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Post by harryburrows on Jan 10, 2019 15:31:03 GMT
As Woodbine Wrightwat wrote in a recent issue of The Oatcake: Great Scott!
AM I the only one who is at all concerned that Sky and BT Sports have yielded to political correctness and started to introduce too many female presenters, like Alex Scott (above), to our football shows?
Don’t get me wrong, I’m as in favour of equal opportunities as anybody, and who doesn’t like to see an attractive lady on the TV?
However, if you’re going to comment on top class Premier League and international football you have to know what you’re on about and I do worry about some of these young ladies.
Yes, they have played a lot themselves but so have all of the Sunday pub footballers in the country and probably in front of bigger crowds than you get at most women’s matches.
Most worrying of all is that these studio jobs used to be a nice little earner for retired male players and they’re now losing these jobs. No wonder so many former Premier League pros are reportedly in financial trouble at the end of their careers.
Since great lads’ magazines like Nuts and Loaded ceased publication the girls have had nowhere to go and earn some money in their undies and now they want the men’s jobs to make up for it.
I’m feeling very uneasy about to all to tell the truth!
Sal is going to shit bin this 👩🎓
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Post by Dresden_scfc on Jan 10, 2019 16:09:42 GMT
Andy Grey and Richard keys wouldn't have stood for this
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Post by Frogger Theft Auto on Jan 10, 2019 16:13:31 GMT
I don’t mind female pundits, that black bird is a pretty good talker, better than loads of the blokes that get gigs. I can’t stand watching a game with that female BBC commentator that does the odd MOTD match though.
Excitable high-pitched voices aren’t suited to commentary, it really starts to grate. I feel like I’m being nagged at whenever there’s a chance at either end, it’s unsettling. There’s loads of jobs that women can do just as well as men but sports commentary is not one.
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Post by stokieinaus on Feb 19, 2019 18:30:25 GMT
Pc has overtaken everything. I like to watch the cricket and there are some very knowledgeable ex players commentating bothan, Lloyd, tuffers, gower etc yet they now have women who totally destroy the entertainment factor the male presenters are constantly on their guard should they mutter something un pc Women should stick to commentating on the women's game. One of the reasons we have ended up like this is because of the way women have been treated in the past. The best example of this is the Nobel Prize in Physics,up until recently only two women had ever won it, one being Marie Curie who actually got it jointly with her husband, thanks to him. The other being Maria Goeppert Mayer, who also shared it with a man. Then there’s Photo 51, which is credited to Raymond Gossling but in fact was setup and thought up by Rosalind Franklin but hey she was a woman in an era when woman were second class citizens. Theres a lot of women that have been used and abused in the past so it was only a matter of time before the tables got turned
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