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Newell's controversial words

Championship Luton Town
by 606 Sport Hosts (U3702819) 11 November 2006
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Luton manager Mike Newell caused a stir after his side's loss to QPR by saying the following about assistant referee Amy Rayner:

"She should not be here. I know that sounds sexist, but I am sexist, so I am not going to be anything other than that.

"We have a problem in this country with political correctness, and bringing women into the game is absolutely beyond belief.

"It is bad enough with the incapable referees and linesmen we have, but if you start bringing in women, you have big problems.

"This is Championship football. This is not park football, so what are women doing here? It is tokenism for the politically-correct idiots."

What do you think of Newell's comments?

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posted Jun 14, 2007

and men never make that sort of mistake of course

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posted Jun 14, 2007

old father thames,

the point of this thread is to embrace sexism in all its glory and spread the word,

yes, male officials make mistakes but hey, britain had an empire before women were given the vote,

coincidence? no such thing as coincidence.

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posted Jun 14, 2007

I'm always a bit suspect about woman being involved with proper football. Why would they want to? What are they trying to prove? I couldn't take a female official seriously - it's an aggressive sport and I could certainly never crunch into a female player... I know this makes me sound like a dinosaur to some people but it's football.

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comment by Finn723 (U6728793)

posted Jun 14, 2007

The thing is you want to be refed by someone who knows what its like to be in the game and end of the day the mens and womens game are very different, its fair to say a man couldnt ref a womans game and a woman the mens

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comment by Cynic (U1752897)

posted Jun 22, 2007

That's right, before women were given the vote men were busy building an empire to exploit everybody they possibly could so they could. Hurrah for men. Hurrah hurrah hurrah.

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posted Jun 22, 2007

comment by Cynic
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That's right, before women were given the vote men were busy building an empire to exploit everybody they possibly could so they could. Hurrah for men. Hurrah hurrah hurrah.
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posted Apr 11, 2009

I was at school with Michael Newell, was in the cub scouts wiyh him. He was a good lad, I won't hear a word against him. Is no one allowed to speak their mind anymore?

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posted Apr 11, 2009

Not if they're spouting sexist nonsense.

sexist

adjective
1. discriminatory on the basis of sex (usually said of men's attitude toward women)

And what he said was.

Of course people can speak their minds, they always could, it's only more people speak up against out-dated, discriminatory, reactionary right-wing views these days. Isn't this a good thing?

I bet you're one of these people who bangs on about 'political correctness gone mad' a lot, whilst not really understanding quite what you're going on about.

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posted Apr 11, 2009

"I was at school with Michael Newell, was in the cub scouts wiyh him. He was a good lad, I won't hear a word against him. Is no one allowed to speak their mind anymore?"

How long did it take you to trawl through old the MBs to find this ancient thread?

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