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"..and i don't agree with that in the workplace"

The question is not so much about Andy Gray and Richard Keys being sexist or not, I think it’s about what you can and can’t say in the workplace, what you should and shouldn’t do in the workplace and above all what’s right and wrong.. The two of them are highly paid in a high profile job and whether the cameras are rolling or a tape is running they need to behave themselves at work. In most professions the kind of comments they made would be cause for action, therefore their positions amplify the situation. Richard Keys comments in front of Souness, Redknapp and Gullit brought to mind David Brent trying to impress Finchy with his laddishness in The Office, so cringe inducing were they. Clearly there are a lot of staff members at Sky who were waiting for an opportunity to burst the bubble of the old boy network. Their Super Sunday and MNF inane banter and woeful lack of insight was not enough to get shot of them (at the time of writing Keys is still in a job) but whatever the case, t...

Match of the Daze 2

Following on from yesterdays post, I never thought i would say this , but after lasts night's Match of the day final straw; I agree with Stan Collymore! 'If MOTD isn't a debate show and just a highlight reel, then why have pundits at all? 'It's a lazy show that doesn't provoke debate in our game and just says, "We've been there and done it and we don't have to do anything but sit here and dole out clichés". 'MOTD just looks like a golfing clique who have a passing interest in football, and that can't be right?' “Shake it up someone, please”-Stan Collymore on MOTD   http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ravfBYfpGF8 this would definitely improve the show A footnote: Yes I’m moaning about MOTD, but Wolves v Arsenal could only be viewed by going to Molineux or by watching highlights on MOTD, therefore I had no option but to wait up to see the condensed version. I make it a general rule not to watch it as it has little relation to the actu...