taz
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Post by taz on Jan 25, 2011 16:59:09 GMT
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frakey
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Post by frakey on Jan 25, 2011 17:06:38 GMT
Agreed! Just need to get rid of Keys now - I've never been a fan.
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Post by os on Jan 25, 2011 17:08:29 GMT
Whats wrong with that
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Post by Del on Jan 25, 2011 17:25:03 GMT
I think its a shame.They will probably put some female in as a replacement who does know f..k all about the game!
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Post by exiledinandover on Jan 25, 2011 17:55:18 GMT
the linewoman knew the offside rule,only the second one i know of!.
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Post by fox on Jan 25, 2011 18:00:04 GMT
No hang on, the woman in question is a qualified ref and fast tracking aside would not be promoted if she was unable to do the job. There are thousands of referees up and down the land who foo up offside decisions day in day out - male and female. I disagree with the fast tracking, the only good ref is an experienced ref.
The comments may seem like a laugh to you and I down the pub but there are serious issues here - Andy Gray represents a multi-million pound organisation and they quite easily could face a fine from the FA for bringing the game into disrepute.
Plus the simple fact this guy is the one that explained to millions of viewers for several seasons that to be offside there had to be daylight - god damn cheek of him suggesting someone doesn't know the offside rule!!!!!
I'm with Taz on this one - woo and indeed hoo
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Post by Duke on Jan 25, 2011 18:04:47 GMT
i can't quite believe it!
Mr Gray has been around for years!
oh well sh*t happens!
you'd never get me making offensive comments! Ha! Ha!
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Post by exiledinandover on Jan 25, 2011 18:09:00 GMT
He needed to go,as they are saying on the 606 forum he's a dinosaur from the 70's.
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Post by holmes on Jan 25, 2011 18:10:39 GMT
No more gob sh##e or spending half an hour analyzing the blood obvious? Great . Sky Sports may almost be watchable now. Oh, and I agree with the point fox raised about him being a representative of Sky. We fans can blurt out as much rubbish as we like, but if you are voicing opinions on TV, you have to watch your mouth and keep in mind what your saying. The gender of the official in question is irrelevant, Gray questioned their ability to do the job and has got done for it. Not the first time he's done it, but the first time he didn't get away with it.
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Beaney
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Post by Beaney on Jan 25, 2011 18:37:32 GMT
I think it's his antics in the video above that confirmed his sacking.
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Post by wellie on Jan 25, 2011 18:45:15 GMT
On BBC News tonight they said he had been sacked from his 2 Million Pound a year job! 2 Million WTF?
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Post by Amber Aleman on Jan 25, 2011 23:39:45 GMT
I don't believe in any god, but I do believe that anyone who persistently behaves in an offensive manner will sooner or later get his (or her) come-uppance.
If Andy Gray's sexist comments had been limited to those during last Sunday's Wolves-Liverpool match then he might have got away with a brief suspension and a stern ticking-off. I'd have been content with that. But we now learn that he's got form for making comments of this sort at work (behaviour that would get many of us into trouble at our own workplaces). It seems there's a pattern, and it betrays an attitude that has no place in the 21st century.
Actually, I quite like Andy Gray. Yes, he can be annoying and opinionated - but he has got genuine screen presence, which is more than you can say of a lot of today's anodyne sports presenters. Still, I can't say I'm sorry to see him go.
Just an idea, but now that Sky are saving themselves his £2m a year pay packet, any chance of them reducing their subscription charges for hard-pressed non-League football clubs? (No, thought not.)
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tonyd
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Post by tonyd on Jan 26, 2011 9:12:45 GMT
The comments may seem like a laugh to you and I down the pub but there are serious issues here - Andy Gray represents a multi-million pound organisation and they quite easily could face a fine from the FA for bringing the game into disrepute. I don't think the FA's remit runs to organisations totally outside their control! I do think this has been blown up out of all proportion. The comments were crass but not intended for transmission and pale besides, for example, big Ron's racist comments that cost him his job. And what happens if they pick, say, Andy Townsend or Steve Claridge, as a replacement. I've never heard them make one comment that illuminated or added to the game.
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Post by manchesteru on Jan 26, 2011 9:18:10 GMT
1-0 to the God botherers ;-)
Personally I think anyone who is caught out making lewed and offensive comments at a co-worker (or anyone really) should be sacked, which is why Gray has gone.
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DaveF
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Post by DaveF on Jan 26, 2011 9:19:14 GMT
On the contrary, they were at work (even if not broadcasting) and the same rules/code of conduct applies as in any workplace.
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