8 series he presented are regularly shown on the free to air network. In 1992 he anchored Goal on Sky TV. This was a World Cup based football quiz featuring teams comprising Geoff Hurst, Martin O’Neil and Terry Yorath and in which Campbell posed questions on footage from previous tournaments. In 1993 he studio-anchored the Big Race, an ITV adventure show in which a team led by the former Blue Peter presenter Peter Duncan drove overland across Europe to Russia. Ending up in Siberia finally crossing the Bering Straits through Alaska and then on to New York months after starting out. Also in 1993 Campbell hosted Strictly Classified for Granada TV. This was a studio based magazine show centred around quirky stories from the classified ads in local newspapers. His co-hosts were Pauline Daniels and Jeff Green. In 1995 he made the ‘Nicky Campbell Show’ , a short-lived chat and entertainment programme for BBC Scotland and in 1996 was a presenter/reporter on Ride On, the Channel 4 motoring magazine. He made a film for the BBC2 documentary series Leviathan in 1998 entitled Braveheart, in which he looked at Edward I and William Wallace and explored the historical roots of Scottish antipathy, real or imagined, towards the English. In 1999 he was one of the presenters of the Rugby World Cup for ITV. Between 1990 and 2004 he presented Central Weekend (also called Central Weekend Live), the influential and controversial late night debate show on Friday night in the Central TV region. Known for the confrontational nature of its studio audience and provocative topics, Campbell was the main presenter but over the years co-presenters on the debate show included Anna Soubry, Adrian Mills, Sue Jay, Claudia Winkleman, Kaye Adams, John Stapleton, Roger Cook, Paul Ross and Shelia Ferguson. On one debate Campbell was attacked live on camera by an irate participant in a debate on Women's Football. Campbell had reprimanded him for using a misogynistic term, threatening him with the ‘red card’. The assailant, Robert Davey, went on the rampage in the studio, on live TV and was subsequently charged and given a 12-month prison sentence. London's ITV franchise Carlton Television and also Network ITV made versions of the programme, Carlton Live and Thursday Night Live, which were shown between 1996 and 2002. These were also hosted by Nicky Campbell. He presented one series with Richard Littlejohn and then all subsequent