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

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

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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.