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  grumpymort  US/Thailand/UK 15 Aug 22 4.49pm |
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This is the way it is now people can't say the truth. I expect he will be limited when he appears or they will get rid off. Modern football is not a "mans" game and its getting to the stage no contact sport look at all the changes that was unnecessary the game of the past has gone. These are more like entertainers now
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Midlands Eagle  15 Aug 22 5.02pm |
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Originally posted by The Dolphin
The female pundit was only there to promote diversity - for no other reason at all - promotion over talent and positive discrimination as such. I don't mind it at all in most sports but football, rugby and cricket should be men for the men's game and women for the women's game in my opinion. I sort of agree but not wholly. Cricket on Sky has a couple of female commentators. Ebony Rainford-Brent is good and worth her place on the commentary team whilst Lydia Greenway has the sort of voice that puts you off listening. In the recent series against New Zealand Sky used the Australian Mel Jones on the commentary team and again she was good. I refuse to watch Football Focus since Alex Scott took over as she mangles the English language to bits whilst Sky now seem to have more female pundits and experts than male
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| Helmet46 Croydon 15 Aug 22 5.05pm |
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It’s utter, utter bollox. Mens football IS a man’s game. If she doesn’t like that then she can commentate on womens football - which is a woman’s game. I’m not remotely offended by someone saying, of womens football, ‘it’s a woman’s game’ so why these woke tossers are offended the other way is beyond me.
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| Willo South coast - west of Brighton. 15 Aug 22 5.11pm |
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Originally posted by Midlands Eagle
I sort of agree but not wholly. Cricket on Sky has a couple of female commentators. Ebony Rainford-Brent is good and worth her place on the commentary team whilst Lydia Greenway has the sort of voice that puts you off listening. In the recent series against New Zealand Sky used the Australian Mel Jones on the commentary team and again she was good. I refuse to watch Football Focus since Alex Scott took over as she mangles the English language to bits whilst Sky now seem to have more female pundits and experts than male For some while I have not been happy with some of the decisions taken by SKY : 1. Removing long-standing pundits from 'Soccer Saturday'.
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| pax3908 15 Aug 22 5.18pm |
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Originally posted by Willo
I fully concur with the sentiments of Graeme Souness in relation to the 'Higher bar' referees now use so as to not disrupt the flow of the game.His point was that the game has been slowed down by footballers "Buying fouls" and going to ground far too easily and now challenges are being let go and the game is a better spectacle for it. In his view "We have got our game back" and Souness made comments in this context. A gentleman describing a game featuring solely men pilloried for using the word "men" or indeed "Man".He was not decrying the game played by women. Totally ridiculous over-reaction.
Edited by Willo (15 Aug 2022 3.43pm)
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| YT Oxford 15 Aug 22 6.30pm |
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Originally posted by Helmet46
It’s utter, utter bollox. Mens football IS a man’s game. If she doesn’t like that then she can commentate on womens football - which is a woman’s game. I’m not remotely offended by someone saying, of womens football, ‘it’s a woman’s game’ so why these woke tossers are offended the other way is beyond me. I was going to post my comments, but you've expressed perfectly what I was going to say.
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| YT Oxford 15 Aug 22 6.33pm |
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Originally posted by Midlands Eagle
I sort of agree but not wholly. Cricket on Sky has a couple of female commentators. Ebony Rainford-Brent is good and worth her place on the commentary team whilst Lydia Greenway has the sort of voice that puts you off listening. In the recent series against New Zealand Sky used the Australian Mel Jones on the commentary team and again she was good. I refuse to watch Football Focus since Alex Scott took over as she mangles the English language to bits whilst Sky now seem to have more female pundits and experts than male I'm quite partial to the lady who presents cricket on BBC. Isa Guha. Very nice, and speaks very nicely too.
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| Palace Old Geezer Midhurst 15 Aug 22 6.39pm |
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In my view Souness is one of the better pundits on TV. He is forthright without being strident and he speaks intelligently from his wide range of experience as a player and a coach. As others have already stated, his comments about the way matches are being refereed so far this season were spot on. The games are flowing more and we are seeing football played in the way most of us enjoy, without frequent, unnecessary stoppages. It amuses me when a player fakes an injury, rolls about on the ground waiting for the ref to stop the game and instead signals for him to get to his feet and play on. Immediately he's up and running around without as much as a limp. Players are beginning to realise that this ridiculous behaviour has been rumbled. The criticism levelled at Souness for saying what most, right minded people think, is beyond belief.
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| YT Oxford 15 Aug 22 6.44pm |
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Originally posted by Palace Old Geezer
In my view Souness is one of the better pundits on TV. He is forthright without being strident and he speaks intelligently from his wide range of experience as a player and a coach. As others have already stated, his comments about the way matches are being refereed so far this season were spot on. The games are flowing more and we are seeing football played in the way most of us enjoy, without frequent, unnecessary stoppages. It amuses me when a player fakes an injury, rolls about on the ground waiting for the ref to stop the game and instead signals for him to get to his feet and play on. Immediately he's up and running around without as much as a limp. Players are beginning to realise that this ridiculous behaviour has been rumbled. The criticism levelled at Souness for saying what most, right minded people think, is beyond belief. A great choice of word!
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| Willo South coast - west of Brighton. 15 Aug 22 6.44pm |
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Originally posted by Palace Old Geezer
In my view Souness is one of the better pundits on TV. He is forthright without being strident and he speaks intelligently from his wide range of experience as a player and a coach. As others have already stated, his comments about the way matches are being refereed so far this season were spot on. The games are flowing more and we are seeing football played in the way most of us enjoy, without frequent, unnecessary stoppages. It amuses me when a player fakes an injury, rolls about on the ground waiting for the ref to stop the game and instead signals for him to get to his feet and play on. Immediately he's up and running around without as much as a limp. Players are beginning to realise that this ridiculous behaviour has been rumbled. The criticism levelled at Souness for saying what most, right minded people think, is beyond belief. Hear Hear
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cryrst  The garden of England 16 Aug 22 3.48am |
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Originally posted by grumpymort
This is the way it is now people can't say the truth. I expect he will be limited when he appears or they will get rid off. Modern football is not a "mans" game and its getting to the stage no contact sport look at all the changes that was unnecessary the game of the past has gone. These are more like entertainers now Probably get nicked by the plod for hurty words and lose his career. Welcome to woke world.
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| CPFC1965 Warrington 16 Aug 22 5.00am |
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If Ssouness was acting as a pundit for women's football, then fair enough he would deserve the vitriol, but he wasn't. I warch women's football with my daughter, I watch the highlight programmes, the one thing you don't see now are male pundits, why's that? Two male teams playing football is a man's game, two female teams playing is woman's game end of.
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