Shay Given MOTD

[Pepe]

Organisation employs thick footballer.

Thick footballer uses an offensive term, which wasn’t even applicable to the sentence he used.

Mass outrage

Footballer apolgises

Everyone fees better about themselves. Even more so if footballer has images himself overnight.

 

[Cee Jay]

It’s the statement people invariably come out with ( obviously all devised by PR people)

“ a better chance to educate myself” will try and become a better version of myself”

Mind he’s a droning awful pundit at the best of times

 

[Hot Since 82]

Like Eddie Howe he just needs to take time to educate himself

The same Eddie Howe who was livid and furious about the sycamore gap tree felling but not remotely arsed about his boss beheading hundreds of people every year.

 

[Roker Mackem]

Sacked yet?

 

[Black_Cats1879]

Wonder if they’ll put him through the same witch hunt as walkers crisp boy

 

[Roker-73]

Stupid mag c**t

 

[glendvd100]

He added: "We all have areas of ignorance in our knowledge, and I hope to use this as an opportunity to become better educated going forward.”

This could be said of every single mag about the subject of their owners conversely enough. But they’re not bothered about that.

 

[chunkyshanhawk53]

Absolute genocide of a thread

 

[Drifter]

“Absolute Holocaust” as opposed to one of those barely worth mentioning holocausts.

 

[Turnip from the Tip]

I am not offended myself

But not sure being thick is a good enough excuse

If you are that thick that you are saying stuff like that live on TV, you probs shouldnt work for the BBC I would suggest!

I dont actually mind Shay Given if I am honest.

I like him as a pundit but that was a terrible thing to say. Probably worst than the phrase pardew used all those years ago and I don’t think he worked for the Beeb again.

 

[JL1985]

He should have kept it relevant and mentioned the Gaza Strip.

 

[John the Savage]

20 years on, I still cringe at Rodney Marsh's 'toon army' jibe.

 

[PhilY]

I’m amazed and astounded that anyone - even a footballer - could use that term and not appreciate that it was completely inappropriate abs grossly offensive.

However, he has apologised unreservedly and donated his fee to a Holocaust charity - which is a reasonable and appropriate response. (See, for example and comparison, other public figures - and I’m thinking of the MP for Clacton here with his ludicrous attempts to avoid comment and distance himself from far worse behaviour).

He’ll be a contractor to MOTD so there’s no issue of him getting ‘sacked’ but I wouldn’t be surprised if they decided to use one of the dozens of other rent a gob ‘experts’ to chat about footy on tele in the future.

 

[Brian Griffin]

I’m amazed and astounded that anyone - even a footballer - could use that term and not appreciate that it was completely inappropriate abs grossly offensive.

However, he has apologised unreservedly and donated his fee to a Holocaust charity - which is a reasonable and appropriate response. (See, for example and comparison, other public figures - and I’m thinking of the MP for Clacton here with his ludicrous attempts to avoid comment and distance himself from far worse behaviour).

He’ll be a contractor to MOTD so there’s no issue of him getting ‘sacked’ but I wouldn’t be surprised if they decided to use one of the dozens of other rent a gob ‘experts’ to chat about footy on tele in the future.

All of this

 

[Roker Mackem]

I’m amazed and astounded that anyone - even a footballer - could use that term and not appreciate that it was completely inappropriate abs grossly offensive.

However, he has apologised unreservedly and donated his fee to a Holocaust charity - which is a reasonable and appropriate response. (See, for example and comparison, other public figures - and I’m thinking of the MP for Clacton here with his ludicrous attempts to avoid comment and distance himself from far worse behaviour).

He’ll be a contractor to MOTD so there’s no issue of him getting ‘sacked’ but I wouldn’t be surprised if they decided to use one of the dozens of other rent a gob ‘experts’ to chat about footy on tele in the future.

Well yeah thats basically a sacking. Probs end up at Talksport

 

[PhilY]

Well yeah thats basically a sacking. Probs end up at Talksport

Legally, it is totally different.

 

[Roker Mackem]

Legally, it is totally different.

Aye anar

 

[Hot Since 82]

Legally, it is totally different.

Terminology though. As a professional you can be 'sacked' by a client and requested to disengage. Wonder if Given has a BBC contract, ie via his own company or whatever.

 

[PhilY]

Terminology though. As a professional you can be 'sacked' by a client and requested to disengage. Wonder if Given has a BBC contract, ie via his own company or whatever.

he’ll be a contractor.

 

[Gentwo]

I’d love to see him just double down and own it.

“Aye lads I’ve done some research into the holocaust and Wilfred Nancy’s reign as Celtic manager is definitely worse than that”

Holocaust historic meaning of a sacrifice in which the offering was

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I don’t like Celtic fans but I must have missed the part where Nancy burned someone alive to the footballing gods to get a result against Motherwell