This is the most PATHETIC thing I've read today

[billyskank]

Neanderthals in the English soccer scene are upset because the BBC has its first female commentator:

Seven years ago, a recent redundancy having conferred a pleasing sense of broadening horizons, I sat down and wrote a cheeky letter to the then editor of Match of the Day, Niall Sloane. I told him I thought it was time his programme, a veritable institution in sports coverage, gave voice to a female football commentator. I suggested myself and he was kind enough to invite me in for a chat. He told me that it was an idea he was interested in. The football reporter Eleanor Oldroyd had shortly before recorded an experimental commentary of a match; it was, Sloane said, only a matter of time before it happened for real.

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This week, the time came, and Jacqui Oatley, for three years author of sturdy Saturday football bulletins for Radio Five Live, was announced as Match of the Day's first female commentator. Her debut broadcast will come from Craven Cottage this Saturday when Fulham host Blackburn.

Explaining the news, the BBC's head of sport, Roger Mosey, says his department wants "to reflect the nation. We want our team to be modern, diverse - and excellent at what they do. Jacqui, like all our commentators, has been selected on merit."

But Jacqui, alas, has not found such support elsewhere. Steve Curry, a football writer for the Daily Mail, has described her appointment as "an insult to the controlled commentaries of John Motson, Mike Ingham and Alan Green" - offensive enough even before you consider that of those three only Ingham can rightfully be described as controlled, since Motson never seems to know what is going on until his cohort Mark Lawrenson tells him, and Green's trademark rants and rampages are as passionate as they are irksome.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/g2/story/0,,2060421,00.html

FFS grow up! :wtf:

[terrya]

It's the 21st century.

You'd think some jerks might finally realize that.

BTW: welcome back, billyskank.

[KitchenWitch]

1. billy!!!!!!!

:loveya:

:*

:hug:

[Deep13]

2. "Oo-oo-oo, ee-ee, ah-ah": commence flinging filth.

Now where's that luggage?

[CaliforniaPeggy]

3. My dear billy!

How lovely to see you posting!

I guess that you can find Neanderthals nearly anywhere these days, huh?

And to think I believed they were extinct!

Excellent post, sweetie!

Give me a moment, and then check your PM...

[skygazer]

4. Well, goodness, how could a woman talk about football?

Forget the fact that 90% of the fans of any sport have never played it - it still takes a man to be an expert. :banghead:

I used to shoot pool in my younger days (the 70's) and it always infuriated me how many men seemed to think it was some kind of physical impossibility that a woman could actually play. I mean, it's not like it takes any great strength or anything else that's essentially "manly" - nevertheless, I had idiots pointing at the balls on the table and telling me, "just hit it right here, sweetheart, and it should go in the little hole." :nuke:

I gained great pleasure in completely embarassing them at the table.

[ohiosmith]

5. Hey Billy.

:hi:

[Orsino]

6. "Not cool, man!"

"Neanderthals," indeed!

[billyskank]

7. Good point

Actually I have no idea what Neanderthal gender politics were like.

[Call Me Wesley]

8. I don't care about soccer ...

But I care about: :hi: Billy! Good to see ya!

[Oeditpus Rex]

9. I can't relate

Every woman I've heard doing sports commentary has been absolutely awful. I've gotten the feeling that their gender is the only reason they got the job.

OTOH, the Giants have had a female PA announcer for a few years, and she's great.



Great to see ya, billy. I found this not long ago and I've been saving it for you:

[In_The_Wind]

10. goodnight ~ billyskank

:loveya: