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Richard Keys...


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He's Scott_M but from the outside. He says stuff and you're supposed either to assume he's privy to inside information, and accept it, or that he's just wiser than anyone else, and accept it. The good thing is it makes any conversation with him mercifully short.

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It was the conversation between him and Redknapp that did him wasn't it?

 

Talking about hanging out the back end of some bird and the microphones and cameras picked it all up.

 

Keys is the sort of cunt who'd blame the pedestrian if he ran someone over on a crossing. The homo-erecrus biffa.

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3 hours ago, Bjornebye said:

He’s the Eamonn Holmes of sports presenters. Thinks he’s the main man, everyone hates him and he’s a cunt. 

I came on her to say something very similar and call him the Piers Morgan of football. I hope he gets Buy one, get one free, bad doghouse shit aids (I got that mixed up but couldn't be arsed t change it).

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4 hours ago, Red Banjo said:

It was the conversation between him and Redknapp that did him wasn't it?

 

Talking about hanging out the back end of some bird and the microphones and cameras picked it all up.

 

Keys is the sort of cunt who'd blame the pedestrian if he ran someone over on a crossing. The homo-erecrus biffa.

I thought he'd already been binned by Sky when that came out.  Were'nt him and Gray booted for chatting shit because a woman - A. WOMAN! - was running the line for a match?

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31 minutes ago, AngryOfTuebrook said:

I thought he'd already been binned by Sky when that came out.  Were'nt him and Gray booted for chatting shit because a woman - A. WOMAN! - was running the line for a match?


I think that came out in the days after. The “definitely smashed it” came first. That’s how I remember it anyway. 

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What did Richard Keys and Andy Gray say to get sacked?

 

The pair spoke of their disapproval of women officiating football matches, questioning their knowledge and qualifications.

 

During Liverpool's 3-0 Premier League victory against Wolves, when Massey made a tight offside decision that was found to be completely correct upon video replay, Keys said, thinking their microphones had been switched off: “Somebody better get down there and explain offside to her Massey.”

 

“Yeah, I know. Can you believe that? Female linesman. Forget what I said - they probably don’t know the offside rule," Gray added.

 

"Course they don't," said Keys.

Gray replied: “Why is there a female linesman? Somebody’s f*cked up big.”

 

Keys was also found to have made a comment about West Ham United vice-chair Karren Brady's newspaper column, saying: "The game's gone mad. See charming Karren Brady this morning complaining about sexism? Yeah. Do me a favour, love."

 

Another tape was revealed consisting of Gray crudely discussing Massey's physical appearance with a different colleague - Andy Burton.

 

Both Sky Sports and the FA condemned the comments, which led to Keys resigning from his role and Gray being sacked.

 

Keys later said: "Prehistoric banter isn't acceptable in the modern world. I accept that. We failed to change when the world has changed. We wholeheartedly apologise for our behaviour. It was wrong. I deserve to be battered. I can stand up and take a beating. I'm not sorry for me, I'm sorry for Sian Massey."

 

Gray then stated: "If off-air conversations of television and radio presenters were recorded, there would be no one left working. That is not to defend what happened."

 

Keys attempted to apologise one last time before the end of his final hour-long broadcast, saying, "One last time, sorry. Not for myself. We got it wrong. Bad."

 

The statement was made in a final attempt to save his job, but was not well-received.

 

The Premier League confirmed that Keys had called Massey to apologise, but that did not stop him from continuing blaming the ordeal on "misguided fun" and referring to "lads' mag humour", attributing it as normal in pubs, clubs and dressing rooms across the country.

 

"There is not inherent sexism at Sky, nor in the sports department or the football department. There is a sports room, a little boisterous like a dressing room up and down the country. It reflects what goes on in pubs and clubs," he said.

 

"If you're in a pub and a masculine type is bothering someone at the bar, we don't like that. There is an attitude that exists such as that. If this starts to change that, it would give me some pleasure."

 

Both Keys and Gray eventually signed a contract with Al Jazeera in June 2013, covering football from Qatar where they commentate on the Premier League, FA Cup and the Champions League. The pair are now flagship presenters of the BeIN Sports channels.

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3 hours ago, Vincent Vega said:

What did Richard Keys and Andy Gray say to get sacked?

 

The pair spoke of their disapproval of women officiating football matches, questioning their knowledge and qualifications.

 

During Liverpool's 3-0 Premier League victory against Wolves, when Massey made a tight offside decision that was found to be completely correct upon video replay, Keys said, thinking their microphones had been switched off: “Somebody better get down there and explain offside to her Massey.”

 

“Yeah, I know. Can you believe that? Female linesman. Forget what I said - they probably don’t know the offside rule," Gray added.

 

"Course they don't," said Keys.

Gray replied: “Why is there a female linesman? Somebody’s f*cked up big.”

 

Keys was also found to have made a comment about West Ham United vice-chair Karren Brady's newspaper column, saying: "The game's gone mad. See charming Karren Brady this morning complaining about sexism? Yeah. Do me a favour, love."

 

Another tape was revealed consisting of Gray crudely discussing Massey's physical appearance with a different colleague - Andy Burton.

 

Both Sky Sports and the FA condemned the comments, which led to Keys resigning from his role and Gray being sacked.

 

Keys later said: "Prehistoric banter isn't acceptable in the modern world. I accept that. We failed to change when the world has changed. We wholeheartedly apologise for our behaviour. It was wrong. I deserve to be battered. I can stand up and take a beating. I'm not sorry for me, I'm sorry for Sian Massey."

 

Gray then stated: "If off-air conversations of television and radio presenters were recorded, there would be no one left working. That is not to defend what happened."

 

Keys attempted to apologise one last time before the end of his final hour-long broadcast, saying, "One last time, sorry. Not for myself. We got it wrong. Bad."

 

The statement was made in a final attempt to save his job, but was not well-received.

 

The Premier League confirmed that Keys had called Massey to apologise, but that did not stop him from continuing blaming the ordeal on "misguided fun" and referring to "lads' mag humour", attributing it as normal in pubs, clubs and dressing rooms across the country.

 

"There is not inherent sexism at Sky, nor in the sports department or the football department. There is a sports room, a little boisterous like a dressing room up and down the country. It reflects what goes on in pubs and clubs," he said.

 

"If you're in a pub and a masculine type is bothering someone at the bar, we don't like that. There is an attitude that exists such as that. If this starts to change that, it would give me some pleasure."

 

Both Keys and Gray eventually signed a contract with Al Jazeera in June 2013, covering football from Qatar where they commentate on the Premier League, FA Cup and the Champions League. The pair are now flagship presenters of the BeIN Sports channels.

They fit right in with their tailor made women are inferior Arab friends.

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12 hours ago, Kevin D said:

 "The game's gone mad. See charming Karren Brady this morning complaining about sexism? Yeah. Do me a favour, love."
 

Top drawer.

 

When men were men...

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Keys always reminds me of Hoggle from Labyrinth. Looks like a gnome with an oversized head, hairy palms, craggy face, and is a bad tempered, self serving, snivelling little backstabbing twat.

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If Jamie Redknapp has turned his back on Keys after that whole episode, Keys can hardly take the knock - you could see Redknapp was uncomfortable, cringing even when Keys gave it all the top bantz hanging out the back of wibble - that was a working environment and Keys was risking Redknapp’s reputation talking like that.

 

If anything, you wouldn’t be in the least bit surprised if he was pretending to playfully put Redknapp over as a swordsman but was really trying to get a competitive edge over a football personality by making him out as a bad player. 

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