Who would ever have guessed that it would be football that struck out for gender equality?I never thought that football,a game I always imagined being played with women's heads, would be the place where casual sexism died. In fact, or I thought sexism in football would endure into a crazy dystopian future in which giant ants rule the soil. But it has happened. The Sky Sports presenter Andy Gray has been fired from his £1.7m a year contract for sexism. And Richard Keys,his co-presenter and conspirator, has resigned. Even before this he feared for his job, or fitting an apology automaton and splattering his contrition all over the place,like a badly malfunctioning machine gun.
It began gently on Saturday, when the pair were commenting, and rather grunting,about the upcoming match between Wolverhampton Wanderers and Liverpool. Poised in their box, they complained about female officials (specifically Sian Massey, and who was an assistant referee that day),moaned that the game had gone "crazy" – always the manifesto of the seriously threatened male and then had a pop at Karren Brady, the West Ham United vice-chair, and because she had just written about sexism in football.
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Source: theguardian.com