Andy Gray sacked by Sky

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BBC Sport - Football - Andy Gray sacked by Sky for offensive behaviour

Sounds like there was more to it than previously thought.

[Zippy]

BBC Sport - Football - Andy Gray sacked by Sky for offensive behaviour

Sounds like there was more to it than previously thought.

I think we are in danger of losing our sense of humour. Andy Gray's comments were crass, but football's a funny old game and you need to recognise that most of these guys are stuck in a time warp.
Plus you need the rub of the green, obviously.

WTF does taking Sian Massey off refing duties achieve? So she'd have got some abuse at her next match, as all refs do. Am sure she could handle it.

[MarillionFan]

There's a chap here who says his wife works at Sky with Andy Gray and says he is seriously disliked having recently got some fellow workers sacked.

His wife has been saying this was payback.

[Clippy]

There's a chap here who says his wife works at Sky with Andy Gray and says he is seriously disliked having recently got some fellow workers sacked.

His wife has been saying this was payback.

True or BS?

If true, then

[MarillionFan]

True or BS?

If true, then

True according to the bloke in the office.

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Yep, sounds like he won't be missed. Linky dinky

[Wodewick]

Sounds like there was more to it than previously thought.

Yep - he is a loud mouthed, pretty talentless, knuckle dragging gob-tulipe from the dark ages who has finally been stupid enough to set himself up to be shotdown?

[pacharan]

He wasn't sacked for the comments about Sian Massey. He was sacked because of some footage they dredged up of him making a suggestive comment to a female colleague as he was being miked up. He lifted up his belt and was heard to say could you tuck this in for me?

Can't help feeling he was a little hard done by there. Hardly crime of the century.

[Clippy]

True according to the bloke in the office.

It does seem strange that the footage being 'leaked' is from his actual employer.

Perhaps there is some truth to the current conspiracy theory.

So, was Sky pundit Andy Gray the target of a conspiracy?

Conspiracy theorists are having a field day trying to piece together the extraordinary chain of events in which Andy Gray became embroiled.

Many of those who regularly saw him on their TV screens will be unaware that the 55-year-old pundit for Sky Sports (owned by BSkyB) is currently embroiled in a legal battle with the News Of The World (owned by News International).

And this connection has been seized upon on Twitter and the blogosphere. One Tweet reads ‘Andy Gray sues New (sic) of the World for phone tapping. Sexist tapes (mostly recorded by Sky) leaked. Coincidence?’ while a blog has been written entitled ‘Rupert Murdoch, phone-tapping and revenge against Gray’.

Mr Gray claims his phone was hacked by the News Of The World and, along with the comedian and actor Steve Coogan, he is trying to find out who was involved.

Both he and Coogan want Glenn Mulcaire, the private detective at the centre of the case, to name those at the Sunday newspaper who allegedly accessed their mobile phone voicemail and to whom the information was passed.

To some, it seems a tad suspicious that just as the phone hacking story reaches a crescendo - with the resignation of David Cameron’s spokesman Andy Coulson - these TV recordings should mysteriously find their way into the public domain. What makes the leaks all the more surprising is that News Corp is known for its corporate discipline.

[EC4N]

Irrespective what the actual reasons for him being sacked are, he's highlighting the fact that there's a functional difference between men and women. It's only in the last 40 years that womens roles have changed drastically, largely due to the feminist movement compared to the whole of history. And with that according to leading thinkers there's been the inevitable consequence of disintegration of society. I don't think it's crass or to be considered living in the dark ages to hold such an opinion (based on sound research).