Football pundit Ron Atkinson has resigned from ITV after making a racist comment about Marcel Desailly. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/tv_and_radio/3648051.stm
what did he say ? "I was one of the first managers to give black players a chance ?" thats is highlighted to the side in the article. If so how is that rascist ?
I think that's the case he is making in his defence, to show that he is not always discriminating against black players. I must say I'm quite suprised, I know he is old fashioned and says strange things sometimes, but in over 15 years of following football he never came across to me as a racist. Maybe a bit predjudiced about nationalities, but not skin colour.
If that's what he said (toms link), then he has ruined what has been a pretty good career Edit: On the other hand, if that's what he said then he doesn't deserve to have had a pretty good career.
Bit like Jim Bowen who quit showbiz after calling a black lady a 'nig nog' this is a lot worse though, can't believe he said that!
I'd love to know exactly what he said. Its probably something many of us would find as being normal but the way things are going today, the mention of a school blackboard causes mayhem. Hopefully the papers will get the correct words so we can make a proper judgement.
Oh, I think Ron dug himself a very big hole for himself. I don't know how the hell he managed to spit those words out.
Thank **** he's gone. Really, really annoying **** who annoyed me most by persistently refusing to pronounce foreign players names correctly, even after being told what the pronunciation was.
