Keys' final commentary
I was tempted to suggest that, with Gray shown a red, Sky should throw away the keys. Now they don't have to. He's quit.
But still he doesn't get it. His suggestion that the success of Sky over the past 20 years had made him enemies within the media, and that it was unfair to lambast broadcasters for off-air comments.
"The clips you have seen are fairly selective," he says. I should hope so. God help us if they'd shown more.
Wednesday, January 26, 2011
Tuesday, January 25, 2011
No Gray area - he had to go
So, Andy Gray has got the boot for the Sky Sports sexism debacle. That’s made me a tenner (a safe bet at the time) – saved Sky execs a few bob in fees and will probably be worth a Ronaldo transfer fee in PR terms.
It was good fun while it lasted with the tabloids upping their game in the trawl for women reader with customary indignation. The Mirror’s Game of two halfwits was the pick of the day, although the Sun’s Get ‘em off (next to a picture of lineswoman Sian Massey dancing in something skimpy) was a bit of an own goal.
I’d been wondering when Andy Burton was going to get a kicking for his part.
Gray is a footballer so knows no better. Richard Keys would have got in on the “changing room crack” and gone native ages ago. But at least he had the nous to apologise.
But Burton had no excuse. As a professional broadcaster, he should have known better than to get caught like Rooney by an Accrington offside trap.
Also, the fun of these spats is the way everyone gets involved: from the dragging up of Ron Atkinson’s racism to Kenny Dalglish, whose daughter used to present for Sky, distancing himself by saying he hadn’t even noticed that the lino whose every decision every manager scrutinises every match was female.
The most hilarious element was the Independent’s Andy Townsend own goal.
As for Gray. Wish I’d upped the stakes on the tenner. Sorry, but what a pillock.
So, Andy Gray has got the boot for the Sky Sports sexism debacle. That’s made me a tenner (a safe bet at the time) – saved Sky execs a few bob in fees and will probably be worth a Ronaldo transfer fee in PR terms.
It was good fun while it lasted with the tabloids upping their game in the trawl for women reader with customary indignation. The Mirror’s Game of two halfwits was the pick of the day, although the Sun’s Get ‘em off (next to a picture of lineswoman Sian Massey dancing in something skimpy) was a bit of an own goal.
I’d been wondering when Andy Burton was going to get a kicking for his part.
Gray is a footballer so knows no better. Richard Keys would have got in on the “changing room crack” and gone native ages ago. But at least he had the nous to apologise.
But Burton had no excuse. As a professional broadcaster, he should have known better than to get caught like Rooney by an Accrington offside trap.
Also, the fun of these spats is the way everyone gets involved: from the dragging up of Ron Atkinson’s racism to Kenny Dalglish, whose daughter used to present for Sky, distancing himself by saying he hadn’t even noticed that the lino whose every decision every manager scrutinises every match was female.
The most hilarious element was the Independent’s Andy Townsend own goal.
As for Gray. Wish I’d upped the stakes on the tenner. Sorry, but what a pillock.
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