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Are there now too many women covering men's sport
- Thread starter greensalt
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Laura Woods can present every single football show going as far as I'm concerned!
Living in Doha, I often watch Bein Sports and a lot of the football is presented by Keys and Gray and blimey, they are bad! I don't remember them being quite that bad during the heady days at Sky, but they are hard to watch now. Keys seems to think he knows the ins and outs of being a top professional footballer, and as such feels the need to offer his own views on absolutely everything. He's often then made to look a fool by the actual ex pros. Gray is not quite as bad, but it's clear that his punditry belongs in about 1998 as analysis has moved on a lot. Still, at least they have Jason McAteer to help sometimes...
Have you heard the Football Cliches podcast? They do Keys & Grey corner every week, it never disappoints.Living in Doha, I often watch Bein Sports and a lot of the football is presented by Keys and Gray and blimey, they are bad! I don't remember them being quite that bad during the heady days at Sky, but they are hard to watch now. Keys seems to think he knows the ins and outs of being a top professional footballer, and as such feels the need to offer his own views on absolutely everything. He's often then made to look a fool by the actual ex pros. Gray is not quite as bad, but it's clear that his punditry belongs in about 1998 as analysis has moved on a lot. Still, at least they have Jason McAteer to help sometimes...
I find the main difference is the banter between the men . There are comments made by the men which they wouldn't make to a woman.
The problem lies in the reason they are there. A lot of the time it isn't based on merit,but based on the TV company wanting to to tick boxes.
Nonsense. The women in these roles have put in far more time and effort into getting relevant qualifications to give themselves the best chance of getting these roles, whereas male ex-players can often just walk into them without any relevant qualifications. The women in these roles are there because they deserve to be there.
Yes, you just need to look back through the years and recall how many complete bozos have had top pundit/co-commentator/live match reporting jobs based entirely on their football careers and fan recognition with no thought seemingly given to how good they might actually have been at the job. You can imagine the 'interview process' consisting of a sesh down the pub.
Haven't you learnt to virtue signal yet ?
Nah makes me sick tbh. Everyone's doing it. Ooh look at me I stand up every one and everything. I'm such a good person.
