to think that Sky Sports should sack Andy Gray and Richard Keys for this blatant sexism....

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I know a lot of you don't like football but there was a female assistant referee officiating the game between Wolves and Liverpool yesterday. 2 of Sky Sports' main announcers/commentators were caught off camera (but with the mics still turned on, unbeknownst to them) making these remarks...

i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2011/01_04/sky.mp3

As a man, I can honestly say she did a good job and a lot of us on The Football Ramble forum believe Keys and Gray were out of order. What is the female perspective?

Here is a short transcript.

?Somebody better get down there and explain offside to her,? said Keys.

?Can you believe that? A female linesman. Women don?t know the offside rule,? said Gray.

Keys replied ?Course they don?t. I can guarantee you there will be a big one today. Kenny (Dalglish) will go potty. This isn?t the first time, is it? Didn?t we have one before?? And then he added ?The game?s gone mad. Did you hear charming [West Ham vice-chairwoman] Karren Brady this morning complaining about sexism? Do me a favour, love.?

Ben Shepherd will be become the main presenter I think.

Oh marvellous! Looks like we may not have seen the back of sexist comments on Sky Sports then. Shepherd never let an opportunity to go by on GMTV to engage in sexist 'banter' with his female co-presenter.

By the way, did anyone hear the commments made by the Top Gear crew + Bruce Forsyth ?

Josie; Jeremy Clarkson is (not surprisingly) defending them. He said the top gear lot would have been sacked 100 times for the things they've said if that's the new benchmark.

AG & RK have got a lot of support & will probably be back on TV within a few months - if not weeks - it's all just PR really, because in reality the whole media industry is guilty of sexism and ageism towards women.

Ben Shepard would be fucking awful at it.

yep - & he's not even hot! [blatant sexism]

Anyone read Giles Coren in the Mail Online yesterday I think?

Carmina, I agree - nothing about this really rings true. They've probably been told to lay low for a few months and then will crop up somewhere else, totally reformed characters I'm sure

Clarkson bloody well SHOULD have been sacked 100 times already - and he should take May and Hammond with him. Jumped up little men. I have no words for Bruce Forsyth - Mumsnet, we seriously need a [vomit] emoticon on here! Please!

www.dailymail.co.uk/debate/article-1351183/Want-real-sexism-Watch-TV-adverts.html

And It took all of a few short weeks for RK and AG to be snapped up by 'TalkSPORT -

Amen