Keys and Gray
Right, very simply, one or both of those shitbags should be sacked, not just suspended. Gray might just get away with it, as everyone knows he's a piece of work and his job is just to comment rather than hold sway, and also, frankly, because what he said wasn't as bad; but Keys, really, this should be the end of the road for. How can he be accepted as a host and a figure of authority now?
It's all very well making a crack about women not knowing the offside rule, which is just a dumb joke alongside "women drivers", but there's a seriousness and nastiness to what he was saying, a genuine bigotry.
He seems to sincerely believe a woman is not up to the job of running the line - whereas there is literally nothing about being an assistant referee which a woman cannot do as well as a man. There are arguments to be had in other areas. Will attitudes prevent a woman from controlling a game fully as a referee? Likewise, will attitudes and whatever the subtle changing room dynamic is prevent a woman from becoming a top-class manager of a men's team? These are difficult issues. Running the line isn't. You have to be a fully fledged fucking moron to think there's anything in a linesman's job a woman won't do as well as a man. According to the cuntish likes of Keys and Gray, the men who do the job every week are useless (another mindless attitude) and make ten mistakes a game, but you can be sure when a woman makes a mistake, it'll be because she's not up to it.
This incident has really reminded me how backward football is - for all the years i played, it would bring out the anti-gay or anti-woman prejudices in perfectly pleasant, respectable people i played with. "Dressing room banter" really is as lame as you imagine it might be, and when my team was refereed by a woman, it brought out all the Keysian sentiments you'd guess.
It really is a big issue and a sad thing - right to its boots, the manly world of professional football abhors effeminacy and women not being in their place. My beloved Sky Sports News's "middle-aged gent, pretty young girl" trademark combo looks more and more sinister ...
It's all very well making a crack about women not knowing the offside rule, which is just a dumb joke alongside "women drivers", but there's a seriousness and nastiness to what he was saying, a genuine bigotry.
He seems to sincerely believe a woman is not up to the job of running the line - whereas there is literally nothing about being an assistant referee which a woman cannot do as well as a man. There are arguments to be had in other areas. Will attitudes prevent a woman from controlling a game fully as a referee? Likewise, will attitudes and whatever the subtle changing room dynamic is prevent a woman from becoming a top-class manager of a men's team? These are difficult issues. Running the line isn't. You have to be a fully fledged fucking moron to think there's anything in a linesman's job a woman won't do as well as a man. According to the cuntish likes of Keys and Gray, the men who do the job every week are useless (another mindless attitude) and make ten mistakes a game, but you can be sure when a woman makes a mistake, it'll be because she's not up to it.
This incident has really reminded me how backward football is - for all the years i played, it would bring out the anti-gay or anti-woman prejudices in perfectly pleasant, respectable people i played with. "Dressing room banter" really is as lame as you imagine it might be, and when my team was refereed by a woman, it brought out all the Keysian sentiments you'd guess.
It really is a big issue and a sad thing - right to its boots, the manly world of professional football abhors effeminacy and women not being in their place. My beloved Sky Sports News's "middle-aged gent, pretty young girl" trademark combo looks more and more sinister ...
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