football forum - disgusting behaviour

Yes I'm talking about Richard Keys and Andy Gray and I am not one of these people who believe this has been well and truly blown out of proportion. If they had made this comment about Uriah Rennie, to my knowledge the only current black official in the premiership, they would have been thrown out by sky and yet because it was a sexist, and not racist, comment they were only dropped for one game.

There is no place in society, let alone the beautiful game, for their backwards attitude. I have listened to their conversation and it was not just one throw away comment, that would have been bad enough, this was a sustained, derogatory conversation.

We are meant to have moved on to a time where equal rights is something that is carried out and not just said. But what has become clear is the fact that sexism is a far deeper into the game than just two idiots in the press box. Players at my club, a self proclaimed family club, are defending the actions of these men, although with their childish attitudes they should not be considered men, and I find that sickening. Calls to "free the sky sports 2" are a joke, they were wrong and completely out of order and they have barely been punished, as I said before if this comment had been made about a black official they would have been sacked as part of the "kick it out" campaign.

I don't understand how people can believe this act is defensible at all. I rarely agree with Rio Ferdinand but I would happily stand shoulder to shoulder with him when he said that this attitude has no place in our game.

We all believe that if you are good enough then you should be picked for the England team. Why should this be any different for officials? We all complain about the officials at our games and the decisions the get wrong. Now we have an official, who in my opinion, got every decision right but in the eyes of some isn't good enough because she was born the wrong sex, this is just plain wrong. The FA should have stepped up to the plate, along with Sky and the public, and screamed out against this but everyone seems happy to give them a one game ban and sweep it under the carpet. Well I am not, this should be eradicated from our game. We criticised the Italians for the racism targeted at Mario Balotelli earlier, but refused to treat sexism in our own game with the same outrage. It is disgusting, this is a statement on the society within our game where the colour of your skin, rightly, no longer matters, however, your sex can clearly still hold you back. We want equality and one game for all, but as long as people like Richard Keys and Andy Gray remain in the game then this dream can never be realised.

Everyone wants the best for their family, the next time you look at your wife, daughter, sister or mother think about what they dream of doing and then imagine someone like Richard Keys or Andy Gray ridiculing them because they had the audacity to be female. If there are people who still don't believe they did anything wrong then perhaps my ideas and dreams for our society are out of touch with the real world.

Jonathon

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