I've heard the recordings too and I don't think there was much humour involved. The tone of Gray's and Keys' voices were quite nasty and sneering, in my opinion. They sounded genuinely annoyed about the temerity of having a female official taking part in a Premiership match.
It's easy for them to backtrack after the event and say they were joking but I'm afraid they've showed their true colours. This is the straw that broke the camel's back as far as Sky Sports were concerned. Remember they've had 'previous' when they were covering the Ladies FA Cup Final a few years back, taking the piss out of the quality of the play.
Is sexism as bad as racism? Ron Atkinson was sacked by ITV following his racist (off-air)comments about Marcel Desailly, I don't know anyone who condoned that, so why should Gray and Keys be any different?
As we used to sing back in the late 70's:
"Hark now hear the West Brom sing
A king is born today,
His name is Cyrille Regis
And he's better than Andy Gray". :twisted:
Oooohhh, Mrs B.
Count Desi and I in. It's my birthday on the 23rd. I'm <mumble> years old and we already booked that week off work.
Interesting to read some of the responses to this.
"Arty-farty nonsense... art for art's sake" says one. "Turner Prize... publicity hungry hypocrites" says another. Art is meant to be challenging. It's not just random silence. Each "performance" is meant to include the sounds of the surroundings in which it is played, so that birdsong, coughs, moving furniture etc are all included and therefore makes each "performance" individual and different. John Cage composed it in 1952 (so it predates rock n roll) and was influenced by Cage's interest in Zen Buddhism.
Why it was done is the same reason why Rage Against The Machine was done last year. As a protest to the bland, soulless warblings of Simon Bowel's ego massage that is The X Factor. RATM didn't exactly work as it was meant to though as they were/are signed to Bowel's record company so guess who made the money?
I support anything that will bloody Bowel's nose. He is slowly killing pop music with his glorified karaoke singers.
Sad to hear this. She was one of the few in the Mids room who actually spoke to me when I was a newbie.
RIP, Hun.
XXX
I saw The Power Of Nightmares a few years back. It was a brilliant documentary series on BBC about how the media and governments worldwide manipulate things to 'frighten' the general public.
One thing it said about Al Qaida was that it was invented by the US authorities in order to prosecute certain cases. Under the US constitution, certain crimes can only be investigated and brought to court if there is an "umbrella network" of "organised crime". The US created Al Qaida to include all muslim extremists regardless of how connected they were. The Mafia is exactly the same. They are all different "families". They have no connection to one another apart from them all hailing from Italy.
The idea of Bin Laden being in control of every muslim extremist terrorist cell is ludicrous. Especially when you bear in mind he lives in a cave in a remote part of Pakistan/Afghanistan.
Woo hoo.
Desi and self.
By hook or by crook, we'll be there. Desi going to threaten physical harm to folks at work to ensure we're there.
My birthday is 23rd Feb so mebbe's I can be included in the celebrations too.
Was:
Light Of Day, Day Of Darkness - Green Carnation. Prog metal perfection from Norway.
Now:
Chinese Democracy - Axl's All-Stars.
PINK FLOYD
Good:
The run of albums from Meddle throught to The Wall, with an honourable mention for The Division Bell.
Bad;
Rick Wright's death robbing us of a reunion.
Next subject:
Band reunions.
I saw my first set today.
Up and shining brightly in the window of a shop in SE London. The clocks haven't gone back yet. That means it's still technically Summer, FFS.
The way things are going, by 2025, Christmas will be a 12 month thing.
Fourth in the league.
Boing boing, yo bewtiful Baggies.
Disc 1 of Remasters - Led Zeppelin.
To obliterate the memory of that Godawful version of Whole Lotta Love inflicted upon the World by one of Simon Bowel's evil robot puppets tonight.
Was; The Director's Cut - Fantomas
Now; Black Cascade - Wolves In The Throne Room
Mondo Caine - Mike Patton.
Ex Faith No More singer goes Italian 60's pop on our asses.
Every Red Heart Shines Toward The Red Sun - Red Sparowes.
Going to see them live tomorrow. Yaaaaaaayyyyyyy!
Desi came in from work tonight and said she'd been watching it and wanted to see the end of the programme. She put it on and I was astounded to hear such tuneless wailing from these so-called future stars.
The problem I find with all of them is that they have all studied their Mariah Carey's Greatest Hits albums and have convinced themselves that endless caterwauling is what passes for singing. Each and every one of them oversings whatever song they attempt.
Sometimes, less is more. Listen to Art Garfunkel sing Bridge Over Troubled Water and hear arguably the best pop vocal performance of all time. He wouldn't get past the audition stage on Simon Bowel's ego-trip because he doesn't stretch a simple word like 'love' to 17 syllables.
Ruder Forms Survive - Capricorns
Altar by SunnO))) & Boris
CLT...
Blues For The Red Sun - Kyuss
Riff-tastic.
Currently listening to...
Still Life by Opeth.
to give us some pointers in the direction of some new good old fashioned Rock!