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Got the new FIFA 11 commentary update. My wife went on it, Andy Gray shouted 'put that f**king controller down and get back to the kitchen':whistle:
 
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Quite right. Wimminfolk should know their place - preparing meals, having kids, and feeding the cute fluffy kittens. Anything else is presumptuousness gone mad, and should be stamped on with a studded boot.

I agree with Aldaniti - wottalottabosh. I asked a footie fan, a large male in his prime, what the offside rule meant. He made his excuses and left.
 
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Its no different to Ron Atkinsons off camera comments and far worse than Rodney Marshs Tsuami joke, for which he was fired (suspect they were looking for an excuse)
. they should go
I cant watch keys or gray and turn sound off immediately. Cant stand their constant coporate "on message" drivel. They are past sell by date and i do wonder if sky knew this and leaked the stuff themselves

As for what they said...not worth commenting on.
 
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i do wonder if sky... leaked the stuff themselves
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I've had the same dark thought.

If Sky did this deliberately it amounts to entrapment and they wouldn't get away with sacking them. Even if they didn't deliberately entrap them, I don't think it would be right to sack them for voicing gasbagging nonsense in a private conversation, as long as their behaviour towards colleagues and on-screen demeanour is as it ought to be.
 
I think a key difference with the Rodney Marsh joke is that he was trying to be funny. It is clear that he didn't mean any malice by it, it was just poorly judged.

I find it mindboggling that people could hold the opinions held by those two meatheads.
 
Agree BTB. I thought the Marsh sacking was really over the top. Someone didnt like him, thqts for sure

Im not sure i agree Grey because although private (and arguably should have been kept that way of course) they are in the communication business and have lost quite a bit of their (not very great) credibility. It shows them to be (as suspected...and lets just say, one is a well known letch anyway) abolsute cretins

But agree that this could have be set up.
 
and far less worse than Rodney Marshs Tsuami joke, for which he was fired (suspect they were looking for an excuse)
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Ahh... meant far worse ..not less worse (which is rotten english anyway)
 
They should join jew hating Ken Livingstone on the Iranian goverments channel. Plenty of women hating views for them to wallow in there for sure and they would feel comforatbly at home with another bigot
 
Seeig him in the Standard on a near daily basis can ruin anyone's enjoyment of the train ride home.
 
If you say something in a private conversation surely ynu can't be sacked for it? I would be looking to sack whoever leaked it because they are in serious breach of their contract.
 
But are you in 'private' conversation, Gears, when you're working, and when you're discussing issues about the work you do?

You might say your employer's the biggest tosspot this side of the Liffey when you're down the pub. Saying it while you're on his payroll, at work, to a colleague - that's another thing if he hears about it, surely?
 
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It's a fine line I suppose. News has just broken on Twitter that he has been sacked due to new evidence.
 
Sian Massey withdrawn from match tonight,Crewe v Bradford.Hardly surprising given the publicity this is generating. It will be a surprise if Keys remains me thinks but will he fall or be pushed?
 
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I've had the same dark thought.

If Sky did this deliberately it amounts to entrapment and they wouldn't get away with sacking them. Even if they didn't deliberately entrap them, I don't think it would be right to sack them for voicing gasbagging nonsense in a private conversation, as long as their behaviour towards colleagues and on-screen demeanour is as it ought to be.
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That video evidence certainly changes things. Bye bye
 
An old fashioned conspiracy theory from the Daily Mail:

Conspiracy theorists are having a field day trying to piece together the extraordinary chain of events in which Andy Gray became embroiled.

Many of those who regularly saw him on their TV screens will be unaware that the 55-year-old pundit for Sky Sports (owned by BSkyB) is currently embroiled in a legal battle with the News Of The World (owned by News International).

And this connection has been seized upon on Twitter and the blogosphere. One Tweet reads ‘Andy Gray sues New (sic) of the World for phone tapping. Sexist tapes (mostly recorded by Sky) leaked. Coincidence?’ while a blog has been written entitled ‘Rupert Murdoch, phone-tapping and revenge against Gray’.

The current dilemma the presenter found himself in comes against a background of heavyweight political and financial interests.

For the News Of The World is a subsidiary of 79-year-old Rupert Murdoch’s News Corporation which has a 39 per cent stake in BSkyB and is currently trying to buy the rest.
This is clearly a sensitive issue politically and in the week Mr Murdoch flew into London the Culture Secretary Jeremy Hunt is considering whether to refer the deal to the Competition Commission because it might threaten ‘media plurality’.

But that is not Mr Gray’s concern. His anger is because, he claims, his phone was hacked by the News Of The World and, along with the comedian and actor Steve Coogan, he is trying to find out who was involved.
Both he and Coogan want Glenn Mulcaire, the private detective at the centre of the case, to name those at the Sunday newspaper who allegedly accessed their mobile phone voicemail and to whom the information was passed.

Mulcaire, who was jailed for six months for hacking into the phones of members of the Royal household. A full hearing for the case is scheduled for November this year.

To some, it seems a tad suspicious that just as the phone hacking story reaches a crescendo - with the resignation of David Cameron’s spokesman Andy Coulson - these TV recordings should mysteriously find their way into the public domain. What makes the leaks all the more surprising is that News Corp is known for its corporate discipline.

In the initial tapes, leaked to the Mail on Sunday, Gray and fellow presenter Richard Keys were recorded agreeing that a female football official would need the offside rule explaining to her because she was a woman.

Then came footage released by Sky showing Gray making disparaging remarks about a female match official. The fact it was put out by his own broadcaster begs the question of who, if anyone, high up gave the nod that this should happen.

But being targeted by his ‘own side’ should come as no surprise to the former Scotland player.
Four years ago The Sun (owned by News International) ran a piece about the ‘drunken antics’ of ‘love rat Gray, 50 - who last year got engaged to a friend’s wife’ in La Manga, Spain. Just in case readers were in any doubt as to which Andy Gray this may be the piece helpfully added ‘Gray, paid a whopping £20,000 a week by Sky Sports’.

They also brought up the former player’s past and the fact that he ‘bedded ex-model Rachel Lewis even though her hubby Michael, 57, had been his friend for more than 30 years. Gray then asked Rachel to marry him’.

Time will tell as to what further twists and turns lie ahead in this bewildering tale.


Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...remarks-referees-assistant.html#ixzz1C4QLNARt
 
If the employee he made the remark too did not complain to HR than surely the sacking can be appealed?
 
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The 'sackable' offence was mere banter, was clearly intended as such and was apparently taken as such as well.

Totally different from his previous remarks. Nevertheless I am glad to see him gone.
 
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