He kinda messed up once in a very long time... but he messed up preety bad! A think if those 2 could solved it between them , he should have his job back. Allthough he has perhaps lost alot of respect over this issue.
He kinda messed up once in a very long time... but he messed up preety bad! A think if those 2 could solved it between them , he should have his job back. Allthough he has perhaps lost alot of respect over this issue.
Poster
Wrong. The kind of language he used has no place in a modern, multi-cultural country like Britain. His claim that he "thought the microphone was off"makes it seem even worse.
Good riddance to a shit pundit!!!
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Poster
After this, even if he'd kept the job he'd always be thought of as the guy who's racist* and every comment made in relation to a black player during a match would be over-scrutinised.
I'm glad he's gone. There is no way he should continue a job as a public figure in a sport desperately trying to get rid of racist crap. To allow him to continue working would have condoned this kind of behaviour and would be a step backwards.
(*and also as the guy who always pronounced Kanu as "Canoe")
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en(un)lightened
It seems appropriate, even given his previous efforts to give blacks a leg up, that his comment (no matter how it is characterized, or mitigated by his "actual" beliefs) trumps other factors.
I know many of these types; the ones who say things while in their cups they would never say otherwise.
My attitude is, if it comes out when one is drunk, it is in there somewhere when one is sober.
I have said farewell to lots of people over this very thing.
"Researchers have already cast much darkness on the subject, and if they continue their investigations, we shall soon know nothing at all about it."
-Mark Twain
If he would have said "He's what is known in some schools as a lazy thick nigger" instead of "He's what is known in some schools as a fucking lazy thick nigger" I think it wouldn't have been so bad.
en(un)lightened
Well, yes; he did pile it a little higher and deeper with that, didn't he.Originally posted by j4y3m@25 April 2004 - 20:17
If he would have said "He's what is known in some schools as a lazy thick nigger" instead of "He's what is known in some schools as a fucking lazy thick nigger" I think it wouldn't have been so bad.
I mean, surely he offended sexual practitioners everywhere?
Egregiously gratuitous.
"Researchers have already cast much darkness on the subject, and if they continue their investigations, we shall soon know nothing at all about it."
-Mark Twain
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