thierry. It’s a defender’s reflex to look at the linesman when a goal is conceded. Henry is a top analyst, but this is cringe.

@DavePutman_: This is bizarre analysis from Henry to say the least. Singling out Yoro for doing absolutely nothing out of the ordinary. Very odd.

@JakeWStephens91: Disgusting treatment of a young lad still learning his trade. People actually pay for this. Disgrace.

@AlternativeMUFC: When somebody tells you that they pay £35 a month for this football ‘coverage’.

@carl_warbs: It wasn’t analysis. It was bullying a 19 year old kid. Mimicking facial expressions. Henry should be ashamed of himself

@Jazzaflex1st: Slagging a young man off. Then you be the first to pretend to promote mens mental health. Shocking sports programme, need to do better folks.

@Northern_Rich: Players do this throughout the league all the time and yet they choose to single out a teenager because he plays for Man Utd

@iuditg: Bullying a teenager. Henry lost my respect.

@Davedibble1980: Someone with some sense, Henry playing to the cameras again, we need pundits who call it as it is not what the tv companies want them to say, football is over for me, we will never get it back to how it was.

@TwoFourFours: Can’t criticise a defender conceding 4 and being poor because he’s 19, BUT if 18 year old Myles Lewis Skelly does a celebration he gets a nationwide campaign run on him 🥴

@sportingminute: Ahaha you can tell how far Man United have fallen as a club because their fans now spend all day crying on social media about the stuff that doesn’t matter. This lad was celebrating Yoro shoving Schar over as some sort of victory, and now crying over him getting bullied. 😭

@gary302: Thierry Henry desperate to take the piss out of a young and inexperienced Manchester United player has made a bit of a cunt of himself hasn’t he?

@NoelLeighton29: Making a mistake, any level, any age, it should always be acceptable to call that mistake out. If you can’t handle it, you’re not made for success. The world now makes it uncomfortable to criticise, and all that does is create weak minded individuals set for long term failure.

@JFrizz92: Crazy when Carragher always goes ‘that’s a meme’ it’s like they’re on a bonus for viral content it’s cringey as fuck. They would never do this for any other club.

HAVE YOUR SAY

What do you make of the punditry on Sky Sports? Was this poor from Thierry Henry? Let us know your thoughts in the comments or tweet us @fan_banter

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— Fan Banter (@fan_banter) April 15, 2025