Gabby Logan has revealed that she thought her TV career was over after being 'sidelined' by her former boss. The Welsh presenter is one of the BBC's t op talents, having recently being named as one of the three new Match of the Day hosts replacing Gary Lineker . Logan, who has around 30 years of experience, is also the face of the corporation's Six Nations coverage. Despite being one of the of the most respected figures in sports broadcasting, it hasn't been an easy ride for the 51-year-old. She was left wondering if she had a future in the industry and even considered a career change after her former ITV boss decided to 'demote' her during the 2006 FIFA World Cup. Logan had been lined up to present coverage of England's group stage games against Sweden and Trinidad & Tobago at the tournament in Germany, but a reshuffle saw her replaced in that role by Steve Rider, reports the Wales Online. Instead, she was relegated to front second-string matches, with that demotion already denting her confidence before she was dropped from the coverage and told "don't come back" after planning to go home for a few days during the tournament. Appearing on Kate Thornton's White Wine Question Time podcast, she explained: "I think I had a rough ride in my early thirties in my career, and I can't believe that's nearly 20 years ago. At the time, I thought it was going to be the end of my career. "When I was leaving ITV and given another chance by the BBC ... because even in my early 30s, I felt I'd already had this really long career and I'd done loads of great stuff. I'd been at Sky to start off with and went to ITV and did loads of brilliant things. "But I kind of felt I was maybe going to have to shift and do something completely different, because I had a boss that wasn't really into me and wanted to slightly demote me. He took me off a World Cup in 2006." Explaining what happened, Logan added: "My kids were a year old and I was flying off to Germany, leaving my babies behind, going to the World Cup. [But] in the middle of the World Cup, he kind of sidelined me, and I came home with my tail between my legs. "I was due to do so many knockout games and he said, ‘oh, just don't come back' basically. Go home and don't come back because I was due to go home for a few days. In between the end of the group stages and the knockout stages, there's always a couple of days off and I was going to go home because it was only Germany and the kids were a year old." The incident even led Logan to consider changing careers, as she explained: "I remember being at home - we were doing up a house at the time, so we were renting a house in Barnes. It was a lovely day, it was gorgeous and the river was looking beautiful and the sky was blue. "I just remember walking around the garden thinking 'Oh gosh, I love doing up houses, I'm just going to shift and go into property because that's what my mum does'. I was maybe 33 at the time and I thought maybe my law degree wasn't out of date and I could upgrade and go to bar school. I was really contemplating what to do next." However, Logan admitted the initial setback ultimately proved to be a blessing in disguise as she left ITV later that year to join the BBC, with her career flourishing from that point onwards. "I was given an opportunity to go to the BBC, where I really felt I had to start again in quite a lot of ways," she said. "It was like I was going to a new school, in terms of proving yourself to the teachers and the other kids. "When I look back now, how much more misogynistic the angles were to these articles and how always whatever I was wearing or looked like was talked about with regard to my performance. I was never it was never the same for a male colleague, they wouldn't talk about his suit. "There was a lot of that to deal with, and I think it definitely fortified me. Once I got that second chance, as I saw it at the time - somewhere that I'd always hoped I might work because of the BBC having the long history with doing the Olympics and various other things that I really wanted to work on - I felt really grateful, and also that I was going to not let this opportunity go."