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Keys and Gray meet Talksport: Dumb Dumber & Dumberer

Richard Keys 'ah-ha!' Andy Gray 'I'm an entertainer' "And the public gets what the public wants, but I want nothing this society's got"-P.Weller It was inevitable; the unfeasibly popular and populist TalkSport has hired Keys & Gray, the Alan Partridge and David Brent of sports broadcasting. Their tiresome and odious sexist ways are ideal fodder for TalkSport, along with their inane and outmoded views on football. The great British public eat this garbage up with gusto. TalkSport since it dropped the 'Radio' from it's previous incarnation as TalkRadio has become like The Sun newspaper, Tetley tea and Reality TV; part of the landscape-hardcore for the masses. The opinions of the so called experts are listened to in Taxis, white vans, cafes and work places throughout the country. Every topic designed to generate controversy and phone calls (calls cost up to 10p per minute), TEXT: 81089 (50p plus standard rate). Along with their rev...

sorry seems to be the easiest word

Richard Keys apologises for being the new David Brent live on Talksport with a tear in the eye for Andy Gray's Gareth Keenan. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/football/competitions/premier-league/8283567/Richard-Keys-attacks-dark-forces-at-work-in-Sky-Sports-sexism-row.html To hear the grovelling pronouncements flowing with diversion and buck passing click on link. The fact that he says ‘sorry’ about 100 times should not detract from the large number of “I can’t comment” and “dark forces” innuendos. The comments about Karen Brady playing the gender card, and ‘Lads Mag banter’ did him no favours. It smacked of a man hanging onto his career, knowing that the so called dark forces are not out to get him but that his time is up. His style of Punditry should be removed from the media world and this is just the excuse needed by Sky to out the pair of them. Keys surely faces the chop as I can’t believe that there aren’t more audio visual tit bits awaiting broadcast to further bury Key...