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| Keys & Gray; off air comments | |
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| Tweet Topic Started: Jan 24 2011, 12:57 PM (3,778 Views) | |
| Setenza | Jan 24 2011, 12:57 PM Post #1 |
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Knitting with only one needle
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They must be the most clichéd comments ever - do they really talk like that off camera? Surely they must have some newer or more modern sexist comments by now... |
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| whatsthatonyourback | Jan 24 2011, 01:04 PM Post #2 |
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Waldo Jeffers
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Richard Keys is such a dick - so complacent in his job that he thinks he's more than just a guy who looks clean and can introduce the next VT with someone speaking in his ear. Andy Gray I'm disappointed in - I don't know anything about his personal views on anything, but I like his commentary skills - he actually makes the effort to explain and enlighten the ignorant viewer as to how football works, and he doesn't seem beholden to the old-pros conventions that mean you can't be honest when a player is doing something naughty or bad. These comments are ignorant, and worse, I suspect the pair know they're ignorant but also think they're funny. |
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| Art Vandelay | Jan 24 2011, 01:17 PM Post #3 |
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the king of carrot flowers
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According to the Grauniad website breaking news section, the two have been suspended from tonight's Bolton v Man City game. The plot thickens. |
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| The Eggman | Jan 24 2011, 01:19 PM Post #4 |
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Tommy McLean
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He displayed more ignorance a couple of weeks ago, when he said, to paraphrase, that Messi's a good player, but he'd like to see him do what he does at Stoke on a rainy January. It wasn't tongue in cheek. Remember Keys' "silly ground, stupid game, f*ck off" for the Faroes-Scotland match a few years ago? The pair are insular cocks. |
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| whatsthatonyourback | Jan 24 2011, 01:33 PM Post #5 |
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Waldo Jeffers
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I'd like to see that, too. Does that make me an insular cock? Oh, and thanks for that slightly disturbing imagery. |
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| The Eggman | Jan 24 2011, 01:36 PM Post #6 |
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Tommy McLean
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Is this f*cking facetious fortnight?
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| Art Vandelay | Jan 24 2011, 01:36 PM Post #7 |
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The comment from Kenny Dalglish was quote funny. For those of you who can't/won't use the link, at a press conference he asked someone from Sky Sports if they had a problem with a female journalist being in the room. |
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| whatsthatonyourback | Jan 24 2011, 01:38 PM Post #8 |
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Waldo Jeffers
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I was not being facetious, Eggs. Maybe I've worn out my facetiousness detector, and it's now my default mode. |
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| Naebody | Jan 24 2011, 01:41 PM Post #9 |
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Twat
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a fair and accurate summation, I'd say. What I don't get about this story is how the recording went public. Everyone who's worked in broadcast knows that much of the stuff said on talkback would make Jerry Sadowitz wince. When you've hours to fill, off the top of your head, the last thing you want is a mellifluous thought rattling away in there like a stone in your shoe. So you say it, no matter how beyond-the-pale it is. Talkback carries an implicit licence to vent everything there is to vent, without consequence. Better there than on air. Everyone understands this. Or, at least, I thought everyone did. |
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| Art Vandelay | Jan 24 2011, 01:45 PM Post #10 |
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Apparently the recording was leaked to the Mail on Sunday by someone at Sky Sports. A fellow journalist with an axe to grind, perhaps? Anyway, it proves what Jim Hacker said was right: always treat any microphone like a live one. |
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| whatsthatonyourback | Jan 24 2011, 01:53 PM Post #11 |
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Waldo Jeffers
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Could this be part of a concerted attack on all branches of News International? The News of the World is getting a pretty tough time regarding the phone hacking thing, despite most other papers doing it too, and there's the NI/BSkyB buyout issue still unresolved. If anyone has a grudge against Murdoch's empire, now would seem like a good time to exercise it. |
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| Naebody | Jan 24 2011, 01:56 PM Post #12 |
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Twat
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More likely some ditzy Doris sixth-former doing her work experience in the gallery. ETA: In light of these regrettable comments I'm suspending myself from tonight's game. Edited by Naebody, Jan 24 2011, 02:18 PM.
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| Naebody | Jan 24 2011, 05:25 PM Post #13 |
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Twat
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Hang on - just noticed that line. Whit? |
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| whatsthatonyourback | Jan 24 2011, 05:37 PM Post #14 |
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Waldo Jeffers
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Try this blog for starters. I'm not usually a blog type of dude, but under the circumstances, there are probably a few good reasons why the whole issue isn't garnering widespread media coverage. |
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| whatsthatonyourback | Jan 24 2011, 05:44 PM Post #15 |
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Waldo Jeffers
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Of course, it could be Murdoch taking aim at Andy Gray for pressing on with legal action against NoW. God, it's confusing. |
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