[Closed] Andy Gray SACKED by Sky.........

Christ they're going to give his job to a lady aren't they! 8)

[url= http://www.singletrackworld.com/forum/topic/i-wholeheartedly-agree-sexist-sky-commentators-content/page/2#post-2214866 ]Ahem...[/url]

Speaking the truth can damage your pocket. 🙂

Good. He deserves nothing else; there'll be a 'disrepute, dishonour & disgrace' clause in his contract which will make this easy for Sky to enforce

a 'disrepute, dishonour & disgrace'

I'm assuming (with hindsight) that that's what Sky's HR & legal department would have spent the last few days looking for.

I'm also guessing (again with hindsight) that a fair few of the behind the cameras staff at Sky mustn't like the idiot. Quite a few tapes were leaked.

Overhyped nonsense from start to finish.

and just as he was pursuing the News of the World for phone hacking...what are the chances of an off air, off colour remark being broadcast by Sky to suit Murdock's evil schemes? No that's never happened before...

Is she standing in the background?

Is it wrong that I agree entirely with his sacking but still laughed at that picture?

The worlds gone mad I tells the.

Ridiculous PC knee jerk nonsense. Although 5live did say that this relates to a previous incident, details of which are at present unknown, rather than the last couple of days.

Looks like they were just waiting for an excuse to get shut of him.

I hope that this is due to him being naughty and not to do with his case against NoTW.

why pc knee jerk nonsense?, if hed said the same things based on race rather than gender should he have been sacked?

Which again, would have been pc knee jerk nonsense.

Society needs a thicker skin...

Which again, would have been pc knee jerk nonsense.

Don't you think you made enough of an eejit out of yourself yesterday?

Which again, would have been pc knee jerk nonsense.

Really? He was being paid a great deal of money to represent Sky; now that he's tainted goods, they've done the sensible thing and off-loaded him.

Don't you think you made enough of an eejit out of yourself yesterday?

None whatsoever. If others do then that's their perogative. Im quite comfortable with my views so I really would let it bother you...

Don't get me wrong, Andy Gray is a tit, but what he did was no way a sackable offence. There is obviously an additional agenda at play on this one.

Good. He's a dinosaur.

I know its panto, but he has slated Arsenal for years even when they have been playing the most amazing football he has ever seen.
He was an average player and a poor pundit. Glad he's gone. Hope he rots

You see how much trouble one woman official has caused.......think what would happen if more were encouraged to join!
Lets make sure they never get the vote!

" What's that? Emily who? never heard of her!"

I assume that Sky invoked the clause that said "if you only speak in the present tense, even when commentating on past events, your employment may be terminated summarily".

Shame that the BBC haven't got the same in their agreements, or they could have got rid of Mark Bright a long time ago....

Feel sorry for the girl herself - she's been when & truly blown up into the public's conscience & withdrawn from the game she was supposed to officiating at tonight.

I'm sure as a football official she has heard alot worse that 'hear love do you know the offside rule'

All a bit ott sacking him, what next thought police.

Society needs a thicker skin...

Nope it needs a higher average value of IQ...

They must be under immense pressure to get the descisions correct. She must have been even under even more pressure, knowing that she will be scrutinsed by thousands of men with the same views as grey. Glad he got the sack, microphones on or off he still has those views so he should have been sacked straight away.

Overhyped nonsense from start to finish

Not really, highly paid person in public view expressing an archaic and stupid viewpoint (albeit in a joke), deserves to be shot. I mean fired.

I'm sure as a football official she has heard alot worse that 'hear love do you know the offside rule'

Yeah, sure, from the half-wits in the pub. Not from supposedly intelligent sport lovers in a position of some authority/meaning. There's no defending it.

The Guardian's 'Fiver' linked to some more 'previous' from Gray: [url=

Oh, and Juan +1

juan +2

Four.

(juan + 3......)

LOL @ Juan!

🙂

+1 BTW

Great to see Sky taking a stand against sexism.

Now, who's the soccerette this Saturday?

[i]why pc knee jerk nonsense?, if hed said the same things based on race rather than gender should he have been sacked?

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No, it's the folk who like to dictate to others what they should say/think who should be sacked.

excellent warton 😆

He was an average player

He was PFA young player of the year, a Scottish international in the day when they had an embarassment of riches and had such a long and distinguished carrer because he was an average player 🙄

The man is an idiot, he represented everything that is wrong with modern football and Sky telly.

Yeah, sure, from the half-wits in the pub. Not from supposedly intelligent sport lovers in a position of some authority/meaning. There's no defending it.

Wasn't meant to come across as defending them was an observation mostly from hearing the boos from the wolves fans after the first Liverpool goal on motd.

Women have the capability to officiate, commentate, pundit and referee at any level in football. Whether you want to see or hear it is an entirely different proposition.

Juan and idave +1

but what he did was no way a sackable offence

Yawn...

Some of couldn't care less if we 'appeal' to women. I'm married and I don't spend time with any so what would I care.

As for not having a job and how it relates to my persona on an Internet forum. Erm...... 🙄

loddrik finally wakes up, welcome, the year is 2011, you've been asleep since 1956

Three strikes and he is out it seems. Hardly knee jerk when someone makes sexist comments twice (both caught on tape) and also makes lude comments to a colleague (also caught on tape).

All a bit ott sacking him, what next thought police.

I bet you long for the days when you could throw a bit of casual racist and sexist banter around, eh? Maybe a bit of homophobia thrown in too, ooh, how about taking the mick out of the disabled as well?

Love the way the Hard of Thinking bang on about 'PC' or 'Thought Police' whenever anything that challenges their tiny narrow little minds pops up.

Also particularly love the way Juan has propperly pwned Loddrik. Quality. 😆

I just don't think he was that good as a pundit. Always showed a distinct lack of impartiality and was prone to exaggeration.

Plus, he was a dick.

Have you all seen the video
http://www.talksport.co.uk/radio/drivetime/blog/2011-01-25/see-video-got-andy-gray-sack-sky

I don't think i could get away with that in my office...

loddrik: "What's wrong with being sexy?"

Tbf homophobia is rife on this forum but for some reason it is more tolerated than the twin satans of sexism and racism. Funny that...

As for being 'owned', I guess I'll just have to rebuild my life best I can.... 🙄

Although with an IQ as low as mine I'll need to get someone to explain the put down to me.

Garryglitter - you really are asking the wrong person on such matters.

loddrik - Member

I probably am a sexist bigot but I'm happy with that. Just for the record, I don't hate women I just find them incredibly irritating. My wife knows this and just blanks it.

From yesterdays thread.

Married - For how much longer?

how about taking the mick out of the disabled as well?

What ? Like you calling Hodgson 'Woy' for the last 4 months because of his speech impediment ?

💡

Not at all offensive that was it ?

😆

What did juan say about IQ again?

Not at all offensive that was it ?

Nope. No more so than calling Jonathon Ross 'Wossy'. Which he seems ok with. And I hadn't considered Woy had a speech impediment actually, as he's perfectly understandable. I'd consider it more a characteristic of the way he talks, than an 'impediment'. It's certainly not a disability.

But you knew that anyway... 😉

So you'd happily take the mick out of someone that you didn't know, face to face, because they had that speech impediment ?

Ha Ha Ha Trail monkey lovely point se also use of bacon face

Tbf homophobia is rife on this forum but for some reason it is more tolerated

Lets just hope his replacement is a woman, preferably one with big knockers...... Please

Wouldn't a sexy voice be more betterer?

thanks bloodynora for that tea/screen interface

So you'd happily take the mick out of someone that you didn't know, face to face, because they had that speech impediment ?

Not if they genuinely had a 'speech impediment', no. As I've pointed out; 'Woy' doesn't have a speech impediment. No more so than an Aussie or Geordie or a Glaswegian does...

Or if he genuinely does, rather than it simply being a characterstic of the way he speaks, then maybe I'm evil and shall burn in hell for all eternity...

Oh, and the 'Woy' thing has been around for some time, and din't seem to bother Mr Hodgson. Seems you're getting outraged on his behalf... 😉

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Tbf homophobia is rife on this forum but for some reason it is more tolerated

you keep saying this but it gets challenged whenever I have seen it on a thread.
Eithe rway how exactly would that make sexism or racism OK?

That's a peculiar interpretation...

My point is that there seems to be a holier than thou attitude by many forum members with regards sexist comments/attitude, yet homophobia, of which there is much exhibited on this forum, seems to be more acceptable. Why would that be...?
Are gay/lesbian people less tolerated or 'fair game'?

Glad to see the back of him. He's a moron. Quite how he has enjoyed such longevity in his career as a pundit defies belief. One several compelling reasons not to become a Sky subscriber.

No doubt he'll earn a coin now as an un-PC martyr on the same sportsman's dinner circuit as the likes of Jim Davidson. Column in the Daily Express, slot on TalkRadio - he'll survive.

Btw, any woman with huge breasts would do just fine. Couldn't care less about the voice, as long as it wasn't cockney, welsh or Geordie please.

I'm in a benevolent mood so I'm going to take that shovel off of Elf before he digs himself any deeper.

Gis it 'ere, ta.

"Glad to see the back of him. He's a moron. Quite how he has enjoyed such longevity in his career as a pundit defies belief. One several compelling reasons not to become a Sky subscriber.

No doubt he'll earn a coin now as an un-PC martyr on the same sportsman's dinner circuit as the likes of Jim Davidson. Column in the Daily Express, slot on TalkRadio - he'll survive."

It's a great description of loddrik, well done!

Does someone want to pop down there and explain misogyny to loddrick?

I thought the low IQ quote was irony sorry

I do not see homophobia as rife or tolerated on here and it is challenged in all the threads I have ever seen a comment - indeed i have recieved it for suggesting Elton John was not a suitable father figure due to age and previous history. Some peole took this as proof that I was covering up for my real homophobia.
See also woofterbal thread where I and others have a go at someone for the us eof this derogatory term.

To what threads are you referring? I am suggesting your interpretation is incorrect and just a smoke screen you use to defend your own offensive [ trolls I know] derogatory comments.
Even if it[homophobia being tolerated] was true how would it make what you say ok?

I'm in a benevolent mood so I'm going to take that shovel off of Elf before he digs himself any deeper.

Round dangly things. I had no need for the shovel in the first place mate. 'Woy' is an affectionate nickname. Like 'Wossy', as I've already pointed out. Using it isn't, as you've tried (and failed) to prove, 'taking the mick out of the disabled/people with disabilities'.

Back under your stone...

While we're on the subject. I did go and watch a womens football match once, it was ok, best bit was at the end though when they swapped shirts 🙂 Get my coat now or later?

loddrik - Member

Tbf homophobia is rife on this forum but for some reason it is more tolerated

you keep saying this but it gets challenged whenever I have seen it on a thread.
Eithe rway how exactly would that make sexism or racism OK?

That's a peculiar interpretation...

My point is that there seems to be a holier than thou attitude by many forum members with regards sexist comments/attitude, yet homophobia, of which there is much exhibited on this forum, seems to be more acceptable. Why would that be...?
Are gay/lesbian people less tolerated or 'fair game'?

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Just where is this so called homophobia, stuff thats really nasty,and a blatant slaging of them, i seem to remember, ther eis only one gay lad on here and i dont ever remember him compalining, it must be a self rightous straight thing then.

As for football,who cares, its just a working class thing, a reason to fight, drink and wear shirts with mens names on isnt it. 😀

'Woy' is an affectionate nickname.

Yeah, we all felt the love for him on those threads.. 😆

look, you've been pwnd so just take it and move on. no one can think any worse of you.

Just seems a little strange how one type of 'ism' is more acceptable than another. Given the level of sanctimony they should all be equally abhorrent.

For the record, I don't hate women, I dont feel threatened by women, or who are senior or who earn more (and let's be honest, there are a huge amount of men who are) and I don't tell mother in law jokes. I just don't have any women friends or want any. I also don't have any friends from 'ethnic minorities', I guess this probably makes me racist under the stw pc code.

But I certainly don't think women should be officiating premier league matches.

But I certainly don't think women should be officiating premier league matches.

Why not?

how many people need to ask for examples of it being an ok ism befor eyou either shut up or put up ...basically prove your claim that it is accpeted on here or stop repeating it as it is not true.
Why do you think female refs are just not up to the task of being as rubbish as the male ones then?Scared they will outperform us ?Which is it?
PS I am sure women everywhere are gutted at loosing the chance to have you as a friend

Does this mean loose women is finished too?

Sorry but I don't have time to trawl hundreds of threads to find examples. Plus its more an undercurrent rather than 'I hate gays'

As to why women shouldn't be officiating.. Why stop at officiating, why not let them play alongside men in the same team..?

It was a comment made off air - it might not make him a particularly great bloke but everyone is entitled to a personal opinion stated in private. I've also seen the comment made to Charlotte Jackson which appeared to be nothing more than childish and she ignored them.

The Sky thought police are stepping in again!!

I hate these pathetic knee jerk reactions to appease a few liberal minded whiners.

On a side note I phoned Sky to cancel my Sports subscription as I happen to think Andy Gray is a good presenter regardless of his personal opinions and hate the way Sky try to dictate how people should think. They discounted the package by half and logged my complaint.

It would seem they have been bombarded by cancellation requests. The Scottish woman on the phone was great - real salt of the earth football fan who was totally perplexed by the sacking. She was laughing about how she's said much worse about her male colleagues in the past lol.

Lets make sure they never get the vote!

Or equal pay

As to why women shouldn't be officiating.. Why stop at officiating, why not let them play alongside men in the same team..?

Why not?

No. That's a great idea, let's see arsenal, Chelsea and the scum with a few women in the starting eleven. Sounds great! 🙂

loddrik - Member
Sorry but I don't have time to trawl hundreds of threads to find examples. [b]Plus its more an undercurrent rather than 'I hate gays'[/b]

As to why women shouldn't be officiating.. Why stop at officiating, why not let them play alongside men in the same team..?

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Does it only exist in your mind or view of the forum.

if a male linesman makes an error is it because he made an error or because he's a man?

if a female......

you don't get it do you lodders? if only you lived in another century you'd be chucking another prawn on the barbie.....

No. That's a great idea, let's see arsenal, Chelsea and the scum with a few women in the starting eleven. Sounds great!

Why not, if they are good enough? The bin-dippers could benefit from a wider pool of talent too?

yes why not? What is your problem here?If they are good enought to play or officicate then let them ..stop repeating this and explain why they should not do this?
i will take your inability to [s]prove the claim[/s] trawl the forum for what it is