Why Glen Hoddle Should NOT Replace Andy Gray At Sky Sports
This is a guest post by Rumbold. Thanks to Rumbold, who originally posted this at Pickled Politics this morning.
Sky pundit Andy Gray, already under pressure following his sexist comments about a female assistant referee and women in general, has been sacked by Sky after new footage emerged of a previous incident where he made sexually suggestive comments to another presenter. Given that his views and behaviour are fairly typical, he was unlucky in that he got caught, with others who have no doubt said similar things now distancing themselves from him. The search for his replacement is underway, and who is in the running (though not the favourite) to fill his shoes, but Glenn Hoddle, who had this to say about disabled people when England manager:
“You and I have been physically given two hands and two legs and half-decent brains,” he was quoted as saying. “Some people have not been born like that for a reason. The karma is working from another lifetime.” I have nothing to hide about that. It is not only people with disabilities. What you sow, you have to reap.”
Samedifference1 adds: I was driving to school the day that happened when it came on the radio in the morning news. It’s been in my head ever since. It returned when I saw that he was on MSN’s list of 10 replacements: http://sport.uk.msn.com/football/back-of-the-net/photos.aspx?cp-documentid=155974324 and I thought ‘Not Glen Hoddle, please Sky, not Glen Hoddle.’
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